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The Science of Society in Early Critical Theory
March 22 — Class, Monopolies, and Rackets: “On The Sociology of Class Relations” by Max Horkheimer (presented by Re Tejus)
March 29 — Rackets, Monopolies, and Imperialism: Texts by Horkheimer and Milios and Sotiropoulos (presented by Mac Parker)
April 5 — The Origins of Mechanical Explanation: “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia” by Boris Hessen (presented by Anatarah bin AlKaf)
April 12 — Historical Materialism and Nature: Texts by Karl August Wittfogel (presented by J. E. Morain)
April 26 — The Polymorphous Psyche of Bourgeois Society: “Egoism and Freedom Movements” by Max Horkheimer (presented by Esther Planas Balduz)
May 3 — Revolution and Rhetoric in Modernity: Texts by Max Horkheimer (presented by James Crane)
May 10 — Adorno’s Dialectical Sociology and Marx’s Critique of Political Economy: “Introduction” to The Positivist Dispute by Theodor Adorno (presented by Zach Loeffler)
