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Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
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Communication Theory
Social thought, mapping a context
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936)
Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Max Weber (1864-1920)
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
Max Scheler (1874-1928)
Georg Lukacs (1885-1971)
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977)
Karl Mannheim (1893-1947)
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti, Instructors

  • Office hours:
    • McClintock (322 Thompson Hall): Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Thursdays, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Schedule slot with Neemisha Martin @ 212 678 3344 or nmartin@tc.edu)
    • Moretti (603 Lewisohn Hall): By appointment (Schedule time with Teresa Gonzales @ 212 854 1692 or teresa@columbia.edu)

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)

Discussion readings

  • Thorstein Veblen. The Theory of the Leisure Class. (1899) New York: Dover Publications, 1994. Chapters 1-5, 7, and 14, pp. 1-70, 103-116, and 223-44. Electronic Reserve. $3.00.
  • Thorstein Veblen. The Higher Learning in America(1917). New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publications, 1992. Chapters I and VIII. Electronic Reserve. $24.95.

Supplemental resources

  • See especially: Theodor Adorno. "Veblen's Attack on Culture, "Prisms. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. pp. 73-94.
  • John Patrick Diggins. Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.































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