By Maximilian Ringleb* Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest political theorists of the last century, repeatedly insisted that she was not a philosopher. In an interview with Günter Gaus in 1964, Arendt specified that the term political philosophy, in her… Continue Reading
Primary Readings Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958). Please read the whole book. We will be focusing our discussion on the following passages: Part I. The Human Condition, pp. 1-21 Part II. The Public and the Private Realm,… 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
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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