PHIL 225

Power, Critique and Emancipation


Please note: this is archived course information from 2022 for PHIL 225.

Description

What is power? When are relations of power are legitimate and illegitimate? How is power structured in the modern world? How can illegitimate structures of power can be resisted and reordered to promote justice and human flourishing? This course examines and analyses cultural, economic, political and epistemic structures of power, including gender, race, and class.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for PHIL 225.

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2022

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Dr Matheson Russell

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

PHIL 225: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points in Philosophy or 60 points passed

Restrictions

PHIL 345