Universität Wien

180394 SE Engage Science (2009S)

Zum Verhältnis von Epistemologie und Gesellschaftstheorie

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 10.03. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 24.03. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 21.04. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 05.05. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 19.05. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 16.06. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 30.06. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Pierre Bourdieu's call for a "scholarship with commitment" raises crucial epistemological questions that will be in the foreground of this seminar: What follows from the insight in the entanglement of knowledge, society and politics? What is/should be the societal, critical function of (social) sciences? How do we define the relation between epistemology and critical social theory? What are the tasks of a social and politically informed, emancipatory kind of epistemology?

Assessment and permitted materials

Class attendance; Seminar presentations, handout and class discussion; comments; final paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

By questioning the relation of (social) science and society the aim of this seminar is to rethink the tasks of epistemology as critical theory

Examination topics

Mandatory reading, comments, seminar presentations and class discussion

Reading list

Marx, Karl/ Engels, Friedrich: Die Deutsche Ideologie (1832), MEW, Bd. 3, Berlin 1990.
Lukács, Georg: Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein (1923), Neuwied/Berlin 1968.
Mannheim, Karl: Ideologie und Utopie (1929), Frankfurt/Main 1995.
Adorno, Theodor W. et al.: Der Positivismusstreit in der deutschen Soziologie, Darmstadt 1972.
Horkheimer, Max: Kritische und traditionelle Theorie, in: Kritische Theorie. Eine Dokumentation, Band II, Frankfurt/M. 1968.
Habermas, Jürgen: Erkenntnistheorie als Gesellschaftstheorie, in: Erkenntnis und Interesse, Frankfurt/M. 1981.
Hartsock, Nancy: The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays, Boulder/Oxford 1998.
Althusser, Louis: Philosophie und spontane Philosophie der Wissenschaftler, Hamburg 1985.
Harding, Sandra (Hg.): The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future, Bloomington/Indianapolis 1993.
Latour, Bruno: Die Hoffnung der Pandora. Untersuchungen zur Wirklichkeit der Wissenschaft, Frankfurt/Main 2002.
Singer, Mona: Geteilte Wahrheit. Feministische Epistemologie, Wissenssoziologie und Cultural Studies, Wien 2005.
Adorno, Theodor W.: Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie der Gesellschaft, Frankfurt/Main 2008.


Association in the course directory

BA M 5.3, § 4.2.3, PP § 57.6

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