Philosophy of Capitalism 500-ERA-7PHC

Field of study: Philosophy.
Level of education: master.
Course profile: general academic
Form of study: full-time.
Course type: obligatory subject, basic module.
Field of study: humanities, discipline: philosophy.
Year of study/semester: II, II semester (summer)

Prerequisites: none
Didactic methods - in-class meetings and consultations.

Number of teaching hours: exercises - 30 hours.
ECTS points: 3.

Total student workload: 75 hours, including: participation in exercises: 30 hrs; preparation for classes, credits, exams: 40 hrs; participation in consultations, exams: 5 hrs.

Quantitative indicators: the student workload related to the activities that require direct participation of the teacher - 35 hours (1.4 ECTS), the student workload related to the activities of practical character - 40 hours (1.6 ECTS).

W cyklu 2024:

The course tells the story of capitalism: the social system in which we live. We begin with the origins of the system. Is capitalism a secular extension of Protestantism or Judaism (Weber, Sombart)? What is primary accumulation (Marx)? We further touch on the historical phases the system went through (Jameson). What happened to capitalism under the influence of the countercultural revolution of the 1960s (Marcuse)? Why did the Internet also change almost everything for capitalism? Can capitalism be replaced by something (Boltanski)? Why do we need economic growth (Bataille)? What effect do the inequalities created by capitalism have on us? We end with a trip to the future and a consideration of the metaphysical sense of the capitalist economy (Lyotard).

Rodzaj przedmiotu

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Założenia (opisowo)

The course in the philosophy of capitalism is designed to familiarize students with the most important problems that, from a philosophical perspective, are associated with the functioning of the capitalist system and to develop in them the ability to critically analyze it.

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Wioletta Kowalska
Bartosz Kuźniarz

Efekty kształcenia

N/A

Kryteria oceniania

The assessment is based on active participation in the classes: attendance, taking part in discussions, sharing your reflections and questions on the texts under discussion, presenting and arguing your own position, and giving a presentation summarizing the text under discussion, presenting the points of contention and questions for discussion.

Attendance is compulsory. One unexcused absence is allowed. If the limit is exceeded, the student is required to demonstrate knowledge of the required literature during individual consultations.

Literatura

1. General Economy

Georges Bataille, Economy at the Scale of the Universe: Brief, Preliminary Notes toward an Essay on “General Economy” to Appear under the Title: The Accursed Share, [in:] Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, edited and translated by Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliottp, MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma. 2022, 119-125.

Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy: Volume I: Consumption, Zone Books, New York 1988, s. 9-41.

2. Solar Economy

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Can Thought Go On Without a Body?, [in:] Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, translated by Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby,
Polity Press, Oxford 1991, pp. 9-23.

Bartosz Kuzniarz, Lyotard and the Inhuman Mode of Production, [in:] Lyotard and Critical Practice, edited by Kiff Bamford and Margret Grebowicz, Bloomsbury Academic, London 2023, pp. 111-123.

3. The Being of Capital

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated and with an Introduction by William Lovitt, Garland Publishing, New York & London 1977, pp. 3-35.

4. The Spectre of Capital

Slavoj Zizek, Spectre of Capital [in:], Slavoj Zizek, The Fragile Absolute: or, why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?, Verso, New York 2001.

5. The Man of Capital

Herbert Marcuse, The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation, [in:] Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society, Penguin Classics, London and New York 2002, pp. 59-86.

6. Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, [in:] Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, London and New York 1991, pp. 1-54.

7. The Spirtit of Capitalism

Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, General Introduction: On the Spirit of Capitalism and the Role of Critique, [in:] Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, translated by Gregory Elliott, Verso, London and New York 2005, p. 3-30.

Uwagi

W cyklu 2024:

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