By Fakhruddin Valika Critique 13/13 keeps returning to the best ways to read and use a text. On the one hand, every author is owed some basic fidelity and attention—the reader’s honest engagement with the text on its own terms.… Continue Reading
By Frank S. Hong* Critical theory can be read as an extended dialogue about the place of thinking in an irrational, disenchanted, and profoundly unjust world—and in Critique 2/13, Professors Axel Honneth and Bernard Harcourt pursued this debate by… Continue Reading
By Axel Honneth
Horkheimer and Adorno: Critical Theory and Actuality of Philosophy by Maximilian Ringleb* During the 1920s, it became apparent that Marx’s predicted proletarian revolution and Diktatur des Proletariats had not been realized in the industrialized European states. Quite the contrary, especially… Continue Reading
By Tyler T. Jankauskas The questions of scholarly intention, audience reception, and category definition are central to re-reading Horkheimer and Adorno’s early, somewhat “programmatic” texts. In this essay, I will treat these two methodological interventions in turn, considering insights and… 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