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CRITICAL THEORY Past, Present, Future Anders Bartonek and Sven-Olov Wallensein (Eds.) SÖDERTÖRN PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
CRITICAL THEORY Past, Present, Future Anders Bartonek and Sven-Olov Wallensein (eds.) SÖDERTÖRN PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES The series is attached to Philosophy at Sder- trn University. Published in the series are es- says as well as anthologies, with a particular em- phasis on the continental tradition, understood in its broadest sense, from German idealism to phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory and contemporary French philosophy. The com- mission of the series is to provide a platform for the promotion of timely and innovative phil- osophical research. Contributions to the series are published in English or Swedish. Cover image: Kristofer Nilson, System (Portrait of a Swedish Tax Form), 2020, Lead pencil drawing on chalk paint, on mdf 59.2 x 42 cm. Photo: Jesper Petersen. Te Swedish tax form is one of many systems designed to handle and present information. Mapped onto the surface of an artwork, it opens a free space; an untouched surface where everything can exist at the same time. Kristofer Nilson Critical Theory Past, Present, Future Edited by Anders Bartonek & Sven-Olov Wallenstein Sdertrns hgskola Sdertrns University Library SE-141 89 Huddinge www.sh.se/publications © the Authors Published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Cover layout: Jonathan Robson Graphic form: Per Lindblom & Jonathan Robson Printed by Elanders, Stockholm 2021 Sdertrn Philosophical Studies 28 ISSN 1651-6834 Sdertrn Academic Studies 83 ISSN 1650-433X ISBN 978-91-89109-35-3 (print) ISBN 978-91-89109-36-0 (digital) Contents Introduction -
Against 'Effective Altruism'
Against ‘Effective Altruism’ Alice Crary Effective Altruism (EA) is a programme for rationalising for the most part adopt the attitude that they have no charitable giving, positioning individuals to do the ‘most serious critics and that sceptics ought to be content with good’ per expenditure of money or time. It was first for- their ongoing attempts to fine-tune their practice. mulated – by two Oxford philosophers just over a decade It is a posture belied by the existence of formidable ago–as an application of the moral theory consequential- critical resources both inside and outside the philosoph- ism, and from the outset one of its distinctions within ical tradition in which EA originates. In light of the undis- the philanthropic world was expansion of the class of puted impact of EA, and its success in attracting idealistic charity-recipients to include non-human animals. EA young people, it is important to forcefully make the case has been the target of a fair bit of grumbling, and even that it owes its success primarily not to the – question- some mockery, from activists and critics on the left, who able – value of its moral theory but to its compatibility associate consequentialism with depoliticising tenden- with political and economic institutions responsible for cies of welfarism. But EA has mostly gotten a pass, with some of the very harms it addresses. The sincere ded- many detractors concluding that, however misguided, its ication of many individual adherents notwithstanding, efforts to get bankers, tech entrepreneurs and the like to reflection on EA reveals a straightforward example of give away their money cost-effectively does no serious moral corruption. -
I Am in Training: Wittgenstein on Language Acquisition Megan J
150 Wittgenstein on Language Acquisition I Am in Training: Wittgenstein on Language Acquisition Megan J. Laverty Teachers College, Columbia University Norm Friesen’s analysis of Wittgenstein as a tragic philosopher of education draws upon an understanding of Wittgenstein’s German influences: Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Karl Kraus, Alfred Loos, Otto Wininger, and Oswald Spengler. According to Friesen, these influences share “a dark view of the world and our place within it,” which inspired Wittgenstein’s deeply pessimistic philosophy of education. Friesen argues that Wittgenstein deliberately brings the experience of learning a language into relation with the way “we talk of an animal being trained to do certain things” in order to highlight that the process of becom- ing a cultured or “conventionalized” being — otherwise known as humanization — necessarily entails “renunciation and brutality.” Friesen may be right that En- glish-speaking philosophers of education have failed to appreciate the full force of Wittgenstein on Abrichtung — the breaking in of an animal by means of obedience training or dressage — but he does not go all the way to establishing that Abrichtung is characteristically brutal and harsh. Wittgenstein uses the word Abrichtung to describe language learning and ed- ucation. As Wolfgang Huemer explains, in German the term is “exclusively used for animals, for training dogs to sit down on the command ‘sit,’ or horses to gallop when the rider performs a certain bodily movement.”1 Thus, to German speakers, Wittgenstein’s suggestion that “we have to abrichten our children” seems quite drastic; it implies that children are animals. According to Friesen, English-speaking philos- ophers of education are inclined to explain away Wittgenstein’s reliance upon the term, and so make his philosophy of education appear far more progressive than it is. -
