This seminar requires an application.
WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THIS COURSE AS OF AUGUST 22, 2011
The course aims at rethinking the articulation of “insurrection” and “constitution” in the trajectory of modern citizenship. It begins with a return to the conflicts between vindications and critiques of the “natural rights” declared by bourgeois revolutionaries, and finishes with a discussion of the perspectives of a “citizenship beyond the institution” opened by the contemporary crisis of the national, social and imperial State. A turning point will be provided by the critical discussion of Hannah Arendt’s statement of the “right to have rights” as a negative foundation of the political community.
