Course Description: Money is a medium with which we acquire goods and services necessary for our ... more Course Description: Money is a medium with which we acquire goods and services necessary for our survival and prosperity. Yet we tend to desire much money, probably far more than we need. Our attachment to money often becomes so disturbingly excessive that we seem to forget the fact that money as such is nothing in and of itself. This growing fascination with money, however, is intimately related to the expansion of market society, where the primary interaction among people takes the form of economic transaction.
It is widely believed that the free market reflects a natural order in economic realm. Yet the free market is above all a political construction invented in the modern age to answer a number of political and social problems at stake. Originally optimistic, its foundations were challenged in the 19 th century by reactionary pessimism and radical criticism. Neoliberalism took shape in the latter half of the 20 th century, and the collapse of soviet communism seemed to confirm what neo-liberals had long proclaimed: the supremacy of market economies and the universal denominator of money value. That brief period is now behind us and we confront a new pluralism of beliefs and opinions.
In this course we will be concerned with texts mostly in political and social theory from 18 th century to present: canonical authors such as Georg Simmel, Karl Polanyi, John Dewey as well as contemporary theorists including Wendy Brown, Byung-Chul Han, and Maurizio Lazzarato. Our purpose is the interrogation of those along three dimensions: money as constitutive of the modern self; the relationship among property, market, and politics; and finally the economic crisis and its positive and negative effects on democratic politics.
Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about mutual disrespect and civic enmity among democ... more Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about mutual disrespect and civic enmity among democratic citizens. Ordinary people often find themselves in a particularly adversarial condition in which they shamelessly disregard their opponents and hold them in contempt, and vice versa. Each tends to assert their superiority while appearing to be impudent to one another. Instead of simply calling for mutual respect—deliberative or agonistic—this article aims to understand why people are prone to treating their opponents with disrespect in such an impassioned situation and how to temper the pleasing sense of superiority while redirecting its very motivational power toward better ends. Drawing primarily from Aristotle's Rhetoric, my account of magnanimity shows that the magnanimous can better manage to interact with their opponents, retaining their sense of superiority necessary for active political participation while at once preventing themselves from the downward spiral of the politics of impudence.
에밀 뒤르케임은 대표적인 근대 사회과학의 아버지이자 가장 영향력 있는 사회이론가임에도, 그간 정치사상 학계에서는 그에 대한 연구가 그리 많지 않았던 것이 사실이다. 그러나 이... more 에밀 뒤르케임은 대표적인 근대 사회과학의 아버지이자 가장 영향력 있는 사회이론가임에도, 그간 정치사상 학계에서는 그에 대한 연구가 그리 많지 않았던 것이 사실이다. 그러나 이 글은 특별히 『직업윤리와 시민도덕』에서의 민주주의에 대한 논의를 중점적으로 분석하며, 뒤르케임을 정치사상가로서 조명하고자 한다. 그러기 위해서 이 글은 먼저 스펜서와 칸트, 그리고 프래그머티즘에 대한 뒤르케임의 비판을 살펴봄으로써 뒤르케임 식의 사회구성적 관점의 개인주의를 고찰한 뒤, 민주주의에 대한 뒤르케임의 비정통적인 해석에 주목한다. ‘인민들의 직접 지배’라는 현혹적인 이상을 거부하는 뒤르케임은, 통치의식의 확대, 간접성, 그리고 소통을 중심으로 근대 대의 민주주의의 특징을 설명한다. 마지막으로 직업집단 등의 이차 집단의 활성화를 통해 사회적 연대 형성을 역설하는 뒤르케임의 주장을 함께 검토하면서, 뒤르케임의 민주주의론이 가지는 의의를 알아본다.
Course Description: Money is a medium with which we acquire goods and services necessary for our ... more Course Description: Money is a medium with which we acquire goods and services necessary for our survival and prosperity. Yet we tend to desire much money, probably far more than we need. Our attachment to money often becomes so disturbingly excessive that we seem to forget the fact that money as such is nothing in and of itself. This growing fascination with money, however, is intimately related to the expansion of market society, where the primary interaction among people takes the form of economic transaction.
It is widely believed that the free market reflects a natural order in economic realm. Yet the free market is above all a political construction invented in the modern age to answer a number of political and social problems at stake. Originally optimistic, its foundations were challenged in the 19 th century by reactionary pessimism and radical criticism. Neoliberalism took shape in the latter half of the 20 th century, and the collapse of soviet communism seemed to confirm what neo-liberals had long proclaimed: the supremacy of market economies and the universal denominator of money value. That brief period is now behind us and we confront a new pluralism of beliefs and opinions.