CRITICAL TERMS for ANIMAL STUDIES
CRITICAL TERMS for ANIMAL STUDIES Edited by LORI GRUEN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS Chicago and London Contents Introduction • Lori Gruen 1 1 Abolition • Claire Jean Kim 15 2 Activism • Jeff Sebo and Peter Singer 33 3 Anthropocentrism • Fiona Probyn- Rapsey 47 4 Behavior • Alexandra Horowitz 64 5 Biopolitics • Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 79 6 Captivity • Lori Marino 99 7 Difference • Kari Weil 112 8 Emotion • Barbara J. King 125 9 Empathy • Lori Gruen 141 10 Ethics • Alice Crary 154 11 Extinction • Thom van Dooren 169 12 Kinship • Agustín Fuentes and Natalie Porter 182 13 Law • Kristen Stilt 197 14 Life • Eduardo Kohn 210 15 Matter • James K. Stanescu 222 16 Mind • Kristin Andrews 234 17 Pain • Victoria A. Braithwaite 251 18 Personhood • Colin Dayan 267 19 Postcolonial • Maneesha Deckha 280 20 Rationality • Christine M. Korsgaard 294 21 Representation • Robert R. McKay 307 22 Rights • Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson 320 23 Sanctuary • Timothy Pachirat 337 24 Sentience • Gary Varner 356 25 Sociality • Cynthia Willett and Malini Suchak 370 26 Species • Harriet Ritvo 383 27 Vegan • Annie Potts and Philip Armstrong 395 28 Vulnerability • Anat Pick 410 29 Welfare • Clare Palmer and Peter Sandøe 424 Acknowledgments 439 List of Contributors 441 Index 451 INTRODUCTION Lori Gruen Animal Studies is almost always described as a new, emerging, and growing field. A short while ago some Animal Studies scholars suggested that it “has a way to go before it can clearly see itself as an academic field” (Gorman 2012). Other scholars suggest that the “discipline” is a couple of decades old (DeMello 2012). -
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae Rahel Jaeggi [email protected] Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Center for Humanities and Social Change Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin I. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Social Ontology, Critical Theory, History of Critical Theory. II. EDUCATION 2009 Habilitation, Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M./Germany, on the subject of „Critique of Forms of Life“. 2002 PhD, Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M./Germany, with a dissertation on „Freedom and Indifference – A Reconstruction of the Concept of Alienation”. 1996 Magistra Artium (Master equivalent), Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on Hannah Arendt's political philosophy. III. ACADEMIC POSITIONS Since February 2018 Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. 2016 Offer of the chair for Social Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M./Germany, declined. 2009–present Professor of Social Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin/Germany. 2003–2009 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Postdoc) at the Institute for Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt a. M./Germany (Chair for Social Philosophy/Prof. Axel Honneth). 2001–2002 Research Assistant at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland. 1996–2001 Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Predoc) at the Institute for Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt a. M./Germany (Chair for Social Philosophy, Prof. Axel Honneth). 1989–1995 Studies of Philosophy, History and Theology at the Freie Universität Berlin. CV Rahel Jaeggi IV. FELLOWSHIPS AND INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2018–2019 (Sept.–Apr.) Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, School for Social Science, Princeton/USA. 2015–2016 Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York/USA. -
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum EDUCATION 1964-1966 Wellesley College 1966-1967 New York University, School of the Arts 1967-1969 New York University, Washington Square College. B.A. 1969. 1969-1975 Harvard University, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1975 (Classical Philology) 1972-1975 Harvard University, Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow 1973-1974 St. Hugh's College, Oxford University: Honorary Member of Senior Common Room EMPLOYMENT 1999-- University of Chicago, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics Appointed in Law School and Philosophy Department, 2012 -- Appointed in: Law School, Philosophy Department, and Divinity School, -2012 Associate Member, Classics Department (1995 -- ) Associate Member, Department of Political Science (2003 -- ) Associate Member, Divinity School, (2012 --) Member, Committee on Southern Asian Studies (Affiliate 1999 –2005, full Member 2006--) Board Member,, Center for Gender Studies 1999-2002 Board Member, Human Rights Program, 2002--; Co-Chair, 2007-8; Founder and Coordinator, Center for Comparative Constitutionalism, 2002 – 2007 (spring) Visiting Professor of Law and Classics, Harvard University 2004 (spring) Visiting Professor, Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 1996-1998 University of Chicago, Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics (Appointed in Law School, Philosophy Department, and Divinity School, Associate in Classics) 1996 (spring) Oxford University, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor 1995-1996 University of Chicago, Professor of Law and Ethics (Appointed in Law School, -
