Avital Ronell - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures
FINITUDE IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE AND ART (3 credits)
In a culture of absence, disappearance and escape, the finitude of language and the singularity of the ethical event are explored in relation to memory, fiction, and the human.
I. STUPIDITY
Marx — the fourth world force
Rousseau — the fifth reverie, foundation of self
Kant — the dynamic sublime, the mathematical sublime
II. TRAUMA
Withdrawal of being — the residue left behind
Mourning — between absence and presence
The 'Space Between' — what you are, what you are intended to be
The Teaching Process & Trauma
The Process — Denial, Disavow, Reality Testing
The Response — Repeat, Get On, Get Over
III. FRIENDSHIP
Recindability — 'Testing Your Love or Breaking Up'
Rhythm — failutre to meet it's end
Betrayal — the good & the bad
Couples — the example of Abraham & Isaac
Death & Friendship
IV. FORGIVENESS
Memory & Forgetting
Wrongdoing / the Irreparable
Accusing a Collectivity
Grace
V. TESTING — AN ENDLESS ERASURE OF 'WHAT IS'
The Actual vs. the Possible
Mistrust vs. Faith
Destruction & Devastation