Ongoing research seminar. Concepts and figures of critical thought VIII (6h total)
Updated programme:
Critical Theory and Decolonial Thought:
A North-South Conversation
Session 1: 4 October, 2022
Contrastando teorías críticas. Encuentros y desencuentros entre la teoría crítica latinoamericana y la escuela de Frankfurt
Cesar Ortega, UV
Session 2: 11 October, 2022
La invisibilización de la colonialidad: El control del ser, saber y del poder
Sabine Heiss, Florida Universitaria
Session 3: 18 October, 2022
La teoría del reconocimiento como teoría crítica de la sociedad
Hernán Martínez Ferro, Escuela de Filosofía Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
All sessions take place from 18:30 to 20:30 in lecture room 3A2 of the departmental building of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universitat de València.
Organised by the UV Research Group on Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School www.uv.es/critica.
Co-organised by the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences of the Universitat de València - Research line seminar (specific training activity - code 50030) –
Programme
Critical Theory and Decolonial Thought:
A North-South Conversation
Session 1: 4 October, from 18:30 to 20:30 in lecture room 3A2 of the departmental building of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universitat de València
Contrastando teorías críticas. Encuentros y desencuentros entre la teoría crítica latinoamericana y la escuela de Frankfurt
Cesar Ortega, UV
This session discusses two approaches of critical thinking that seek to understand contemporary societies and their problematic phenomena at local and global levels. Although both share several analytical principles, each line of thought draws on different genealogies, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Alongside a review of the divergences between decolonial thought and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, points of convergence between the two approaches to emancipatory political proposals will be presented.
Suggested reading:
Andrade Guevara, Víctor Manuel. (2019). La Teoría Crítica y el pensamiento decolonial: hacia un proyecto emancipatorio post-occidental. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, [S.l.], v. 65, n. 238.
http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2020.238.67363.
Session 2: 11 October, from 18:30 to 20:30 in lecture room 3A2 of the departmental building of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universitat de València
La invisibilización de la colonialidad: El control del ser, saber y del poder
Sabine Heiss, Florida Universitaria
Decolonial theory shares with many critical approaches the idea that coloniality takes place in a space of social construction where the visible and the invisible are negotiated. The aim of the presentation is to shed light on the potential of critical theories for decolonial theory and to understand colonialities as a game of visibilisation and invisibilisation. The three dimensions of coloniality: of being, of knowledge and of power, are therefore covered.
Suggested reading:
No prior reading is required.
Session 3: 18 October, from 18:30 to 20:30 in lecture room 3A2 of the departmental building of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universitat de València
La teoría del reconocimiento como teoría crítica de la sociedad
Hernán Martínez Ferro, Escuela de Filosofía Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
This session discusses how Axel Honneth's theory of reciprocal recognition aims to meet the demands of social critique that the Frankfurt School has been proposing since its beginnings. The method of normative reconstruction proposed by Honneth, inspired by Hegel's philosophy of law, will allow us to discuss the presuppositions and scope of social critique, as well as to reconsider the possibilities of human emancipation.
Suggested reading:
Axel Honneth (2011): «La dinámica social del desprecio: hacia una ubicación de la teoría crítica de la sociedad» en: La sociedad del desprecio. Madrid: Trotta, pp. 127-146. Traducción: Francesc Hernández y Benno Herzog.
No prior registration is required.
To receive the suggested reading texts you can send an email to critica@uv.es
Organised by the UV Research Group on Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School www.uv.es/critica.
Co-organised by the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences of the Universitat de València - Research line seminar (specific training activity - code 50030) –
