PRESENTATIONS: 1. Presentations must be five pages typed, double spaced. 2. Presentations will answer a specific question. 3. Presentations must also include a complete bibliography (not part of the five pages of text). 4. The presentation must have a clear thesis (first page), argument supporting the thesis, and conclusion. 5. Students must bring two hard copies of the presentation to class on the day they are due. 6. The presentation topic will be chosen by the student, in consultation with the professor. The presentation topic will be chosen from a contemporary political, aesthetic, ethical issue. The student will then use postmodern sources to critique the issue.
SAMPLE TOPICS:
Identify Politics – Benhabib http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/benhabib-seyla/uneasy-alliance.htm Why are postmodernism and identity politics uncomfortable together? What is the space of abjection?
Death in Being and Time – Heidegger How is death a possible solution to the postmodern muddle?
Nietzsche on Science--How is Nietzsche’s claim about science an attack on modernism?
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