授課主旨

延續啟蒙主義的精神，西方思想往往對立「感性」和「理性」這兩種感知能力，並視後者就人性和社會之良善發展而言，其價值遠勝於前者。感性若未受理性思維的完善監管，恐將製造個人、甚或社會性的混亂。上述彷彿不理自明的預設，也深刻影響了「社會科學」的問題意識、研究方法、和理論建構，其隱含的終極目的之一，為更精煉吾人的理性思維，並據此分析社會問題以及社會運作的法則、並提出具體有效的政策建議。然而，Michel Foucault的系列研究，早已昭示所謂的理性知識與依此建構的國家治理方案，不時產生無所預期的「非理性」效應——更甚者，驅動所謂的理性探知之源，很可能就是情感性和感官性的。我們可以如何更實在地理解感性和理性的關係？此外，對於二者孰優孰劣的鑑別，本身是否即是偽命題？

回應上述提問，晚近人文社科學界興起「感官轉向」（或「情動轉向」（Affect Turn），本課旨在回應前述提問，並希冀培養修課同學的感官體會與分析能力。本課設有以下五大主題：「糖癮的資本主義歷史」、「飲食品味與文化社會」、「意識、潛意識、主體性」、「視覺經驗」、「人類世與多物種」，我們將藉由味覺、視覺、痛覺、觸覺和聽覺等角度切入，以探討這些課題。

評分方式：期中考（20%）+期末考（80%），以申論題為主；曠課超過兩次者，以不及格論。

Purpose of teaching

Continuing the spirit of Enlightenment, Western thought often opposes the two perceptive abilities of "emotion" and "rationality", and regards the latter as far more valuable than the former in terms of the good development of human nature and society. If emotions are not perfectly supervised by rational thinking, they may create personal and even social chaos. The above-mentioned seemingly self-evident presuppositions have also profoundly affected the problem awareness, research methods, and theoretical construction of "social science." One of its implicit ultimate purposes is to further refine our rational thinking, and analyze social problems and the laws of social operation based on this, and put forward specific and effective policy suggestions. However, Michel Foucault's series of studies have already shown that so-called rational knowledge and national governance plans constructed based on it have from time to time produced unexpected "irrational" effects - what's more, the source of driving so-called rational inquiry is likely to be emotional and sensory. How can we understand the relationship between sensibility and reason more realistically? In addition, is the identification of which is better and worse between the two itself a false proposition?

In response to the above questions, the "sensory turn" (or "emotional turn") has recently emerged in the humanities and social sciences. Turn), this course aims to respond to the aforementioned questions and hopes to cultivate the students' sensory experience and analytical skills. This course has the following five major themes: "The Capitalist History of Sugar Addiction," "Food Taste and Cultural Society," "Consciousness, Subconsciousness, and Subjectivity," "Visual Experience," and "The Anthropocene and Multispecies." We will explore these topics from the perspectives of taste, vision, pain, touch, and hearing.

Grading method: mid-term exam (20%) + final exam (80%), mainly based on the application topic; those who are absent from class more than twice will be considered failed.

參考各週進度書目

Refer to the weekly progress books