Re-Thinking Ideology
Call for Papers: International Summer School Critical Theory 2018 (JULY 15 – JULY 20) RE-THINKING IDEOLOGY Why do people often accept, and even embrace, social and political conditions that seem to run counter to their own interests? How is it possible that we sometimes support forms of domination with our ways of behaving and thinking without intending or even realizing it? One answer to these questions refers to the notion of ideology. Ideologies are more or less coherent systems of practices and beliefs that shape how individuals relate to their social reality in ways that distort their understanding of what is wrong with that reality and thereby contribute to its reproduction. The summer school will seek to clarify the meanings and theoretical roles of ideology, as the concept has been prominently developed from the writings of Marx via Critical Theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School to more recent debates in feminism and analytic philosophy. Key contemporary protagonists of ideology critique like Sally Haslanger, Robert Gooding-Williams, Axel Honneth, Alice Crary, Karen Ng, Titus Stahl, Robin Celikates, Martin Saar and Rahel Jaeggi will be present at the summer school and facilitate debates both of key texts from canonical authors and of their own systematic positions. We will discuss questions such as: What is ideology and in which sense are ideologies false or deficient? How do ideologies come into existence and how do they function? On which basis and from which standpoint can ideologies be criticized? What is the continuing -
Alice Crary, Wittgenstein and the Moral Life
Alice Crary, Wittgenstein and the Moral Life review by Francesco Pesci «The essays in this volume celebrate the philosophical writings of Cora Diamond» (p. 1). These are the words with which Alice Crary opens this interesting, varied and rich book. Under this common description we find eleven different contributions by some of the most important contemporary Angloamerican philosophers. Each of them has shared, more or less directly, part of his or her own intellectual biography with Cora Diamond and here takes up a particular theme in Diamond's writings. As the title suggests and as Crary reminds us in the Introduction, two main issues must be taken into account in order to have an overview of Diamond's impact: her exegetical work on early and late Wittgenstein in cooperation with James Conant – which goes under the label of 'resolute reading' – and her original and unconventional reflections on moral philosophy. The book is divided into two sections along these lines. The first, entitled Wittgenstein (pp. 27-278), contains essays by Conant, Kremer, Floyd, Putnam and Finkelstein. The second, entitled The Moral Life (pp. 279-404), contains essays by Cavell, McDowell, Lovibond, Nussbaum, Mulhall and Crary. Although the thematic division of the book tries to give it some organization, the reader cannot avoid a certain sense of fragmentation among the chapters which, far from being inevitable in a collective volume, makes it difficult to give a synthetic and comprehensive outline of the book. This is certainly an excellent book and a valid instrument to start assessing the outcome of Diamond's work as a whole and to evaluate Diamond's influence on contemporary philosophy. -
Alice Crary, Radical Animal
Alice Crary, Radical Animal This book brings out how concern about the plight of animals is necessary for combating not only animals’ mistreatment but also the oppression of vulnerable humans, and it proceeds by exploring productive responses to some of the many—historical and current—patterns of belief and practice in which groups of humans beings are subjugated by means of invidious comparisons to animals or animalized. For publications that anticipate the book’s guiding narrative, as well as its treatment of animalization on the basis of cognitive ability and race, see: “Dehumanization and the Question of Animals,” in Maria Kronfeldner, ed., Routledge Handbook on Dehumanization, London: Routledge, forthcoming. “Seeing Animal Suffering,” in Maria Balaska, ed., Cora Diamond on Ethics, London: Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming. “Animals, Cognitive Disability and Getting the World in Focus in Ethics and Social Thought: Reply to Eva Feder Kittay and Peter Singer,” Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 2019, vol.2, no.1: 139-146. This is my response to Singer’s and Kittay’s remarks on my article “The Horrific History of Comparisons between Cognitive Disability and Animality (And How to Move Past it)”. “Comments on a Contested Comparison: Race and Animals,” in Oskari Kuusela and Benjamin De Mesel, Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein, London: Routledge, 2019. A German translation of this article will also appear as “Animalität und Ethnizität,” Malte Fabian Rauch, trans., in Martin Hähnel und Jörg Noller, eds., Die Natur der Lebensform: Perspektiven in Biologie, Ontologie und Praktischer Philosophie. “The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Animals and Cognitively Disabled Human Beings (and How to Move Past it)” in Lori Gruen and Fiona Probyn Rapsey, eds., Animaladies, Bloomsbury, 2018. -
