Babak Ahmadi's Lecture: Critical Thought

My friends had asked me to focus the discussion on critical theory, and I had noticed that in the initial outline they told me about, they wanted the lecture to be about the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, but I preferred to open up and broaden the discussion a bit. By introducing the term 'thought,' I wanted to go beyond the limits of critical theory or even those theories that are discussed about critical theories in philosophy, to take up the very word 'thought' and with its help take a step that is perhaps historically further back and in fact more expansive, so that through it we can better understand what critical theory is, and specifically the critical theory of the great figures of the Frankfurt School.

The present file is Babak Ahmadi's lecture titled Critical Thought, delivered at the first session of the Philosophy and Literature series at the Faculty of Literature, University of Tehran, on April 15, 2008.

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