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Course 906:Writing Heuristics
Course Instructor: Milind Wakankar
The aim of this course is to reflect on the genesis of
concepts. We will seek to understand this genesis as a problem for thought,
since concepts quickly loose their exotic nature once they are assimilated into
accepted notions of knowledge. More strictly, the problem lies in the temporal
immediacy of emergent concepts, which is to say the difficulty of apprehending and describing them in their moment. What is
the language one would use to tackle this problem? We will attend to some
important philosophical trajectories at the moment when they are poised on the
brink of an epistemological breakthrough, at a point that is fecund and
generative of future developments in both philosophy proper and in the social
sciences. This is where you can juxtapose this material to your own work not
only to reflect on the process by which you have arrived at your current
understanding of your project, but also to see how you can push all that is
incipient in your thought toward that threshold where it will generate new
concepts and ideas. We will begin in the first class with a discussion of your
projects: please summarize your basic ideas in three to four sentences,
focusing on the key question that motivates you. Over the next few sessions we
will try to see how this question can serve to irradiate the specific set of
texts you have chosen. This way we can map the disciplinary or methodological
contexts against which you will come to define your work.
Week One
Aristotle, Nicomachean
Ethics, Book Six, Chapter Six. Link found here
Week Two
Walter Benjamin, ‘Epistemo-Critical Preface’ to The Origin of German Tragic Drama.Link found here
Week Three
Hegel, The Difference between Fichte and
Schelling’s System of Philosophy (Selection) Link found here
Week Four
James T. Siegel, Naming the Witch (Selection) Link found here
Week Five
Nietzsche, Writings from the Late Notebooks (Section
on the ‘Will to Power’) Link
Week Six
Heidegger, ‘The
Question Concerning Technology’ Link found here