PHILÂ 257. Critical Theory: Antisemitism, Barbarism, Capitalism. 1 Credit.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3
This course explores the Frankfurt School's program of social critique - inspired by Kant, Hegel, Marx and Freud - which indicted fascism and antisemitism and struck at the heart of modernity: capitalism, culture, Enlightenment, reason and freedom. They ask us, Is ethical life possible under contemporary conditions of barbarism?.