Platypus Hamburg Ferien-Lesekreis 2022: Was ist Gesellschaft?
dienstags, 18 - 21 Uhr
Café Knallhart, VMP 9, Campus Uni Hamburg
“Society is a reality sui generis; it has its own characteristics that are either not found in the rest of the universe or are not found there in the same form."
"Society is a sui generis being with its own special nature, distinct from that of its members, and a personality of its own different from individual personalities."
-- Emile Durkheim
Die Texte werden im Voraus gelesen und dann zusammen diskutiert. Alle sind herzlich willkommen!
â—Ź vorausgesetzte Texte
+ zusätzliche, empfohlene Texte
Vorausgesetzte HintergrundlektĂĽre:
• Chris Cutrone, "Back to Herbert Spencer! Industrial vs. militant society" (2016) [audio]
Empfohlene, zusätzliche Hintergrundtexte:
+ Adorno, "Static and Dynamic as Sociological Categories" (1961)
+ Adorno, Introduction to Sociology1962 lectures
+ Adorno, Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society 1964 lectures
+ Adorno, Philosophy and Sociology 1960 lectures
Einleitende Texte:
• Adorno, “Gesellschaft” (1965; in: Adorno, Soziologische Schriften I; wird auf Anfrage per Email verschickt)
• Benjamin Constant: „Von der Freiheit des Altertums, verglichen mit der Freiheit der Gegenwart”(1819)
Schaubilder und Begriffe:
+ Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
1. Woche: 16. August 2022
• Adorno, “Gesellschaft” (1965; in Adorno, Soziologische Schriften I)
+ Chris Cutrone, "Gillian Rose's 'Hegelian' critique of Marxism" (2010)
• Gillian Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology (1981/95) selections: Preface for 1995 reprint, 1. The Antinomies of Sociological Reason, 7. With What Must the Science End?
2. Woche: 23. August 2022
• Epigraphe über moderne Geschichte und Freiheit von Louis Menand (über Marx und Engels), und Karl Marx, über das „Werden“ (Aus den Grundrissen, 1857-58)
• Max Weber, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904-1905) Auswahl: Vorbemerkung, Teil 1, I. Kapitel 1-3, Teil 1., II. (+ Kapitel 1,) Kapitel 2 [wird per Email verschickt, bitte anfragen]
3. Woche: 30. August 2022
• Auguste Comte, Introduction to Positive Philosophy (1830-42) I. The nature and importance of the positive philosophy; The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte vol. III Bk. VI. Social Physics pp. 1-11, 199-216, 277-344 [PDF Positive Philosophy of Comte selections]; A General View of PositivismCh. II. The Social Aspect of Positivism pp. 63-78, Ch. VI. The Religion of Humanity pp. 340-426 [PDF General View of Positivism selections]
+ Chris Cutrone, "Ends of philosophy" (2018)
4. Woche: 6. September 2022
+ Chris Cutrone, "Back to Herbert Spencer! Industrial vs. militant society" (2016) [audio]
• Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Vol. I Part I The Data of Sociology Ch. I-IV pp. 3-40 [PDF] and Part II The Inductions of Sociology Ch. I-II pp. 447-462 [PDF]; On Social Evolution (Univ. Chicago selections): IV 15–16 Societal Typologies, Militancy and Industrialism and V 18–19 Ceremonial and Political Institutions; The Man Versus the State VI The Great Political Superstition [PDF selection]
5. Woche: 13. September 2022
• Emile Durkheim, "The principles of 1789 and sociology" (1890); V Social Creativity Ch. 11-12; alles in On Morality and Society
• Emile Durkheim (1912): Die elementaren Formen des religiösen Lebens, Einleitung
6. Woche: 20. September 2022
• Durkheim, Chapter 10. "The dualism of human nature and its social conditions" (1914), Ch. 4. "Individualism and the intellectuals" (1898); IV The Evolution of Morality Ch. 6, in On Morality and Society
• Durkheim: Über soziale Arbeitsteilung (1893) Vorwort zur ersten Ausgabe und Einleitung
7. Woche: 27. September 2022
• Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society (1893) selections IV. The Evolution of Morality Chapters 7-9, in On Morality and Society;
• Durkheim: Über soziale Arbeitsteilung, Vorwort zur zweiten Ausgabe
8. Woche: 4. Oktober 2022
• Frankfurt School, Aspects of Sociology (1956) selections: Preface by Horkheimer and Adorno, Chapters I-VI, XII
• Adorno: “Gesellschaft” (1965)
+ Adorno, "Static and Dynamic as Sociological Categories" (1961)