By Charlotte Thomas Hébert As Critique 13/13 seeks to investigate how re-reading the foundational texts of critical theory can contribute to serve our political project to address today’s crises, it is particularly timely to go back to one of feminism’… Continue Reading
By Mihir Samson* What is remarkable reading Simone de Beauvoir in 2019 is not only how current her criticisms of sexual oppression remain, but the extent to which these same critiques point towards, and can be used in the fight against… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Vintage Books, 2011. Secondary Materials Judith Butler, “Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex.” Yale French Studies, No. 72 (1986), pp 35-49. Interview with Simone de Beauvoir from 1975.
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