[Reader-list] Invitation to a talk by Frederic Vandenberghe on 15 February 2016 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a talk





*Beyond Critique:*

*Prolegomena to a reconstructive social theory*

by *Frederic Vandenberghe*





*Aditya Nigam* will chair

Monday, 15 February 2016, 3 pm
                              *RSVP*

CSDS Seminar
Room,
                        Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
             Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 2.30 pm

   email:
jaya at csds.in



Social theories that focus on domination and resistance have become
hegemonic in the contemporary social sciences, both in the West (through
combinations of Frankfurt School, Bourdieu and Foucault) and in the East
(through articulations of Gramsci and Foucault). The talk will explore and
foreground the possibility of reconstruction of violence at the personal,
institutional and systemic levels of society. Based on a theoretical
articulation of critical realism, hermeneutics and the anthropology of the
gift, it will outline how ethics, culture and practices can be interlinked
in a reconstructive social theory.



*Frederic Vandenberghe* is professor of sociology at the State university
of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He did his PhD at the EHESS in Paris in 1994
on theories of reification in German sociology. He works at the
intersection of German social philosophy, Anglo-Saxon social theory and
French sociological theory. He has published books in French, English and
Portuguese which include *What's Critical about Critical Realism? *(2014)
and *A Philosophical History of German Sociology* (2009).



*Aditya Nigam *is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.

-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai