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Social Theory From The Second Person Perspective, Connor Cosgrove May 2024

Social Theory From The Second Person Perspective, Connor Cosgrove

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This paper relies on the work of Charles Taylor, Rahel Jaeggi, and Harmut Rosa to develop a method of ‘second-person critique.’ This is developed in opposition to first-person critique, otherwise known as self criticism, and third-person critique, which I take to be representative of instrumental reason. I criticize instrumental reason from Taylor’s perspective, while also relying on Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber to do the same. To further develop Rosa’s theory of resonance, I rely on David Graeber. I conclude by suggesting that while phenomenology has long accounted for our embodied relationship to the world, a ‘resonant phenomenology’ that includes …


Reasoning In Transitions: A Critique For Social Values, Shawn Robert Stickney Mr. May 2023

Reasoning In Transitions: A Critique For Social Values, Shawn Robert Stickney Mr.

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I consider two variants of immanent critique ala Jaeggi and Putnam which both seem wedded to forms of metaphysical realism, and I intend to show how Rorty’s denial of the ‘functional’ as a category weighs against Jaeggi’s account of the role of “functional-ethical” norms in the analysis of real crisis. I argue that Jaeggi’s ‘immanent’ criticism relies on untenable metaphysical notions of progress and that, despite her argument that immanent critique draws its own standards from the object of criticism, she ends up sneaking strong foundations into her critique through her notion of crisis. Charles Taylor provides a non-foundational model …


Lukácsian Reification In The Twenty-First Century, Dominic Kenneth Mario Pizzolitto Nov 2019

Lukácsian Reification In The Twenty-First Century, Dominic Kenneth Mario Pizzolitto

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This paper examines Lukácsian reification in order to assess its relevance for contemporary critical theory.