PHILOSOPHY AND GLOBALIZATION
- Course
- INRE621 - PHILOSOPHY AND GLOBALIZATION
- Department
- International Relations - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
The present PhD course has the aim to shed a light on the mutual critical relation between the philosophy and the globalization. The course will focus on today's and 20th century’s contemporary philosophers. In this respect we will cover the philosophies of Giorgio Agamben, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Slavoj Zizek, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière who all have at least an IDEA to argue against the currents of economic and political globalization. Whilst the globalization is mostly accepted as a channel for emancipation and freedom for the world societies, those philosophers find out the fragile imbalances within the global mechanisms and analyze through concepts the repressive core of the economic and political globalizations.
PHILOSOPHY AND GLOBALIZATION
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Course outcomes
- 01 Analyze globalization with a philosophical sight
- 02 Criticize the weaknesses of globalization
- 03 Find the ethical shortcomings of economic globalization
- 04 Evaluate the philosophical shortcomings in bringing solution to the crisis of globalisation.
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | An Introduction to the course; Analyze globalization with a philosophical sight |
| Week 2 | John Murphy - The Role of Philosophy in a Globalized World, True courage under financial occupation Slavoj ŽižekCriticize the weaknesses of globalization |
| Week 3 | Alain BADIOU - The Century - Find the ethical shortcomings of economic globalization |
| Week 4 | Alain Badiou - Century - Etienne BALIBAR - Civic Universalism and Its Internal ExclusionsEvaluate the ethical shortcomings of philosophy in bringing solution to the crisis of Globalization |
| Week 5 | 1) Democracies against Democracy - Jacques Ranciere in Democracy in what State 2) Democracy for Sale - Kristin Ross in Democracy in what State |
| Week 6 | 1) From Democracy to Divine Violence - Slavoj Zizek in Democracy in what State 2) Thinking the Event by Alain Badiou in Philosopy in the Present |
| Week 7 | 1) Philosophy is not a Dialogue - Slavoj Zizek in Philosophy in the Present2) Philosophical Principles as a Foundation of the Concept of Globalisation Zagorka Golubović |
| Week 8 | From philosophy of history to political philosophy: an ideological investigation of globalization Kuo-yang Tang |
| Week 9 | Imagination Sterilized: The Workings of the Global Spectacle Ruth Y. Y. Hung |
| Week 10 | Review |
| Week 11 | Final In class article analysis |
| Week 12 | - |
| Week 13 | - |
| Week 14 | - |
| Week 15 | - |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Democracy in what State , Badiou et. al. 2011 Columbia University Press
- 02 Philosophy in the Present ALAIN BADIOU and SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Polity Press, 2009
Learning Outcomes
- L01 his course aims to explore the persistant importance of philosophical thinking in today's globalized world
- L02 The differences between truth and reality, universal and global, thought and opinion will constitute the core of the discussions.
Program Outcomes
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