PHIL0228-1 : Social philosophy

Study Programmes 2016-2017

WARNING : 2015-2016 version of the course specifications

PHIL0228-1

Social philosophy

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Master in philosophy (120 ECTS)		5

Lecturer :

Grégory Cormann, Jérémy Hamers

Coordinator :

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Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

The course will be dedicated to the written work of the German essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger. We will mainly focus on some essays ("Mediocrity and Delusion", "The radical Loser", "Constituents of a Theory of the Media" a.o.) . These works will undergo a double process of recontextualization by the identification of explicit and implicit links between Enzensberger's essays and some of the keyworks of 1/ the Critical Theory (mainly Adorno and Horkheimer); 2/ the French contemporary political and social philosophy as well as the critical sociology (Sartre, Bourdieu, Goldmann a.o.).

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

The students will be able to analyze different essays by Hans Magnus Enzensberger in order to reveal their numerous links and to resituate them in a broader context of the intellectual transfers between France and Germany at their time of publication.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Seminar. After some introductory sessions by the holders of the course, each session will be provided by a different researcher (in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, psychology, literature, media theory).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face.