生命政治
授課：朱元鴻
東海大學社研所
Biopolitics
2013 Fall
Thursday 2:10-5:00
Room SS 304
Course Outline
9/12
調至 10/7（Monday）補課
9/19
Mid-Autumn Festival
9/26
Course Introduction (class will meet at 7:10 pm)
Topic 1: Animal and Man
10/3
Ontogenesis of the vital and psychical: a history of ideas
Gilbert Simondon, Two Lessons on Animal and Man, pp. 7-55.
10/7
補課 (Make up class for 9/12)
Gilbert Simondon, Two Lessons on Animal and Man, pp. 57-88.
10/10
National Day
10/17
Umwelt
Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, pp. 41-135.
10/24
Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, pp.139-208.
10/31
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Georges Canguilhem, “The Living and Its Milieu,” Knowledge of Life, pp. 98-120.
Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal, pp. 39-62.
Topic 2: the Normal and the Pathological
11/7
Emile Durkheim, “Rules for the Distinction of the Normal from the Pathological,”
The Rules of Sociological Method, pp. 85-107.
Georges Canguilhem, “The Normal and the Pathological”, “Monstrosity and the
Monstrous,” Knowledge of Life, pp. 121-146.
11/14
Diseases, Health, Cure, Regulation in the Organism and in Society
Georges Canguilhem, Writings on Medicine, pp. 34-78.
11/21
Michel Foucault, “Introduction” to Georges Canguilhem The Normal and the
Pathological, pp. 7-24.
Georges Canguilhem The Normal and the Pathological, pp. 233-273.
Topic 3: Eugenics vs. Humans as Vulnerable and Dependent
Animal
11/28
Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance, pp. 177-214.
Pierre Bourdieu, “Advocating a ‘Genethics’” Foreword to Troy Duster, Backdoor to
Eugenics, pp. vii-viii.
Troy Duster, Backdoor to Eugenics, pp. 95-131.
Film: Erbkrank (1936) 23’41’’
12/5
Alasdair Macintyre, Dependent Rational Animals, pp. 1-19; 43-51; 81-146.
Film:《楢山節考》
Topic 4: Biopower, Biopolitics
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12/12
Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France
1975-1976, pp. 239-263.
Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France
1977-1978, pp. 311-361.
12/19
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France
1978-1979, pp. 129-213.
12/26
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France
1978-1979, pp. 215-316.
1/2
Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the
Twenty-First Century, pp. 155-223.
1/9
Term Paper Proposal (one page) discussion, Potluck Party
Course Requirements
1. Class participation and discussion: 50% of the grade.
2. Term paper: 50% of the grade. If written in English, print in double space, about
20 pages.
課程要求
課堂引言與討論參與占學期成績 50%。約一萬字的學期研究報告，占學期成績
50%。
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