Rhetoric and Hermeneutics Schedule

The Setup: 
Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and (the Failure of) Cognition

Week 1 (1/15)  Intro to course and each other.

  • Sign up for the listserv
  • Read (for next week)

Week 2 (1/22)

  • Due: Talking Points (1)
  • Read
    • Jost & Hyde: Gadamer (both), Mailloux, Leff, Shrag, Ricoeur
    • ++Heidegger (from Being and Time)

Week 3 (1/29)

  • Due: Talking Points (2)
  • Read
    • Ormiston and Schrift: Nietzsche, Foucault, Kristeva, Derrida
    • Ronell: Chp 2

Week 4 (2/5)

  • Due: Paper 1 (orally in the first half of class; hard copy by Thursday)
  • Read
    • ++de Man: “Autobiograph as Defacement,” “Wordsworth and the Victorians” “Concept of Irony”
    • Ronell: Chpt 3

Rhetoric Refigured as a Function of Language

Week 5 (2/12)

  • Due: Talking Points (3)
  • Read
    • Ballif

Week 6 (2/19)

  • Due: Talking Points (4)
  • Read
    • Vitanza: Intro – Ch 3

Week 7 (2/26)

  • Due: Talking Points (5)
  • Read
    • Vitanza: Ch 4 – end

Hermeneutics Refigured as Hermeneia

Week 8 (3/5)

  • Due: Paper 2 (orally in the first half of class; hard copy by Thursday)
  • Read
    • Heidegger: On the Way to Language (Dialogue)
    • Ronell: Wordsworth Satelite
    • [For over-achievers–Ormiston and Schrift: Nancy]

Week 9 (3/12) no class – Spring Break

Week 10 (3/19) no class – 4Cs

Week 11 (3/26)

  • Due: Talking Points (6)
  • Read
    • Derrida: Of Hospitality
    • ++Mailloux: “Making Comparisons”
    • ++Star Trek: Next Generation. (Darmok episode)–I’ll either put the tape on reserve in the library or arrange a little video night with you all to view this episode together before the next class.

Rhetoric and Ethics; Or, Approaching the Other as Other

Week 12 (4/2)

  • Due: Paper 3 (orally in the first half of class; hard copy by Thursday)
  • Read
    • ++Levinas: “Rhetoric without Eloquence” and “Enigma and Phenomenon”
    • ++Blanchot: from The Infinite Conversation

Week 13 (4/9)

  • Due: Talking Points (7)
  • Read
    • Levinas: Otherwise than Being, Ch 1-2
    • Ronell: Ch 4, parts 1-2

Week 14 (4/16)

  • Due: Talking Points (8)
  • Read
    • Levinas: Otherwise than Being, Ch 3-4
    • Ronell: Ch 4, part 3

Week 15 (4/23)

  • Due: Talking Points (9)
  • Read
    • Levinas: Otherwise than Being, Ch 5-6
    • Ronell: Kant Satelite

Week 16 (4/30)

  • Due: Paper 4 (orally in the first half of class; hard copy by Friday)
  • Course evals, wrap up

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