presented at holy cross college, new colony in 2023

1. “European philosophical tradition is that it
consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
- Alfred North Whitehead

2. Primary Ideas
● Ethics and Virtue
● Political Philosophy
● Metaphysics
● Rhetoric and Language
● Epistemology
● Dialectic Method
● Theory of Forms

3. Political Philosophy (othering)
Homo Sacer - Giorgio Agamben
Bare Life - Giorgio Agamben
Governmentality - Michel Foucault
Subaltern - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Ideology - Karl Marx
Necropolitics - Achille Mbembe

4. Theory of Forms (reality)
Aura - Walter Benjamin
Waning of Affect/Pastiche/Historical Amnesia/Parody - Fredric Jameson
Simulacra - Jean Baudrillard
Hauntology - Jacques Derrida
Metanarrative - Jean-François Lyotard
Phantasmal - Sigmund Freud
Absence/Presence - Jacques Derrida

5. Epistemology (truth)
● Power/Knowledge - Michel Foucault
● Archival Silence - Derrida
● Epistemic Violence - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

6. Human Nature (Desire)
● Reason, Spirit, and Appetite - Plato
● Id, Ego, Super Ego - Sigmund Freud
● Desiring Machines - Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari
● Mimetic Desire - René Girard
● Habitus/Cultural Capital - Pierre Bourdieu

7. Language
Logocentrism - Jacques Derrida
Phaedrus - Pharmakon - Plato
Cratylus - Arbitrariness - Plato

8. Thank You