Continental Philosophy and IR - JPM717

• Title: Continental Philosophy and IR
• Guaranteed by: Department of International Relations (23-KMV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2019 to 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 20 (17)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Ondřej Ditrych, M.Phil., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Ondřej Ditrych, M.Phil., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Is complex co-requisite for: JPM043

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Ondřej Ditrych, M.Phil., Ph.D. (18.09.2020)

The seminar (CONT), a corrolary to the Theories of International Relations lecture course (JPM043), shall introduce students in depth to several streams of theorising in the field of International Relations inspired by continental theory. The readings around which class discussions shall be organised combine original articulations of concepts and theories by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Bruno Latour, or Judith Butler and examples of their use in interrogating the ‘international’.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Viera Martinková, Ph.D. (08.09.2019)

All readings are available in the Moodle.

Teaching methods

Last update: doc. PhDr. Ondřej Ditrych, M.Phil., Ph.D. (10.09.2022)

All sessions are foreseen to take place in Pekařská and streamed through Teams. If attending online, connect to the session here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NGMwNDIyYWEtZDNjMi00MTdhLTg0OWQtZTNkYjNkN2E4NmRh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2273844aaf-f10c-4dee-aaaf-5eeb27962a5d%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221e2d902a-3f4a-441f-891b-54630429ab82%22%7d.

Please follow the university's current pandemic regulation for any changes.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. PhDr. Ondřej Ditrych, M.Phil., Ph.D. (10.09.2022)

The final grade shall be a composite of preparatory activity (10%), class participation (10%), presentation (30%) and final exam (50%). Preparatory activity shall consist in the successful completion of brief tests on reading assigned to the entire class (A and/or B). These tests must be completed by the due date indicated in the Moodle. Presentation (10 minutes) shall consist of a critical overview of one other piece of reading (Ax or Bx) and linking it to the argument of the reading to which it is linked in the syllabus. The assignment of presentations to be prepared by students shall be done during the introductory session. (No presentations are scheduled for this session.) Handouts (1 page) are to be prepared and sent to [e-mail] by the presenting student by email at least one day in advance. The final exam will take the form of a submitted research paper (2,000 words, excluding references). Students are expected to use relevant secondary literature to support their argument and follow all standards of academic writing when preparing their paper. They may choose one of the following topics:

1) How can the West‘s intervention in Afghanistan (2001-2021) be conceived as an ‘assemblage’ and explored from the perspective of new materialism?

2) Explore the global responses to COVID-19 from the perspective of Foucalt’s biopolitics.

3) Analyse the narratives surrounding Russia-Ukraine War (2022-) from feminist perspectives.