HEN639 Human identity in the environmental discourse of power

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Horák, CSc. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Bc. Petra Burišková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Mon 13:30–15:00 U33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main targets of this course:
A. The philosophical approach to the problem of identity in the discourse of power.
B. Some concrete cases of this problem.
C. Enhance the students to the independant study of this problem on the bases of the recomended texts.

The structure of the courses: What is the discourse of power? What has to do in it the individual identity? What is the difference between the individual and the collective identity? Why is necessary to link together the philosophy, the history and the social anthropology in the effort to elucidade these questions?
Syllabus
  • From Montaigne to Foucault, the search of the identity of the self
Literature
    recommended literature
  • • DESCOMBES, Vincent, Exercices d´humanité. Paris, Les petits Platons 2013, ISBN 978-2-36165-037-7
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Archeologie vědění. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2002, 318 s. info
  • • FOUCAULT, Michel, Slova a věci. Z francouzského originálu přeložil Jan Rubáš. Brno, Computer Press, 2007. ISBN 9788025117132
  • • FOUCAULT, Michel, The Essentials Foucault. Selection from Essentials work of Foucault, 1954 – 1984, edited by Paul Rabinow and Nicolas Rose. New York, New Press 2003. ISBN 1565848284
  • GELLNER, Ernest André. Jazyk a samota : Wittgenstein, Malinowski a habsburské dilema. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2005, 247 s. ISBN 8073250551. info
  • GELLNER, Ernest. Rozum a kultura :historická úloha racionality a racionalismu. Translated by Eva Musilová. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 1999, 188 s. ISBN 80-85959-44-5. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Je třeba bránit společnost : kurs na Collège de France 1975-1976. Edited by Alessandro Fontana - François Ewald - Mauro Bertani, Translated by Pe. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 2005, 281 s. ISBN 8070072210. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Zrození biopolitiky : kurz na Collège de France (1978-1979). Edited by Michel Senellart - François Ewald - Alessandro Fontana, Translated by. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2009, 351 s. ISBN 9788073251819. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion, reading texts
Assessment methods
Discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught last offered.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014.
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