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Victor J. Vitanza
Biography | Lectures | Bibliography | Resources | Links
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Course I |
Course II Course III Top |
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CYBER, VIRTUAL, AND HYPERREAL CULTURES (2 credit workshop)
Stressing the need for reassessment, these three conceptual starting places and the complicated differences among them will be explored as the grounds for 'other' than the so-called real.
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Vitanza, Victor J. (ed). CyberReader. 2/e. Allyn & Bacon. Boston, August 1998, 528 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 0205290868. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Virilio, Paul. Open Sky Verso Books, New York and London. (August 1997) 144 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 1859841813. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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Course II |
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THE COMING COMMUNITY (3 credits)
An introduction to the political philosophy, anthropology, and aesthetics of Giorgio Agamben. A questioning of how subjectivity (agency, identity) "thwarts" a discovery of community, with special focus on "whatever beings" or "singularities."
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Course III |
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EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PRE-PLATONIC OR PRE-SOCRATIC FRAGMENTS? (2 credit workshop)
The workshop will provide a user's guide to select fragments attributed to Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaximander, Protagoras, Zeno, and Gorgias (the older sophist) and demonstrate how Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Milan Kundera appropriated the texts differently.
Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Friedrich Nietzsche, Marianne Cowan, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. Paperback, 117 pages, Regnery Publishing, ISBN: 0895267101. Buy it at Amazon.com.
Martin Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking. Paperback: 144 pages, Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN: 0060638427. Buy it at Amazon.com.
Kundera, Milan. Immortality. Paperback, 352 pages, Perennial. ISBN: 0060932384. Buy it at Amazon.com.
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