Reading Group as part of the Praxis-CFUL activities
Working language: English
Organizer: Dr. Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (rcanales@letras.ulisboa.pt)
Wednesdays, from 16h00 to 18h00 at Sala Pedro Hispano (Department of Philosophy), according to the calendar below.
To participate, please send an e-mail to the convenor expressing your interest in taking part in the RG.
Spring Semester 2022: “Forms & Strategies of Critique”
This semester, the reading group on Topics of Social Philosophy and Critical Theory will focus on the notion of “Critique”, which will be addressed systematically rather than historically. In other words, instead of proposing an initial definition of the term and then following its possible continuities or deviations, the objective is to revisit and track down the operative forms and strategies rendered by critical social theory (immanent- and ideology critique, metacritique, genealogy, critique of power) in order to address their different objects of critique. In other words, by analyzing the limits and contours of their targets (ideology, power, etc.), the aim is to reconstruct and bring into light both the nuances and the reach of their methodological procedures.
Programme
Session 1 | 16 February 2022
de Boer, K. (2012). “Hegel’s Conception of Immanent Critique: Its Sources, Extent and Limit,” in: K. de Boer & R. Sonderegger (eds.). Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. New York-London: Palgrave Macmillan, 83-100. [download here]
Session 2 | 23 March 2022
Horkheimer, M. (1982). “Traditional and Critical Theory,” in: Critical Theory. Selected Essays. New York: Continuum, 188-210. [download here]
Session 3 | 6 April 2022
Horkheimer, M. (1982). “Traditional and Critical Theory,” in: Critical Theory. Selected Essays. New York: Continuum, 210-243. [download here]
Session 4 | 27 April 2022
Horkheimer, M. (1982). “Traditional and Critical Theory,” in: Critical Theory. Selected Essays. New York: Continuum, 210-243. [download here]
Session 5 | 11 May 2022
Stahl, T. (2013). “What is Immanent Critique?”, SSRN Working Papers <doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2357957> [download here]
Session 6 | 25 May 2022
Saar, M. (2010). “Power and Critique,” in: Journal of Power, 3 (1): 7-20. [download here]