French Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Pre-requisites: Student should be previously introduced to the key tendencies in contemporary philosophy.

Course objectives: Introduction to key intentions of these directions in contemporary philosophy, with their inspiration in structural linguistics, their importance for orientation in the discussions on modernism and postmodernism.

Course description: Incentives from structural linguistics and semiology; idea of sign structure and its relation to genetic and historical research; idea of differentiality, critique of essentialism, criticism of traditional conception of self-reflexive and self-identical subject; genealogical and deconstructivistic critique of the ruling forms of rationality and their significance for postmodernistic critiques of mind; criticism of the ruling economy of sign; the idea of simulation and its importance for critical analysis of contemporary mass-media and information culture.

Learning Outcomes: Mastering the methods of structural analysis, and learning about the capabilities of their application in different theoretical contexts (philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, critique of ideology

Literature/Reading:

• Majer V., Strukturalizam, Beograd, 1976. (R/KDA)
• Levi-Stros K., Divlja misao, Beograd, 1966, str.35-70; 123-162. (R/KDA)
• Altise L., Za Marksa, Beograd, 1971, str.85-127; 141-199. (R/KDA)
• Lakan Ž., Spisi, Beograd, 1983, str.15-110; 149-188; 269-308. (R/KDA)
• Fuko M., Volja za znanje, Beograd, 1982. (R/KDA)
• Derrida J., O gramatologiji, Sarajevo, 1976, str.9-132. (R/KDA)
• Liotar Ž.F., Postmoderno stanje, Novi Sad, 1988. (R/KDA)
• Delez Ž., Gatari F., Anti-Edip, Novi Sad, 1991, str. 5-40; 242-262. (R/KDA)
• Bodrijar Ž., Simbolička razmena i smrt, Gornji Milanovac, 1991, Str.9-99; 233-261. (R/KDA)
• Habermas J., Filozofski diskurs moderne, Zagreb, 1988, str.7-26; 83-1o3; 153-201; 226-277.
• Sosir F., Opšta lingvistika, Beograd, 1969, str.3-50; 83-119; 123-162.
• Bart R., Književnost, mitologija, semiologija, Beograd, 1971, str181-188; 263-314; 317-389.
• Althusser L., «Ideologija i državni ideološki aparati», Marksizam u svetu, 7-8/ 1979, str.77-119.
• Althusser L., «Lenjin i filozofija», Ideje, 3-4/7970, str.183-227.
• Althusser., «Je li jednostavno biti marksist u filozofiji?» u Čemu još filozofija, Zagreb, 1978.
• Lakan Ž., «O strukturi kao inmikstovanju drugosti, što je pretpostavka svakog subjekta» u Strukturalistička kontroverza, Beograd, 1988, 219-229.
• Miler Ž.A., «Uvod u čitanje Ž.Lakana», «El piropo», «Elementi epistemologije», Treći program, 68/1986, str.207-256.
• Althusser l., «Freud i Lacan», Marksizam u svetu, 1/1979, str.197-217.
• Žižek S., Znak, označitelj, pismo, Beograd, 1976, str.5-173.
• Fuko M., «Strukturalizam i poststrukturalizam», Treći program, 60/1984, str.152-176
• Derida Ž., Razgovori, Novi Sad, 1993.
• Derida Ž., «Struktura, znak i igra u diskursu humanističkih nauka» u Strukturalistička kontroverza, Beograd, 1988, str.289-309.