GLOA 450: Topics in Global Affairs

GLOA 450-004: Islamophbia,Antisemitsm,Questn
(Fall 2017)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R

Section Information for Fall 2017

Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and the European Question
 
What are the cultural and historical roots of modern Islamophobia and Orientalism? What are its shared origins with the history of modern European anti-Semitism? How might their overlapping connections with the history of modern Europe raise fundamental questions about the identity of Europe, the European, and the Question of Europe?   In what way, too, does the tendency to separate the public discussion of Islamophobia from European anti-Semitism demand that we rethink the relationship between both Jews and Arabs as well as the so-called Muslim Question with the European Question instead?
 
Taking Edward Said’s classic Orientalism as our starting point, this seminar will explore the way Said’s classic text posits the shared origins of the history of modern Orientalism with the history of modern anti-Semitism.  Reading Said’s text alongside the work of some of the most formidable intellectual exiles in the twentieth century—Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and Erich Auerbach—this seminar explores how their major works—Dialectic of EnlightenmentThe Origins of Totalitarianism, Mimesis, and Orientalism—negotiate the histories of modern Orientalism and European anti-Semitism in the context of their experience of exile in America and elsewhere.  The seminar ultimately invites students to grasp how the exilic experiences of Jews and Arabs belong to the same human history, raising fundamental questions about the underlying assumptions against which European (as well Western) identity defines itself and others.   Additional readings in Giorgio Agamben, Jean Améry, Gil Anidjar, Judith Butler, Mahmoud Darwish, Primo Levi, W. G. Sebald, among others. 
 
Also offered as GLOA 599-004

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Credits: 1-3

Selected topics in global affairs. Content varies. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different.May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 9 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: GLOA 101 or SOCI 120.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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