PL 255: Marxism and Critical Theory
Marx and Critical Theory
PHIL 493/593 Fall Semester 2020
Instructor: James Swindal
Course Description. The philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and Critical Theory (The Frankfurt School) are two of the most influential Western philosophical movements of the last two centuries. Marx’s and Engel’s writings have roots in earlier philosophical movements, particularly British and French materialism, German idealism, French social philosophy, and the study of political economy. The Critical Theorists consulted works of German Idealism, Husserl and Heidegger, Freudian psychoanalysis, Max Weber, and Western Marxism—just to name a few. These emancipatory theories both forged are characterized by a deep and consistent interest in the humanization of modern society, particularly regarding its social and economic ways of life.
Required Readings
● Marx, Capital, tr. B. Fowkes (Penguin, 1976). Excerpts.
● Tucker, Robert ed. The Marx/ Engels Reader, 2nd ed. (Norton, 1978). Excerpts.
● Adorno, Problems of Moral Philosophy (Stanford 2001).
● Ingram, David, ed. Critical Theory: The Essential Readings (Paragon, 1991). Excerpts.
● All other required texts will be sent electronically: Benjamin’s Introduction to the Trauerspiel and “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; excerpts from Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music, Minima Moralia and “The Idea of Natural History”; Habermas’s Postscript to Knowledge and Human Interest, Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Book XI) and “Faith and Knowledge,” excerpts from Seyla Benhabib, Critique, Norm, and Utopia, and excerpts from Amy Allen and Brian O’Connor, eds., Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations.
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