Theme ’22-’23: Critical philosophy – Contemporary concerns, foundations, challenges

The Goldsmiths Undergraduate Philosophy Circle is open to all Goldsmiths students interested in reading and discussing philosophical texts together. 

Meetings: on Fridays, 4-6pm; 3 x Autumn Term; 3 x Spring Term, 3 x Summer Term (see dates below)

Location: RHB 220

Convenor: Svenja Bromberg (Lecturer in Sociology), s.bromberg [at] gold.ac.uk; if you want to join the email list and receive the readings in advance, please send Svenja an email.

Date	Key Readings
Autumn Term	– Contemporary Concerns –
Friday, 21th Oct	Hortense Spillers (2020), ‘Critical Theory in Times of Crisis’, pp. 681-683
Friday, 4th of Nov	Rodrigo Cordero (2017), Crisis and Critique – on the Fragile Foundations of Social Life, Part I, Chapter 1 & 2 ‘Sociologies of Crisis/Critiques of Sociology’, pp.13-58
Friday, 2 Dec (NEW DATE!)	Amy Allen (2016), The end of progress; Decolonising the normative foundations of critical theory, Chapter 1 – Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress, pp. 1 – 36
Spring Term	– Foundations –
tbd	Michel Foucault (1994), ‘What is Enlightenment?’ in Essential Works of Foucault Vl1, pp. 303-321
tbd	Karl Marx (1987), Early Writings, 1843 Letters between Marx and Ruge from Franco-German Yearbooks , esp. last letter + Robin Celikates (2012), ‘Karl Marx: Critique as Emancipatory Practice’, in Boer and Sonderegger, Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, pp. 101-118
tbd	Herbert Marcuse (2009), ‘Philosophy and Critical Theory’, pp. 99-117 in Negations
Summer Term	– Challenges –
tbd	Robert Bernasconi (2012), ‘Critical Philosophy of Race’, in Routledge Companion, pp. 551-562
tbd	Carl Cassegard (2021)Towards a critical theory of nature, Introduction: What is a Critical Theory of Nature, pp. 1-21
tbd	Didier Fassin (2022) Conspiracy Theories as Ambiguous Critique of Crisis in Fassin / Honneth, Crisis under Critique, pp.403-419