THE PHILOSOPHY OF BODY

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Learning Outcomes

1. Can analyze the conceptualizations of the body throughout the history of philosophy.
1.1. Can explain the mind-body dualism in the traditions of Plato, Descartes, and classical philosophy. 1.2. Can discuss the historical foundations of the body's secondary/negative positioning. 1.3. Can identify the key transformations in the reconceptualization of the body in modern and contemporary philosophy.
1.2. Can discuss the historical foundations of the body's secondary/negative positioning. 1.3. Can identify the key transformations in the reconceptualization of the body in modern and contemporary philosophy.
1.3. Can identify the key transformations in the reconceptualization of the body in modern and contemporary philosophy.
2. Can critically evaluate key philosophers’ conceptions of the body in a comparative framework.
2.1. Can explain Spinoza’s unity of body and mind. 2.2. Can analyze Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of embodied perception. 2.3. Can interpret the notions of intensity, desirability, and fragmentation of the body in Deleuze and Artaud.
2.2. Can analyze Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of embodied perception. 2.3. Can interpret the notions of intensity, desirability, and fragmentation of the body in Deleuze and Artaud.
2.3. Can interpret the notions of intensity, desirability, and fragmentation of the body in Deleuze and Artaud.
3. Can discuss the political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of the body in philosophical discourse.
3.1. Can analyze the role of the body within power relations through Butler. 3.2. Can critically evaluate the body as normed, gendered, and racialized. 3.3. Can reflect on the place of the body in aesthetic experience through Artaud and performance theory.
3.2. Can critically evaluate the body as normed, gendered, and racialized. 3.3. Can reflect on the place of the body in aesthetic experience through Artaud and performance theory.
3.3. Can reflect on the place of the body in aesthetic experience through Artaud and performance theory.
4. Can relate the concept of the body to phenomenological, poststructuralist, and posthumanist thought.
4.1. Can explain the body’s relation to the world in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. 4.2. Can interpret Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the “body without organs” within a poststructuralist context. 4.3. Can evaluate posthumanist debates on the body with reference to thinkers like Haraway and Braidotti.
4.2. Can interpret Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the “body without organs” within a poststructuralist context. 4.3. Can evaluate posthumanist debates on the body with reference to thinkers like Haraway and Braidotti.
4.3. Can evaluate posthumanist debates on the body with reference to thinkers like Haraway and Braidotti.
5. Can conceptualize the body within cultural, social, and technological contexts.
5.1. Can explore the relationship between the body and social categories such as gender, race, and class. 5.2. Can discuss the shifting boundaries of the body in relation to digitalization and technology. 5.3. Can develop a critical perspective on contemporary philosophical and cultural representations of the body.
5.2. Can discuss the shifting boundaries of the body in relation to digitalization and technology. 5.3. Can develop a critical perspective on contemporary philosophical and cultural representations of the body.
5.3. Can develop a critical perspective on contemporary philosophical and cultural representations of the body.