Prerequisites: upper- division standing or consent of instructor
Description: An examination of the ideas central to the tradition of Western Marxism: ideology, critique, reification, instrumental reason, the domination of nature, and communicative action. Theorists discussed typically include Hegel, Marx, Lukacs, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Habermas.
Credit: Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 153 or PHIL 253.