PHIL 225
Power, Critique and Emancipation
Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for PHIL 225.
Description
This course provides an examination of some attempts to support political struggles for freedom, justice and recognition through the philosophical critique of modern society.
More specifically, the course examines three generations of theorists associated with the "Frankfurt School" of Critical Theory in Germany.
First Generation: Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse
Second Generation: Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser
Third Generation: Axel Honneth
Topics to be discussed include science and technology, rationality, bureaucratisation, social control, social alienation, mass communication, the commodification of culture and the idea of critique.
Availability 2019
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Dr Matheson Russell
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
PHIL 225: 15 points
Prerequisites
15 points in Philosphy, and 30 points passed
Restrictions
PHIL 345