From Community to Institution: Contemporary Social Philosophy

Scope

cr 1-2

Teachers

Prof. Dr. Gintautas Mažeikis (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)

Time, location and registration

Time 19.5. 2009 - 20.5.2009
Registration time in webOodi 27.4.2009 - 20.5.2009

19.5. - 20.5.2009. 10-14 a.m. Siltavuorenpenger (S20A) sh 222.

Content

19.5. Lecture: From personality to subject: crisis of philosophical anthropology, personalism and rising of discoursive philosophy. Seminar: Between human being and subject: from domestic bestiality to depersonalization of subject. Question: What kind of desubjectivation is possible?

20.5. Lecture: Communitarianism versus institutionalism. Destruction of Ethos and Oikos and rising of institutional orders and simulacrums. Seminar: Differences of symbolical worlds: Oikos, community, institution, state. What does communication between symbolical worlds mean for identity process of individuals?

Literature:

  • Althusser L. “Ideology and ideological state apparatuses”. From: Althusser L. 1993. Essays on Ideology. London and New York: Verso. P. 100 – 132.
  • Adorno T., Horkheimer M. “Excursus II: Juliette or Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, from: Adorno T., Horkheimer M. 2002. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press. P. 63 – 93
  • Derrida J. 2004. La Bête et le Souverain. In: La Démocratie à venir. Autour de Jacques Derrida. Paris: Galilée, P. 433 -476.
  • Habermas J. “Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution”, From: Habermas J. 1990. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press. P. 327 – 335.
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