Kritinė metodologija ir politinio proto kritika
Dalyko anotacija užsienio kalba
This course examines the way in which, both historically and today, limits are set on the rational discourses of knowledge and politics. (This course is not a “trial” of reason.) Special attention is paid to the concept of freedom as it is reflected in its political, legal, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions. Attention is also paid to critiques of totalitarian reason, but equally to the impractical consolations of political utopianism.
Dalyko studijų rezultatai
Students will understand and analyze the role of the historical intellectual movements (e.g. Enlightement) in developing political trends, structures, and ideas. Students explore and critically analyze the relationship between religion and politics. Students learn to contextualize these theories and narratives within their various social and cultural dynamics.
Dalyko turinys
The seminar opens by examining the 18th c. discussion between Kant and his contemporaries about the meaning, legitimacy, and importance of the Enlightenment for politics. Next we discuss Spinoza and Leibniz’s struggle over whether politics and religion should be separated or fused. After this, Spinoza’s understanding of the Multitude will be compared to Hobbes notion of the People, in order to examine the thorny issue in political philosophy of the One vs. the Many. Next, the argument between Hume and Kant over whether passions or reason should guide practical judgment will be studied. The course then moves to the discussion between Foucault and Habermas over the Enlightenment’s legacy today. Along with studying the 17th-century context of political theology, the relationship of theology and religion to politics is further discussed in its philosophical groundings through such diverse voices as Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes, Max Weber, and Tariq Ramadan. Themes include (in no particular order): Spinoza‘s notion of immanent causality; Foucault‘s concept of biopolitics; The One (The People) vs. The Many (The Multitude); What is Enlightenment? ; Separation of church and State; The subject of political ideology and ideological state apparatuses; The status of civil society and the public sphere; The concept of general economy (vs. restricted economy); Multiplicity, rhizome, and the nomadic war machine; Communicative vs. subject-centered reason; Contemporary pragmatics of scientific knowledge; Globalization and homo economicus; the future of liberalism and democracy.
Dalyko studijos valandomis
Paskaitos – 30 val., seminarai – 15 val., konsultacijos interaktyviuoju būdu – 15 val., studento savarankiškas darbas: šaltinių skaitymas ir analizavimas – 100 val
Studijų rezultatų vertinimas
Kolokviumas – 20%; seminaras – 30%; egzaminas – 50%.
Literatūra
1. 1996 What is Enlightenment?, ed. James Schmidt University of California
2. 2007 Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise, ed. Jonathan Israel Cambridge
3. 1998 Leibniz, Political Writings, ed. Patrick Riley Cambridge
4. 1994 Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Curley Hackett.
5. 1998 Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature Oxford
6. 1996 Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge
7. 1994 Critique and Power, ed Michael Kelly MIT
8. 2008 Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics Palgrave Macmillan
9. 2007 Foucault, Michel, Security, Territory, Population Palgrave Macmillan
10. 1995 Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought. ed. James D. Faubion Westview Press (Oxford)
11. 2006 Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World. Eds. Hent de Vries and Lawrence Sullivan. Fordham University Press
12. 2000 Žižek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject: the Absent Centre of Political Ontology, Verso
13. 1987 Deleuze, Gilles, and Guattari, Felix. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia University of Minnesota Press
14. 2004 Virno, Paulo. A Grammar of the Multitude, Semiotext(e)
15. 1992 Feminists Theorize the Political. eds. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott Routledge
16. 2007 Jacques Ranciere, On the Shores of Politics Verso
