授業の目的 【日本語】
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | By the end of the course, students should be able to
1. understand the nature and aims of critical theory;
2. evaluate for themselves its usefulness in contemplating the concept of justice;
3. comprehend critical-theory texts with greater ease than at the beginning of the course;
4. work in a nuanced way with ideas in literature;
5. reflect on the concept of justice and the representation of justice in fictional works;
6. juxtapose theoretical and literary texts;
7. see improvement in their ability to spot and dissect weak argumentation and to create strong argumentation of their own. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | | As the field of critical theory developed in the late 1930s, its purpose was to identify cultural practices and institutional norms in need of reform, and to challenge them in hopes of bringing about the desired change. In this course, we concentrate on a central concern in critical theory: the question of justice. We shall examine several prominent works of critical theory in tandem with literary texts that are also fundamentally about the nature of justice and which can therefore be placed in meaningful dialogue with the theorists’ ideas. Examples of topics to be covered: competing visions of law and justice; technologies of punishment; the ‘unseen woman’ in the eyes of the law; and the limits of righteous rebellion, or ‘How might a quest for justice become unjust?’ Among the literary works we study are Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone; Heinrich von Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas; and Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony.” In addition, we watch the 1992 film The Story of Qiu Ju. Critical theorists to be discussed include Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, and Simone de Beauvoir. |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | 10% Participation in discussion
10% Brief presentation
30% Midterm essay
50% Final paper |
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教科書・テキスト
Textbook | | | All required materials will be made available to students. |
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参考書
Reference Book | | | Details to be provided in class. |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | | Students will be required to undertake reading and writing assignments outside of class. |
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履修取り下げ制度（利用の有無）学部のみ
Course withdrawal | | If you submit the Course Withdrawal Form by the deadline, "W(Absence)" will be given in principle. Otherwise the grade will be "F" unless you meet the passing criteria.
『履修取り下げ届』を期日までに提出した場合は原則「Ｗもしくは欠席」となりますが、同届を提出しない場合は成績評価が行われ、合格基準に達しない場合は「Ｆ」となります。 |
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備考
Others | | |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | B-3）Face-to-face course（Including some remote classes using both simultaneous interactive and on-demand methods)
※The number of remote classes must be less than 7 out of 15 classes. |
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