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Advanced seminar
WiSe 21/22: A Genealogy of the Human Mind – Tracing Intelligence Discourses from Locke to Neoliberalism
Maxi Katharina Albrecht, Thomas Howard
Information for students
This course can be taken as both MA interdisciplinary seminar and MA seminar in the discipline of culture. As of now, we are planning to teach this course live, barring any new restrictions because of the CoViD-pandemic. Should attending sessions in person not be possible for you, please send an email to maxi.albrecht@fu-berlin.de in the first week of October. close
Comments
Across US history, public, economic, and scholarly discourses engage questions as to the nature of human intelligence. These discourses contain a multitude of fractures and conflicts, ranging from the seemingly base question how to define intelligence in the first place, debates about a single form of intelligence or multiple forms, as well as a myriad of socio-culturally based discriminations with regard to questions of race, gender and class. These intelligence discourses stand in close relation to fundamental questions of human nature and the formation of hegemonic and marginalized subjectivities. This course will trace a genealogy of human intelligence discourses beginning with John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1695), a foundational text of the US-American liberal tradition. Topics include racial intelligence discourse, including the debate between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, feminist discourse and the integration of education, intelligence testing, and the multiple intelligence discourse of the late 20th century. Texts include psychological and sociological writing, nonfiction essays and treatises, and economic self-help literature, as well as consider new media. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2021-10-19 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-10-26 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-11-02 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-11-09 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-11-16 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-11-23 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-11-30 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-12-07 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2021-12-14 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-01-04 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-01-11 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-01-18 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-01-25 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-02-01 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-02-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2022-02-15 12:00 - 14:00