In the late 20th and into the early 21st century mainstream political philosophy, and much of elite opinion in the Anglophone world, was dominated by presumptions central to Rawslian liberalism: that democracy and equality in opportunity are undoubted social goods. That era has now ended (or so it seems). In this course, we will begin to explore what comes next both philosophically, and in our social and political life. We will attend to truth, lies, myths, and bullshit, as these phenomena are currently expressed in our lives, and as they go to shape who we are and how we live together. We will read widely, critically, and carefully across a philosophical tradition-from Plato & Nietzsche to the Frankfurt School, and onwards to the thinkers animating the new technocratic authoritarianism.
- 선생님: Riley Evan