By Sharon Liu* The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought kicked off the first seminar of Critique 13/13 with Professor Amy Allen, in a discussion about the current state of critical theory and its usefulness today. The questions at the… Continue Reading
By Christen Hammock Our first seminar, Critique 1/13: In Search of a Method, posed the question whether there is a right or wrong way to read critical theory texts, and in the discussion, I was immediately struck by how personal… Continue Reading
Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” In The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow, 76-100. New York, Pantheon Books, 1984. Paul Veyne, “Foucault revolutionizes history,” in Arnold Ira Davidson (ed.), Foucault and His Interlocutors. University of Chicago Press. pp. 146-82 (1997) Amy Allen, “’Psychoanalysis… Continue Reading
Required Books Adorno, Theodor. Negative Dialectics. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 1966. Allen, Amy. The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Althusser et al. Reading Capital. New York: Verso,… Continue Reading
Webcasts for Critique 13/13, live or past, are available here and on the home pages of each seminar session: https://totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=critique1313
The Critique 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading