IDS330

In a world where bodies experience injustice, inequality, suffering, violence, and a lack of control, how have humans responded with conceptions of grace, pleasure, identity, and beauty? How do bodies become sites for contested power relations, medical or legal regulation, or the justification of inequality? How do we experience desire, longing, violence, harm, sickness, death, limits, and borders in the body? This course explores conceptions of the body, the soul, desire, and power in key texts drawn from the fields of politics, history, religion, philosophy, art, and poetry from pre-modern and modern authors.

Even Years

Spring Semester