Wednesday, December 3 2025
5:00 PM To 7:00 PM
Critical theorists sometimes raise a question about how human beings could ever intentionally bring about an emancipated society. It seems, they say, that not only our shared institutions but even our very desires and ways of thinking grow out of oppressive social structures. If that is the case, how could we ever figure out what norms will actually guide us to liberation? Marxism gives rise to this puzzle in a very acute form, because of historical materialism. For materialists, even the moral...
Rocky 200, Vassar College
