Course syllabus
This course provides an examination of some attempts to support political struggles for freedom, justice and recognition through the philosophical critique of modern society. More specifically, the course examines three generations of theorists associated with the "Frankfurt School" of Critical Theory in Germany.
First Generation: Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse
Second Generation: Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young
Third Generation: Axel Honneth, Amy Allen, Rainer Forst
Topics to be discussed include science and technology, rationality, bureaucratisation, alienation, mass communication, the commodification of culture and the idea of critique.
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Syllabus overview
Introduction | |||
Week 1: The Frankfurt School |
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Jürgen Habermas | |||
Week 2: The Public Sphere |
Week 3: The Unfinished Project of Modernity |
Week 4: The Theory of Communicative Action |
Week 5: Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy |
Feminist Responses | |||
Week 6: Habermas and Gender |
Week 7: Inclusion and Democracy |
Week 8: Reason and Power |
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Recognition Theory | |||
Week 9: The Struggle for Recognition |
Week 10: Redistribution or Recognition? |
Week 11: Recognition and Power |
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