PHIL30300 Critical Theory

Academic Year 2023/2024

This module examines the idea of a critical theory of society, starting with Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, and progressing to discuss in detail Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin, Foucault, Habermas and, time permitting, authors in the tradition who are inspired by them. It addresses questions concerning the point of such critical theorizing, the anthropological assumptions motivating it, the idea of freedom driving it, the conceptions of critique on which it relies and the social obstacles that block possibilities for freedom and impede critical social theorising. The module will also consider the question of the place of art (literature, music, the visual arts) in critical theorizing about society.

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Antoine Athanassiadis Tutor
Killian Favier Tutor
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