This group aims to connect people working on critical theory in the Frankfurt School tradition.
David Backer deposited History of the Reproduction-Resistance Dichotomy in Critical Education: The Line of Critique Against Louis Althusser, 1974-1985 in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 week ago
This paper examines one intellectual and historical premise upon which the foundational distinction between reproduction and resistance rests in critical education: the line of critique against the French communist philosopher Louis Althusser’s theory of education. In the paper, I claim that a particular reading of Althusser coming out of B…[Read more]
Alexander Henschel deposited Was heißt hier Vermittlung? Kunstvermittlung und ihr umstrittener Begriff (reading sample) in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week ago
Mit dem Begriff der Kunstvermittlung wird Politik gemacht und er wird mit gegenläufigen Verständnissen verknüpft. Das Buch “Was heißt hier Vermittlung?” arbeitet heraus, dass die Bedeutungskonkurrenz bereits im Streitbegriff der Vermittlung angelegt ist. Der unternommene Gang durch sozialhistorische und philosophische Begriffsgeschichten wird mit…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]
Key MacFarlane deposited Hamburg’s Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg’s ur…[Read more]
Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Few of Arendt’s writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than “Reflections on LIttle Rock,” in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt’s comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]Yohanna Joseph Waliya deposited ZéroDécès in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
ZéroDécès est un poème numérique inspiré du transhuamnisme. Même que le transhumanisme rende tout possible par l’intermédiaire de la technologie, le poète croit que Dieu est toujours le Tout-Puissant.
Yohanna Joseph Waliya deposited Véritologie in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Véritologie est un poème numérique qui explique la vraie origine de la vérité.
Yohanna Joseph Waliya deposited Jesus is above Croesus and Zeus in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This is Christian digital poem which is written in French and English to present Jesus Christ above Croesus and Zeus.
David Backer deposited The Gold and the Dross: Althusser for Educators in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months ago
In the last decade, there has been an international resurgence of interest in the philosophy of Louis Althusser. New essays, journalism, collections, secondary literature, and even manuscripts by Althusser himself are emerging, speaking in fresh ways to audiences of theorists and activists. Althusser is especially important in educational thought,…[Read more]
David Backer deposited Uses and Abuses of Class Separatism in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
There are uses and abuses of class separatism. It draws clear lines of demarcation, helps sort the ideal from the material, and finds issues that cut across a lot of differences. But it gets abused, and the abuse is rooted in its mistake about relations of production. My contention, having done this assessment of class separatism, is that the…[Read more]
Steven Aoun deposited Better Angels of Our Nature: Steven Pinker’s Demon Moves in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Is it worst to be killed by a crazed mob wielding machetes or to die via conveyor belt and filing system? The Better Angels of Our Nature keeps falling victim to the halo effect, creating an aura around reason itself. The question, then, is whether the book should be viewed as a jewel in reason’s crown or as among its costume jewellery.
Yohanna Joseph Waliya deposited Lettre à Union Africaine in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Il s’git d’une lettre aux pays membres d’Union Africaine.
Steven Aoun deposited What Is ‘Critical’ About Critical Theory? in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
The idea of a critical theory has colonized the social consciousness of academia, and become an integral part of the pursuit of higher knowledge. Competing ideas have thereby become standard bearers in that critical theory acts as a measure of true understanding . The only problem, however, is that many of the distinct theories similarly answering…[Read more]
Ben Streeter deposited Book Review: Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (Andreas Huyssen) in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Book Review: Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (Andreas Huyssen)
David Backer deposited Interpellation, Counterinterpellation, and Education in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
In a recent essay in Rethinking Marxism, as part of a special issue on the legacy of Louis Althusser’s thinking,
Tyson E. Lewis takes up Althusser’s thinking on schooling, trade unionism, and seminars to delimit the concepts of
interpellation, counterinterpellation, and disinterpellation respectively. While Lewis’s work is a crucial first step…[Read more]Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Laws, Exceptions, Norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the Exception,” Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts 162 (2013): 77–96. in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
The concept of the exception has heavily shaped modern political theory. In modernity, Kierkegaard was one of the first philosophers to propound the exception as a facilitator of metaphysical transcendence. Merging Kierkegaard’s metaphysical exception with early modern political theorist Jean Bodin’s theory of sovereignty, Carl Schmitt int…[Read more]
Michael Miller deposited Abraham Abulafia’s Mystical Theology of the Divine Name and its Philosophical Revision in Walter Benjamin in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
The thirteenth century kabbalist Abraham Abulafia held Hebrew to be the divine language, designed by God as an ontological aspect of reality. Through meditating on and deconstructing names into their letters, one could then engage in the process of reunifying reality into the primordial Name of God, the Tetragrammaton. This paper offers an…[Read more]
Jayashree Kamble deposited Love Studies in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
Profile of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance by Maggie Coughlin Worth in the Romance Writers of America newsletter, Romance Writers Report
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