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The modern world was born out of Revolution. To this day, dramatic political change is most often the result of Revolution. This course will explore how Revolution became a model for changing the course of history. From the English revolutions of the 1600's to the current upheavals in the Arab world, passing through the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions, we will study how Revolution has been conceived, carried out, and re-invented around the world.

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.

The myth of the feminine idol in French films in historical and cultural context. The mythology of stars as the imaginary vehicle that helped France to change from traditional society to modern nation after 1945. Filmmakers include Renoir, Truffaut, and Nelly Kaplan. The evolution of the role of women in France over 60 years. Lectures in English; films in French with English subtitles. This course must be taken for either 3 units or 5 units; cannot be taken for 4 units.

Medieval love, satirical and Crusade lyrics in the Old Occitan, and Old French traditions. Focus on deictic address, corporeal subjectivity, the female voice, love debates, and the body as a figure of political conflict. Also modern translation and reception of the troubadour tradition. Poets include Ovid, Bernart de Ventadorn, Bertran de Born, La Comtessa de Dia, Thibaut de Champagne, Sordello, Dante, Pound, and Neruda.

The body as locus for desire, pleasure, disease, mortality, sexuality, and gender; and as canon of beauty and reflection of cosmic harmony. How literature responded to the development of an anatomical gaze in arts and medicine; how it staged the aesthetic, religious, philosophical, and moral issues related to such a promotion or deconstruction of the body. Does literature aim at representing the body, or use it as signifier for intellectual, emotional, and political ideas? Readings from Rabelais, Ronsard, Labé, Montaigne; medical texts and archival documents from http://renaissancebodyproject.stanford.edu.

Introduction to the premodern period of French literature through the interpretation of canonical works (La Chanson de Roland; Béroul and Thomas, Tristan; selected lais of Marie de France; selected romans of Chrétien de Troyes; Le Roman de la Rose). Special attention will be given to the socio-cultural contexts in which these works were composed and first received, and to the emergence of the concept of writing as a self-defining act. We will study Old French language and the material aspects of a medieval work.

A comprehensive and yet focused introduction to the work and life of the French 18th-century philosophe who undoubtedly had the strongest impact on posterity (occasionally comparing Rousseau with two other key-figures of French Enlightenment, Voltaire and Denis Diderot). Special attention will be paid to Rousseau¿s reception history ¿ both as the inventor of new concepts and discourses (eg. "vertu persécutée") that have shaped our understanding of social life up until the present day, and on a new type of "sensibilité" mainly based on the capacity of compassion (pitié). This seminar, in its concluding sessions, will explore aspects of an aesthetic and political genealogy of our time.

A confrontation between ways of accounting for society in an individualistic framework: the social contract; political economy; individualistic sociology; society as crowd; mass psychology; and sociopolitical institutions. Creating a typology of the ways in which a given anthropology constrains conceptions of the social and political order. Writers include Rousseau, Hume, Smith, Constant, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud.

This course will present majors French authors whose work have help to create Literary and Drama Theory in America. Among the authors we will devote a special interest to the work of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. Paralellism between the interpretation of drama and the interpretation of painting will constitute the core of this course.