This group aims to connect people working on critical theory in the Frankfurt School tradition.
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Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]
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Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a photographic principle in tun…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Biopolitics of COVID-19: Capitalist Continuities and Democratic Openings in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
“Biopolitics” has become a popular concept for interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the term is often used vaguely, as a buzzword, and therefore loses its specificity and relevance. This article systematically explains what the biopolitical lens offers for analyzing and normatively criticizing the politics of the coronavirus. I argue that…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Brauchen wir Political Correctness? Ein politisches Streitgespräch in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Für ein Gespräch über die Themen Political Correctness, Identitätspolitik, Streitkultur und die Rolle der politischen Bildung kamen im Juli 2021 Saba-Nur Cheema von der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank und Dr. Karsten Schubert von der Universität Freiburg in einem Zoom-Raum zusammen. Die Fragen stellten Prof. Dr. Beate Rosenzweig und Petra Barz, beide…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Konstruktivistische Identitätspolitik. Warum Demokratie partikulare Positionierung erfordert in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Identity politics is subject to similar critiques in contemporary public debate and political theory. A central topos of this critique is that identity politics is essentializing: it fixes subjects to their social position and resorts to a politics of
particularity that leads to divisions in national citizenship and democratic discourse (the…[Read more] -
Karsten Schubert deposited Der letzte Universalismus. Foucaults Freiheitsdenken und die Begründung von radikaler Demokratie im Postfundamentalismus in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Die Debatte um die politische Differenz stellt Kontingenz und Konfliktualität als fundamentale Eigenschaften des Politischen heraus. Dies birgt ein Problem für die postfundamentalistische Demokratietheorie, die auf Augenhöhe mit dieser Debatte argumentieren will: Durch die Kontingentsetzung aller normativen Begründungen ist zunächst unklar, welc…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Dismantler in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
A short story about the pitfals of a new law, the General Act for the Dismantling of Normalising Power and Structures of Privilege, and, more philosophically, about the problems of institutionalizing progressive politics through law. Published in The Cabinat of Imaginary Laws, by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis: Returning to the map of the…[Read more]
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Michael Maidan deposited El enigmatico Felix Weil in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
The life of Felix Weil, one of the creators of Frankfurt’s Institut for Social Research, the cradle of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory..
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Karsten Schubert deposited A New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of Homonormativity in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Gay men have been severely affected by the AIDS crisis, and gay subjectivity, sexual ethics, and politics continue to be deeply influenced by HIV to this day. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new, drug-based HIV prevention technique, that allows disentangling gay sex from its widespread, 40 yearlong association with illness and death. This…[Read more]
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Alternative pathways to universal basic education : through the lens of Almajiri nomadic schooling in northern Nigeria in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Sedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]
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Edwin Culp deposited Hacer tiempo. Estrategias críticas del arte en lo político in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
No tenemos tiempo; nunca como ahora la productividad había dominado cada aspecto de la vida. Nuestras experiencias personales se apropian como bienes extractivos de la industria de datos. El arte crítico hoy aún permite imaginar un tiempo que no pueda ser apropiado por el relato del progreso y el aprovechamiento del tiempo, que posponga la ut…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Challenge of Migration. Is Liberalism the Problem? in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
The challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Western states is far from resolved. This ongoing failure is typically attributed to the increased influence of right-wing populism and neo-fascism in Western migration politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Postdigital Politics: or, How To Be An Anti-Bourgeois Theorist in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
In ‘Postdigital Politics’ I examine our contemporary postdigital political conjuncture. This conjuncture, I argue, springs from the crisis of representative democracy we are currently experiencing and involves a shift to more direct forms of democracy via postdigital communications. The latter is evident in the decentralised manner in which mov…[Read more]
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David I. 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 2 years, 5 months 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]
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Alexander Henschel deposited Was heißt hier Vermittlung? Kunstvermittlung und ihr umstrittener Begriff (reading sample) in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months 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]
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Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months 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]
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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 4 years, 1 month 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]
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 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]
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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 4 years, 4 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]
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Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 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] - Load More