Relating two thinkers
Since you have provided me a great work last time in such a short time and you seem to have some knowledge in philosophy/sociology/critical thinking areas, I am
trusting you again this time. This is a paper for same course as last time, but not a concession essay. The instructions are written below. I have attached two
documents, each with different thinkers’ quotes that you have to pull out for this essay. They may help you to form an argument and pull out ideas. Just like the last
one you wrote, please use some quotes from the documents provided and you have to pick two theorists this time, with one that needs to come from one of the documents
I’ve attached.
Instructions:
For this assignment, you will write a 2-3 page paper in which you engage the work of TWO theorists we have discussed. The idea here is to think of new ideas that only
emerge when two lines of thought are brought together. Pick two theorists who are talking about the same thing, similar things, or things that are conceptually
contiguous. Then, you want to put those two theorists into conversation and reveal how some new observation can be generated from the two theorists’ ideas. That is to
say, you must instruct the reader in how and why he or she is to understand the dialogue between these two theorists in a productive and generative way and why that
specific way of understanding it is important. Of all the assignments so far, this one is perhaps the broadest and yet the most difficult. You need to make sure you
pick your theorists carefully and that you are laser specific when it comes to identifying the key points on which to bring them together. You are not arguing that
one or the other is correct. You are not doing comparison and contrast. Instead, you are trying to use the scholarship in front of you as an engine for generating
something new.
At least one of these theorists underlined must be used (can use both)
Week 1: New Historicism (Foucault)
Week 2: Cultural Studies / New Historicism / Postcolonial Theory I (Said)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. < “Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times” (1988)
Bell Hooks, “Postmodern Blackness” (1990)
Week 5: Feminist / Queer Theories (Woolf/Rich)
Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Adrienne Rich, from Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980; 1986)
Week 6 Feminist / Queer Theories (Butler)
These thinkers from earlier session are recommended
Marxism / History / Materialism (Marx)
Raymond Williams, “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory”
Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious (1981)
Psychoanalysis (Freud)
Structuralism (Saussure)
Poststructuralism / Deconstruction (Derrida)
Structuralism (Lévi-Strauss and Barthes)
Symptoms of Passage ~ Modernism Postmodernism (Adorno)
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