Philosophy 507 Critical Social Theory (Fall 2006)
on an upcoming philosophy paper
I have all my homework done for this quarter except a 12-15 page paper due Thursday. This is exciting - I’ve never had an easier finals week.
But it’s a little stressful because I want this paper to be good. I turned in an abstract of where I was thinking of going a few weeks ago. [...]
philosophy digest #8
here is the reading digest I’ll turn in for critical social theory on Tuesday:
Wednesday night, after a short week of classes before Thanksgiving, I sat in Bombs Away, one of my favorite bars to sit and chat with others in. Two other English department GTAs and I were holding a lively and hopeful discussion about [...]
philosophy digest #7
here is the reading digest I turned in for philosophy class last week:
Habermas, Jürgen. “The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies.“ Translated by Thomas McCarthy.
Hames-GarcÃÂa, Michael. “Can Queer Theory Be Critical Theory?“ in New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation, edited by William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey Paris, 201-222. Lanham: Rowman [...]
philosophy digest #6
Here is my reading digest for Critical Social Theory that’s due tomorrow:
Habermas, Jürgen. “Toward a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism“ and “Social Action and Rationality.“ Translated by Thomas McCarthy.
Marcuse, Herbert. “Liberation from the Affluent Society.“ in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner, 276-287. New York: Routledge, 1989.
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Paris on the obsolescence of critical theory
Where has Critical Theory gone? Paris argues that in turning away from Horkheimer’s call for a theorizing and researching for liberation and a future free of suffering, theorists such as Habermas have ignored the past and future. For these new Critical Theorists, the future is “the ongoing mediation of cultural conflict; the engaged life of [...]
Habermas on feelings and desires
I’m reading Habermas for my critical social theory, and I don’t fully get his arguments, but I think I like this passage:
We should not understand subjective experiences as mental states or inner episodes, for we would thereby assimilate them to entities, to elements fot the objective world. We can comprehend having subjective experiences as something [...]
philosophy digest #5
This week’s reading digest, turned in today:
Habermas, Jürgen. “The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society.“ Translated by Thomas McCarthy. in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner, 292-312. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Marcuse, Herbert. “Liberation from the Affluent Society.“ in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, edited [...]
philosophy digest #4
My reading digest for 31 October 2006:
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Revised and Enlarged Ed. Penguin.
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Standford, CA: Standford UP, 2002.
Wallace, James M. “A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield.“ in [...]
philosophy digest #3
My reading digest from Critical Social Theory on 17 October 2006.
Horkheimer, Max. “The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research.“ Translated by Peter Wagner. in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner, 25-36. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Marcuse, Herbert. “From Ontology [...]
philosophy digest #2
This is my reading digest from critical social theory from 10 October 2006.
Engels, Frederich. “Letters on Historical Materialism,“ 1890, 1893, 1894. in The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Robert C. Tucker, 760-768. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. “What Is To Be Done.“ 1902. Internet Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902lenin.html
Marx, Karl. “Economic [...]
