Category Archives: Philosophy 507 Critical Social Theory (Fall 2006)

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 … Continue reading →

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: … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →