UPF, 2015 Contemporary Political Philosophy Prof: Marina Garcés 1. Introduction to modern critical thinking. Main reference : “Critique”, Enciclopédie Française (french version, discussed during the seminary) Main reading: Koselleck, Critique and crisis, “The process of criticism” PART I 2. From Kant to Foucault Main readings: Kant, “What is enlightenment?” Foucault, “What is critique?” Complementary reading: Kant, Preface A and B to Critique of pure reason 3. From Nietzsche to Deleuze Main readings: Nietzsche (selection): “The three metamorphoses”, “The despisers of the body”, “Old and new tables”, Deleuze, Nietzsche and philosophy, 3rd part: “Critique” Complementary reading: Nietzsche, “Preface” Genealogy of the morals 4. From Marx to contemporary emancipation Main reading: Marx, Feuerbach Thesis Raymond Williams, “Hegemony” and “Ideology”, in Keywords Rancière, “The Aesthetic revolution and its outcomes” Complementary reading: Rancière, Disagreement. PART II 5. To embody critique. Around Judith Butler Main reading: Butler, “Survivability, vulnerability, affect”, in Frames of War 6. Descentering human point of view. Around Dipesh Chakrabarty Main reading: Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The human condition in the Antroposcene” (Tanner Lectures) 7. Critique and engagement Main readings: Marina Garcés, Committment, CCCB; Espai en Blanc and El Pressentiment materials www.espaienblanc.net www.elpressentiment.net PART III (Sonia Arribas) 8. Freud, Marx and Critique Main readings: Freud, “Beyond the pleasure principle” and “Group psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” Marx, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof” in Capital. The Critique of Political Economy, Vol. I. 9. Critical Theory and the Critique of Enlightenment Main readings: Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory” Adorno and Horkheimer, “The Concept of Enlightenment”, in Dialectic of Enlightenment Complementary reading: Excursus I and II in DE 10. Benjamin: Critique of Violence and History Main reading: Benjamin, “The Critique of Violence” Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” Complementary reading: Convolut N in The Arcades Project