GOVT 3606

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GOVT 3606
Homo Oeconomicus

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This course examines the economic forces at work in defining and configuring the modern subject, from Adam Smith through Marx and Nietzsche, Simmel and Weber, up to the current neoliberal subject.  The course will investigate figures (as both tropes and subjects) of the human conceived according to three economic paradigms: exchange, debt, and interest. The course will focus on both literary and theoretical sources, including examinations of guiding metaphors (the invisible hand, Schuld as both debt and guilt); the intersection of religious and secular economies; pacts with the devil; economies of salvation/redemption; figures of money/value.


When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3542, GERST 3610

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17055 GOVT 3606   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person