Cultures of Criticism from The Classics to Foucault
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From fault-finding to the crossover of aesthetic and political judgment, criticism never loses sight of its medical cognates critical and crisis. This course examines the emergence and the transformations of critical judgment in the arts, culture and politics, from the early days of its collusion with French monarchical propaganda, to the critical genealogies of the Enlightenment, to the postrevolutionary critique of history, to Foucault’s critique of practices of veridiction. Works by Perrault, Bayle, Diderot, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Cassirer, Koselleck, Derrida, Barthes, Bourdieu, Foucault. Taught in English; most texts available in translation, but knowledge of French recommended.
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