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Mar 11, 2026
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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PL 345 Queer Ideas
(4 Credits)
As a critical philosophical exploration of queerness, this course draws from the rich cultural traditions of global philosophy to answer questions about identity, epistemology, and ethico-political responsibility with regard to non-normative gender and sexuality. A premise of this inquiry is the historical and cultural rootedness of various philosophical paradigms. We will begin by examining the modern European paradigm and its role in the production of the modern racialized cis-heterosexual matrix. We will then challenge that paradigm from a variety of non-modern positions, including contemporary postmodernism as well as historical non-European traditions. With an intersectional and cross-cultural approach, we will examine how queer identities are constructed, how they are implicated in relations of social and political power, and how they can be liberating.
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