Fall 2012: Humanism, Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology.
The debate opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” as ethical and epistemological discourses was especially virulent in the 60’s and 70’s in France and other European countries, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism, Hegelianism, even Analytical Philosophy, around such issues as the meaning of history and the agency of the individual and collective subject. I will trace back its genealogy and its dividing lines (or points of heresy) in order to better understand what was at stake in its progressive replacement by the current controversy on “universalism”, “relativism”, and “conflicting universalities”, and how we can assess its legacy in the emergence of a new anthropological discourse involving the universality of the differences themselves.
PLEASE NOTE: This seminar requires an application. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please send an email to Assistant Director Catherine LaSota by May 15, 2012 with the following information: -name -program and year -relevant courses taken -a couple of sentences explaining interest in the course
