Critical Theory and Philosophy

3 credits · Graduate credit

Seminars on various topics that explore issues in aesthetics, theories of language and subjectivity, and the genealogy of critical thought in continental philosophy. Authors include: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, among others; Freud and Lacan (psychoanalysis); and Weber, Simmel, and Elias (sociology). They also may study the long legacy of critical thought throughout the twentieth century in the works of authors associated with the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas, Benjamin, and Kracauer), in post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonial theory.