In this text seminar participants get acquainted with recent work in social ontology; including critical social ontology and social theory as well as so called collective intentionality -approach. The aim is to get to know recently published work and unpublished manuscript texts. The topics may include power, social structures, hierarchies, oppression. It is aimed at advanced masters students and doctoral students. The texts will be available either from the library or moodle. Online participation is possible. Depending on the interests of the participants, we can still decide which texts to read. Different texts may have different emphasis.
Not everyone reads the whole text in the book meetings; over the course, the amount of reading is around 4OO pages for 5 credits; and around 2OO pages for 3 credits.
There will be three meetings on whole books, such as
9. Oct, Olli Herranen, The Invisible Order, To be confirmed
13. Nov Katherine Jenkins, Ontology and Oppression, TBC
4 Dec. Arto Laitinen, Collective Intentionality manuscript; TBC.
The books will be distributed in moodle/library in good time beforehand.
In addition, meetings 11 Sep, 18 Sep, 25 Sep introductory discussions on recent critical theory and social ontology.
11. Sep General introduction to the course. A brief lecture on critical social theory: Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism/AL. Participants: discussion, no preparation.
18. Sep Reading: Manuscript discussion on Realism in Social Ontology, manuscript distributed 11 Sep. Really brief presentations by participants, who take the course for credits. Half a page summary of a section.
25. Sep Lecture on critical social theory: Can affluence be a social pathology, like poverty? What about economic compulsion for all?/ AL. Participants: Discussion, no preparation.
Voluntary background reading: Hegel and the Problem of Affluence, Thimo Heisenberg.
The topics for the following meetings announced later:
23. Oct Lecture + discussion, no preparation.
30. Oct Lecture + discussion, no preparation
20. Nov Lecture + discussion, no preparation.
27. Nov Lecture + discussion, no preparation
No meetings on 2 Oct, 16 Oct, 6 Nov.
- Teacher: Arto Laitinen