ADM6194 LAW AND TRANSGRESSION

Course Code:3106194
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (2.00 - 2.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Political Science and Public Adm.
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
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Offered Semester:Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives


Course Content

This course deals with the so-called dialectic of law and transgression that has been conceptualized in many different and offen contradictory ways. It refers to the theoretical frameworks developed by Bataille,Zizek,Foucault,Stallybross and White, Kristeva, Derrida etc., with a specific attention to certain notions such as ´law-making and law-preserving violence´, ´inherent transgression´, ´carnivalesque economics of transgression´ and ´transgression as the disavowed foundation of law´.


Course Learning Outcomes