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This course familiarizes participants with central texts in contemporary feminist and queer theory. We will read, discuss and engage with selections by Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Jack Halberstam, Maria Lugones and Claudia Rankine. Many of these theorists, directly or indirectly, refer to philosophic concepts such as those addressed by the German Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin. We will therefore also examine a few philosophic echoes of these contemporary feminist and queer voices in 20th century German philosophy.