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HIST411: Approaches to Social History

Available 2013/2014

Course Convenor: Dr John Welshman

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan This module introduces you to the work of Michel Foucault, particularly his discussions of social organisation and the constitution of the subject. We will begin with a close reading of Discipline and Punish (1977) and History of Sexuality (1979), and then turn to the lectures at the Collège de France on which these two texts were based for a more detailed discussion of issues arising.

Taught: Lent Term.

Assessment: 5000 word essay (100%).

Introductory Reading:

  • Mitchell Dean, Critical and Effective Histories: Foucault’s Method and Historical Sociology (London: Routledge, 1994).

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