Universität Wien

180596 SE The Frankfurt School (2010S)

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

Di 16. März 2010 - Vorbesprechung 16:00-17:00 - HS 3A
> Do 20. Mai 2010: 13:00 - 17:00 - Hs 3E
> Fr 21. Mai 2010: 13:00 - 17:00 - HS 3c
> Fr 4. Juni 2010: 13:00-17:00 - HS 3c
> Sa 5. Juni 2010: 9:30 - 13:30- HS 3c
> Fr 18. Juni 2010: 13:00 - 17:00- HS 3c
> Sa 19. Juni 2010: 9:30 - 13:30- HS 3c

Registration/Deregistration

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. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Didactics - the seminar will consist of presentations and class discussions.
Readings/literature - all texts for the seminar will be made available in form of a Reader.
Selected texts:
May 20 - Max Horkheimer:
The Problem of Truth; The End of Reason; The Concept of Enlightenment.
MAY 21 - Herbert Marcuse:
The Foundations of Historical Materialism; The Affirmative Character of Culture; Sartre's Existentialism.
JUNE 4 - Herbert Marcuse:
Freedom and Freud's Theory of Instincts; Remarks on a Redefinition of Culture.
JUNE 5 - Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin:
The Actuality of Philosophy; The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (2nd and 3rd versions); Letters to Benjamin; On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening.
JUNE 18 - Theodor W. Adorno:
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Cultural Criticism and Society; Commitment; Trying to Understand Endgame.
JUNE 19 - Theodor W. Adorno:
Negative Dialectics and the Possibility of Philosophy; Meditations on Metaphysics: After Auschwitz; Subject and Object.
Prüfungsmodalitäten/grade requirements:
In order to receive a grade for the seminar, one has to choose between a presentation (35 - 40 minutes) or a paper (20 pages, 1 ¿ spaces). If desired, presentations can be selected during the Vorbesprechung on March 16 and before May 20.
Class attendance is mandatory!
Contact emails:
erik.vogt@trincoll.edu; erik.vogt@univie.ac.at

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Association in the course directory

BA M 13, § 4.2.2

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