主體研究

The course will try to map out, within a limited timespan, a trajectory of the critical reflections on the subjectival momentum or inertia in the past few decades of western thought. The reading and discussion will focus on the tracks covered with the subjectival imprints of language, politics, representation, and, later on, of something bigger and harder than subject itself, something, however, a new way of thinking subject cannot do without. n.b. the course lecture will be delivered in mandarin.

1. Intro 2. Julia Kristeva, pp.21-45 3. Julia Kristeva, pp.46-61, 68-72, 86-89 4. Louis Althusser, pp.127-158 5. Louis Althusser, pp.159-186 6. Alan Badiou, pp.21-31 7. Judith Butler, pp.49-64 8. Claude Levi-Strauss, pp.186-205 9. Mid-term 10. Jean Baudrillard, pp.1-26 11. optional 12. Quentin Meillassoux, pp.3-24 13. Holiday 14. Quentin Meillassoux, pp.24-42 15. Catherine Malabou, pp.1-42 16. Catherine Malabou, pp.42-82 17. Holiday 18. Final

Weekly in-class oral report with written outline and critique 30% Mid-term exam and/or project 30% Final project 40%

(all the books will later appear on the library’s reserved shelf) Julia Kristeva, *Revolution in Poetic Language.* Louis Althusser, *Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.* Alan Badiou and Judith Butler, articles in *What is a People?* Claude Levi-Strauss, *Structural Anthropology.* Jean Baudrillard, *Simulations.* Quentin Meillassoux, *Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction.* (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt189tts8?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Science&searchText=Fiction&searchText=and&searchText=Extro-Science&searchText=Fiction&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DScience%2BFiction%2Band%2BExtro-Science%2BFiction%26amp%3Bfilter%3D&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A02f9f57e59b26020c0029b1ae894f31a) Catherine Malabou, *What Should We Do with Our Brain?* (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1c5chvm?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=What&searchText=Should&searchText=We&searchText=Do&searchText=with&searchText=Our&searchText=Brain%3F&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DWhat%2BShould%2BWe%2BDo%2Bwith%2BOur%2BBrain%253F&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A1e92f4fe80fe1fe534145bd2c5e56074)