Inhalt
Kurzkommentar |
Registration Period: 17.02.-01.03.2020 (WUSEL)
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Kommentar |
Irreversible environmental damage, climate change, the accelerating destruction of ecosystems, and the resulting extinction of species all suggest the necessity to re-think our relation to the nonhuman world and to develop ways of acting that reflect our fundamental relationality as human animals. The lecture series will seek to engage with this challenge by exploring recent theories in the humanities that foster a reconsideration of traditional distinctions between human and nonhuman, notions of agency and rights, and, hence, humanity's ostensible place at the top of the tree of life.
Specifically, this course aims at a) providing an introduction to selected approaches, theories, and concepts that have contributed to the "more-than-human" turn in the humanities and b) engaging in a number of case studies that will explore how such a paradigm shift might bear on our readings of American literary texts and other cultural artefacts. Topics considered will include human-animal studies, critical plant studies, and interspecies entanglements, as well as notions of the Anthropocene, the posthuman, and new materialism. The lecture series will host a number of guest speakers who will share their own approaches and selected readings contributing to the "more-than-human" turn.
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Leistungsnachweis |
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2 LP: wahlweise Portfolio oder mündliche Prüfung
3 LP: 1. wahlweise Portfolio oder Klausur; und 2. 10 Min. mündliche Prüfung
4 LP: 1. wahlweise Portfolio oder Klausur; und 2. 15 Min. mündliche Prüfung |
Zielgruppe |
BA
PO 2015:
ANG-FG-C2, ANG-F-C3A und C, ANG-G-C3A und C, ANG-H-AC3A und C
Master
MEd (M-ENG8), MA: A/A (LIT 1), Kombi-MA (Z LIT, Z LIT 1a, Z Lit 1b), AVL |