In this course we will be concerned with texts mostly in political and social theory from 18 th century to present: canonical authors such as Georg Simmel, Karl Polanyi, John Dewey as well as contemporary theorists including Wendy Brown, Byung-Chul Han, and Maurizio Lazzarato. Our purpose is the interrogation of those along three dimensions: money as constitutive of the modern self; the relationship among property, market, and politics; and finally the economic crisis and its positive and negative effects on democratic politics.
Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about mutual disrespect and civic enmity among democ... more Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about mutual disrespect and civic enmity among democratic citizens. Ordinary people often find themselves in a particularly adversarial condition in which they shamelessly disregard their opponents and hold them in contempt, and vice versa. Each tends to assert their superiority while appearing to be impudent to one another. Instead of simply calling for mutual respect—deliberative or agonistic—this article aims to understand why people are prone to treating their opponents with disrespect in such an impassioned situation and how to temper the pleasing sense of superiority while redirecting its very motivational power toward better ends. Drawing primarily from Aristotle's Rhetoric, my account of magnanimity shows that the magnanimous can better manage to interact with their opponents, retaining their sense of superiority necessary for active political participation while at once preventing themselves from the downward spiral of the politics of impudence.
에밀 뒤르케임은 대표적인 근대 사회과학의 아버지이자 가장 영향력 있는 사회이론가임에도, 그간 정치사상 학계에서는 그에 대한 연구가 그리 많지 않았던 것이 사실이다. 그러나 이... more 에밀 뒤르케임은 대표적인 근대 사회과학의 아버지이자 가장 영향력 있는 사회이론가임에도, 그간 정치사상 학계에서는 그에 대한 연구가 그리 많지 않았던 것이 사실이다. 그러나 이 글은 특별히 『직업윤리와 시민도덕』에서의 민주주의에 대한 논의를 중점적으로 분석하며, 뒤르케임을 정치사상가로서 조명하고자 한다. 그러기 위해서 이 글은 먼저 스펜서와 칸트, 그리고 프래그머티즘에 대한 뒤르케임의 비판을 살펴봄으로써 뒤르케임 식의 사회구성적 관점의 개인주의를 고찰한 뒤, 민주주의에 대한 뒤르케임의 비정통적인 해석에 주목한다. ‘인민들의 직접 지배’라는 현혹적인 이상을 거부하는 뒤르케임은, 통치의식의 확대, 간접성, 그리고 소통을 중심으로 근대 대의 민주주의의 특징을 설명한다. 마지막으로 직업집단 등의 이차 집단의 활성화를 통해 사회적 연대 형성을 역설하는 뒤르케임의 주장을 함께 검토하면서, 뒤르케임의 민주주의론이 가지는 의의를 알아본다.
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It is widely believed that the free market reflects a natural order in economic realm. Yet the free market is above all a political construction invented in the modern age to answer a number of political and social problems at stake. Originally optimistic, its foundations were challenged in the 19 th century by reactionary pessimism and radical criticism. Neoliberalism took shape in the latter half of the 20 th century, and the collapse of soviet communism seemed to confirm what neo-liberals had long proclaimed: the supremacy of market economies and the universal denominator of money value. That brief period is now behind us and we confront a new pluralism of beliefs and opinions.
In this course we will be concerned with texts mostly in political and social theory from 18 th century to present: canonical authors such as Georg Simmel, Karl Polanyi, John Dewey as well as contemporary theorists including Wendy Brown, Byung-Chul Han, and Maurizio Lazzarato. Our purpose is the interrogation of those along three dimensions: money as constitutive of the modern self; the relationship among property, market, and politics; and finally the economic crisis and its positive and negative effects on democratic politics.
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It is widely believed that the free market reflects a natural order in economic realm. Yet the free market is above all a political construction invented in the modern age to answer a number of political and social problems at stake. Originally optimistic, its foundations were challenged in the 19 th century by reactionary pessimism and radical criticism. Neoliberalism took shape in the latter half of the 20 th century, and the collapse of soviet communism seemed to confirm what neo-liberals had long proclaimed: the supremacy of market economies and the universal denominator of money value. That brief period is now behind us and we confront a new pluralism of beliefs and opinions.
In this course we will be concerned with texts mostly in political and social theory from 18 th century to present: canonical authors such as Georg Simmel, Karl Polanyi, John Dewey as well as contemporary theorists including Wendy Brown, Byung-Chul Han, and Maurizio Lazzarato. Our purpose is the interrogation of those along three dimensions: money as constitutive of the modern self; the relationship among property, market, and politics; and finally the economic crisis and its positive and negative effects on democratic politics.