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Capital, Ecology, Critique II (Englisch)

Jan Slaby

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Hinweis für Lehramtsstudierende im Modul "Didaktik Angewandter
Philosophie": Bitte nutzen Sie vorzugsweise das zusätzliche Lehrangebot im kommenden Wintersemester 24/25 zu den Themen der Didaktik Angewandter Ethik und Tierethik, das spezifisch didaktisch ausgerichtet sein wird.
Bei Rückfragen zur Studienplanung zu diesem Modul wenden Sie sich bitte an die Studienberatung Lehramt: https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/studieren/studienberatung/index.html
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Anthropogenic global warming has caused massive disruptions to ecosystems and human societies, and its effects will get progressively worse in the mid- and long term. This research-based MA course aims at an in-depth exploration of the ecological crisis in view of its historical development, its economical and societal root causes in global capitalism, its political dynamics and in view of contemporary efforts to tackle it on the terrain of political and societal mobilization. Philosophy makes contact with political economy, geography, sociology, cultural anthropology, political theory, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, global history, post- and decolonial theory, and related fields. Among the questions we ask are the following: What is to be done in the face of the ecological crisis and its systemic causes? How to theorize both the causes of the crisis and the task of organizing enlightened resistance to it in a way that is politically potent, inclusive and potentially majoritarian? The course continues the class from winter term 2023/24, but new participants are very welcome. The winter term was devoted mainly to studying and discussing current literature, while the course in the summer term 2024 will be devoted to a more practical agenda, singling out themes for in-depth research in student working groups. The first weeks of the class offer a recap of the main results of the prior course. close