16095
Hauptseminar
Romanticism and Critical Theory (Englisch)
Federica Gregoratto
Kommentar
The seminar explores Pre-Hegelian German and Post-Hegelian English Romanticism as sources for conceptual tools that can be proven useful in political philosophy and critical social philosophy today.
This might appear as an odd undertaking, especially if we are influenced by the prejudice, formulated initially a.o. by Georg Lukács, that reduces Romanticism to a form of anti-rationalist aestheticism, promoting anti-democratic ideas and regressive tendencies. As others have convincingly argued, though, some Romantic texts and voices do share a commitment to progressive and emancipatory social criticism of the Post-French revolution capitalist society. To prove this, the seminar seeks to examine and discuss some writers – e.g. Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Karoline von Günderrode, Percy B. Shelley, Mary Shelley – who have elaborated on themes and concepts in ways that can inspire and foster critical and transformative work. In particular, we will concentrate on how these authors have figured out the relation between human beings and human and non-human natures, the role of emotions and affects in human forms of life, relationships of gender, sexuality and class, reciprocal recognition. We will also reflect upon the relation between conceptual and nonconceptual forms of writing and expression for the aims of a critical theory of society.
Schließen
15 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Di, 16.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 23.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 30.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 07.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 14.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 21.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 28.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 04.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 11.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 18.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 25.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 02.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 09.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 16.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 23.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00