Deconstructing modernity

Teacher: Raphaël Pirenne

The course aims to examine the notion of modernity through the history of more or less recent thought, while opening up to certain forms (practical or theoretical) that enable it to be problematized. The course is divided into two parts. The first semester is based on group readings of texts, with limited groups of students able to choose one or more texts to work on during the semester from a proposed corpus or in discussion with the teacher. Groups can choose from texts by Agamben, Adorno, Habermas, Warburg, Greenberg, Fried, Clarck, Crow, Krauss, Latour, Descola, Bhabha and others. The second semester will be based on a paper to be presented at the end of the semester, based on a topic that has emerged during the reading of the texts, and leading the groups of students to problematize this topic on the basis of a field survey.