Critical Theory Workshop, Feb-April 2016
Week 1 (February 16)
Rene Descartes, “Part One: The Principles of Human Knowledge” from Principles of Philosophy in Philosophical Writings of Rene Descartes: Volume I ed. John Cottingham
Week 2 (February 23)
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
- Transcendental Philosophy: “Introduction-B” in Critique of Pure Reason, ed. Paul Guyer [pp. 136-149]; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, “Preface”
- Space & Time: “Transcendental Aesthetic”, Critique of Pure Reason
- The Conceptual Basis for Experience & Response to Hume: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- Metaphysics: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Week 3 (March 1)
Karl Marx, from Critique of Political Economy
Week 4 (March 15)
Sigmund Freud, from Civilization and its Discontents
Carl Jung, from Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Week 5 (March 22)
Eric Fromm, from The Sane Society [pp. 12-61]
Week 6 (March 29)
Claude Levi-Strauss, “Overture” from Raw and the Cooked
Week 7 (April 5)
Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” from Writing and Difference
Week 8 (April 12)
Simone De Beauvoir, “Introduction” from The Second Sex [pp. 15-29]
Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” from Gender Trouble [pp. 1-34]
Week 9 (April 17)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, “Riddle No 1: The Difficulty of Knowing Why One is a Hindu”, Riddle in Hinduism
V.D. Savarkar, “Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?” in Hindu Nationalism: A Reader ed. Christophe Jaffrelot [pp. 87-96]
Week 10 (April 22)
M.K. Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore
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