Seeking Stillness or The Sound of Wings: Scholarly and Artistic Comment on Art, Truth, and Society in Honour of Lambert Zuidervaart (ed. Héctor Acero Ferrer, Michael DeMoor, Peter Enneson, Matthew Klaassen), 2021
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In this course, we will take our cue from the phenomenological notion of “world” and the fundamental human condition of “being-in-the-world.” We will explore the phenomenological themes that support the development of a critical orientation to the historically entrenched problems of social life, and we will investigate some of those problems, focusing especially on themes of race, colonization, gender, and sexuality. We will build our phenomenological foundation primarily with the help of Merleau-Ponty, though we will also refer to specific studies by Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Husserl, Gadamer, and Russon. Our study of specific social and political problems will be guided by the work of figures such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. Du Bois, Saba Mahmood, Iris Marion Young, and Gayle Salamon.