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)
  • Ronell: Intro and Ch1
  • Jost & Hyde: Editor’s Intro
  • [Extra, if you’re interested: JAC interview with Avital Ronell]

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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