History 290 Spring 2004 Mark Poster KH230

History 200C Foucault and History Spring 2007 = Mark Poster Office KH230

Time: 4-7pm = Room KH 126

&= nbsp; &nbs= p; &= nbsp; Required Texts for History 200C

Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose, eds., The= Essential Foucault (The New Press)
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Pantheon)

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexualit= y, Vol.1 (Pantheon)

Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended (Picador)

Michel Foucault, Abnormal (Pica= dor)

Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject (Palgrave)

Michel Foucault, “Different Spaces= 221; (Electronic Reserve)

Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” (Electronic Reserve)

Seminar Topics and Reading Assignment= s

April 2 Introduction: History and Theory in a Postmodern Age

April 9 Foucault and the History of= the Self

“What is Enlightenment?”= ; “What is Critique?” and “What Is An Author?” in The Essential Foucault , pp. 43-57, 263-278, 377-391

Foucaul= t and Poststructuralism

= “Truth and Power,” and “Nietzsche, Genealogy and History,” in The Essential Foucault, pp. 300-318, 351-369 and Society Mu= st Be Defended, pp. 1-42

April 23 Foucault and Poststructuralism II

= “Governmentality,” “Questions of Method,” and “The Subject and Power,”= in The Essential Foucault pp. 229-258, 126-144

Foucault, “Different Spaces”

April 30 Foucault on Language and Action

Foucault, Discipline and Punish, pp. 1-169

May 7 F= oucault and Surveillance

Foucault, Discipline= and Punish, pp. 170-325

Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies”

May 14 Foucault and the His= tory of Sex

Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1

May 21 Foucault and Ethics

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= “Technologies of the Self,” “Genealogy of Ethics,” and “Ethics of Concern of the Self as Freedom,” in The Essential Foucault, pp. 145-169, 102-125, 25-42

= Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject=

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May 28 Holiday (No Class) <= /p>

June 4 Foucault and the History of= Race and the History of Psychiatry

= “The Birth of Biopolitics” and “Security, Territory, Population̶= 1; in The Essential Foucault, pp. = 202-207, 259-262

= Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, at le= ast Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 11

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= Recommended: Foucault, Abnormal and Foucault= , Psychiatric Power

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Writing Assignments<= /b>

There will be one paper (15 to 20 typewritten= and double spaced pages) due at the end of the quarter in which you will be ask= ed to explore some aspect of Foucault’s writing. This may focus on your = own research project when that it appropriate. Papers are due June 13^{th,
noon, in my mailbox.}