Trivium , 32- Institutions Rahel Jaeggi – Notice 2
Trivium Revue franco-allemande de sciences humaines et sociales - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 32- Institutions Rahel Jaeggi – notice Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/trivium/7352 ISSN: 1963-1820 Publisher Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme Electronic reference « Rahel Jaeggi – notice », Trivium [En ligne], 32- Institutions, mis en ligne le 28 janvier 2021, consulté le 29 janvier 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/trivium/7352 This text was automatically generated on 29 January 2021. Les contenus des la revue Trivium sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. Rahel Jaeggi – notice 1 Rahel Jaeggi – notice Trivium , 32- Institutions Rahel Jaeggi – notice 2 1 Rahel Jaeggi est, depuis 2009, professeur de philosophie pratique (spécialité : philosophie sociale) et directrice (depuis 2018) du Center for Humanities and Social Change à l’Université Humboldt de Berlin. Elle a fait des études de philosophie, d‘histoire et de théologie à l’Université Libre de Berlin puis à l’Université de Francfort- sur-le-Main, où elle a obtenu son doctorat en 2002 et son habilitation en 2009. Elle a été chercheuse (de 1996 à 2001) puis maître de conférences (2003-2009) à la chaire de philosophie sociale d’Axel Honneth à l’Université de Francfort-sur-le-Main et à l’Université de Saint-Gall (2001-2002). En tant que professeur invité, elle a enseigné à Yale, New Haven (2002-2003), à l’Université Fudan à Shanghai (sept.-oct. 2012) et à la New School for Social Research à New York (2015-2016). -
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UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Political Deficits: The Dawn of Neoliberal Rationality and the Eclipse of Critical Theory Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9p0574bc Author Callison, William Andrew Publication Date 2019 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Political Deficits: The Dawn of Neoliberal Rationality and the Eclipse of Critical Theory By William Andrew Callison A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Wendy Brown, Chair Professor Pheng Cheah Professor Kinch Hoekstra Professor Martin Jay Professor Hans Sluga Professor Shannon C. Stimson Summer 2019 Political Deficits: The Dawn of Neoliberal Rationality and the Eclipse of Critical Theory Copyright © 2019 William Andrew Callison All rights reserved. Abstract Political Deficits: The Dawn of Neoliberal Rationality and the Eclipse of Critical Theory By William Andrew Callison Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory University of California, Berkeley Professor Wendy Brown, Chair This dissertation examines the changing relationship between social science, economic governance, and political imagination over the past century. It specifically focuses on neoliberal, ordoliberal and neo-Marxist visions of politics and rationality from the interwar period to the recent Eurocrisis. Beginning with the Methodenstreit (or “methodological dispute”) between Gustav von Schmoller and Carl Menger and the subsequent “socialist calculation debate” about markets and planning, the dissertation charts the political and epistemological formation of the Austrian School (e.g., Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. -
Editors' Introduction
Editors’ Introduction Extending the Boundaries of “The Ethical” I also think that quite clearly, even if it is not as simple as that, even if animals are not considered as human beings, the ethical extends to living beings. I really think so. —Emmanuel Levinas, “The Animal Interview” Since the topic of Levinas and animals has by now received rather a lot of attention, the reader may be wondering why we felt compelled to compile this volume of essays. The short answer is that though Levinas’s neglect of animals in his philosophical work has already been subject to repeated criticism,1 the majority of commentators and critics still write as though Levinas’s “profound anthropocentrism and humanism”2 rather than a serious flaw in need of remedy, were entirely justified. Most take it for granted that it is not possible for the Other to be anything other than human. Only posterity knows whether this will ever change, though it looks unlikely that it will. This is not due to any deficiencies in the arguments for including animals within the scope of Levinas’s ethics. It is probably because the force behind the conviction that humans are the center of the moral universe is more affective than philosophical, and wells from the same source as what Freud called “the universal narcissism of men.” But even if a single collection of essays like this one is unlikely to make much of a difference here, it behooves us as academics to keep reminding ourselves that the animal question is a live one and as long as an ethics like Levinas’s does not take the question into account, then so much the worse for it philosophically.