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Research Group on Critical Theory - TCr

Description

Research on Critical Theory in social sciences and humanities. Research and translations are carried out on authors related to the Research Institute of the University of Frankfurt, home of the so-called Critical Theory in philosophy and sociology, such as: T. W. Adorno, W. Benjamin, J. Habermas, A. Honneth, S. Kracauer, etc., as well as its sources in the philosophy of Hegel and Marx. This research is applied to philosophical (aesthetics, philosophy of law, history of philosophy, theory of the arts) and sociological (sociological discourse analysis, discrimination, sociological theory) fields. 

The research group collaborates with the social science doctoral lines on social pathologies, pathologies of reason and social and sociological theory.

Goals CT
  • To update and disseminate Critical Theory and to respond to current problems from a historical-conceptual foundation.
Research lines
Non-UV research staff

Col·laboradores/as

  • Júlio Antonio Bonatti Santos - Universitat de València 
  • Sabine Heiss - Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla) 

Equipo de trabajo

  • Gianfracno Casuso - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Perú) 
  • Daniel Feierstein - Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 
  • José Manuel Romero Cuevas
Associated structure
Institute of Educational Creativity and Innovation
Contact group details
Critical Theory (TCr)

Tarongers Campus

Faculty of Social Science
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Office 4D11. Av. Tarongers s/n, 4b

46021 València (Valencia)

+34 961 625 930

Geolocation

www.uv.es/critica

critica@uv.es