Sign-up Sheet for CTWG Late Fall / Early Winter 2023 – The Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung: Organon of Early Critical Theory
New reading group! Late Fall / Early Winter 2023. The Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung: Organon of Early Critical Theory.
Sign-up here for the late fall / early winter (Nov-Dec) ’23 session of the critical theory working group, which will focus on some of the strongest and strangest articles of the first nine volumes of the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (1932-1941). Once signed up, you will receive emails with reading materials for each meeting a week in advance and audio recordings of each meeting the day after.
Dates and schedule for mid-November/mid-December meetings
For the late fall / early winter 2023 session, we’ll meet every Saturday at @1-3PM over Zoom for five consecutive weeks for guided discussion of texts and topics from the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (1932-1941) chosen and introduced by CTWG members.
Introduction to The Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung: Organon of Early Critical Theory (1932-1941).
Saturday, November 18th – Report on CTWG Activities (2023); Theoretical-Historical Introduction to the ZfS. Presentation and Discussion by James/Crane.
Full Texts: Horkheimer, “The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research” (1931), “Notes on Science and the Crisis” (1932). Adorno, “The Actuality of Philosophy” (1931).
Recommended Texts / Selections from: Horkheimer, “History and Psychology” (1932); Adorno, “On the Social Situation of Music” (1932); Erich Fromm, “The Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology” (1932); Leo Löwenthal, “On Sociology of Literature” (1932).
Focused Group Studies of ZfS Texts and Topics
Saturday, November 25th – Marcuse, “The Concept of Essence” (1936). Introduction and Discussion by Mac Parker.
Saturday, December 2nd – Horkheimer, “A New Concept of Ideology?” (1930). Introduction and Discussion by Sam Thomas.
Saturday, December 9th – Selections from: Horkheimer, “Materialism and Morality” (1933) and “Materialism and Metaphysics” (1933). Introduction and Discussion by Esther Planas Balduz.
Saturday, December 16th – Selections from: Adorno, In Search of Wagner (1938/1952). Introduction and Discussion by Zachary Loeffler.
