Continuous research seminar (7,5h total): Concepts and figures of critical thinking VI.
- Research line seminar (specific training activity - code 50030) - Organized by the Research Group on Critical Theory and Frankfurt School of the UV. Co-organized by the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences of the University of Valencia.
Sesión 1: Las patologías sociales como bloque de la imaginación (con Gustavo Pereira)
It can be stated generically that social pathologies have been presented by part of the tradition (Marx, Weber, Lukács, Adorno and Horkheimer, Habermas) as the imposition of rationality of means to ends in social spaces alien to it. This thesis can be radicalized and generalized to contemplate all types of practical rationality, in such a way that we could identify social pathologies in cases of imposition of moral rationality, ethics or politics in spaces alien to it.
Reading texts: Pereira, G. (2018). El asedio de la imaginación (Albolote: Colmares) - excerpt.
Date: monday, October 26, from 17:00 to 19:30.
Session 2: Myth and art as a critique of society (with Vanessa Vidal)
In this session we will work on the first Excursus of the Dialectic of Enlightenment entitled 'Odysseus: or myth and enlightenment' in which Adorno makes a critique of society through the interpretation of a work of art." The session will make explicit the relationship between the philosophy of art and the critical theory of society."
Reading text: Horkheimer, M. and Adorno, Th. W. "'Odysseus: or myth and enlightenment' in: ibid: Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Date: Monday, November 9, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.
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Session 3: Normativity and social pathologies - critique of the world of work (with José Lorente Marcos)
The proposal is aimed at the discussion of the current normative frameworks in the structure of the field of work and the pathologies (alienation, precariousness, vulnerability, individuation, flexibility, contempt, etc.) suffered by people in this field throughout their professional trajectory.
Reading text: David Graeber (2018). Bullshit jobs. Madrid: Ariel - extract.
Date: Monday, November 23, from 17:00 to 19:30.
All sessions take place at Facultat de Ciències Socials, Aula 3A2.
To participate and receive the texts to be discussed it is mandatory to register (free of charge) by sending an email until October 19, 2020 to:
