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Location: School III in-person and Teams online (for online attendees, headphones should be worn to prevent a feedback loop from occurring) Title: Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care Abstract: For decades, socialist feminists have insisted that an adequate approach to any economy, and especially to capitalism, must involve attention to social reproduction, i.e., to “the activities…

Title: “Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem” Abstract: Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of “categorical inequality.” In this framework, entire social groups enjoy superior power, social esteem, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners, men over women, blacks over whites in the U.S., Brahmins over Dalits in…

Title: Shameless Liberalism: A Vision Abstract: Despite everything, liberalism remains the one true political philosophy. Liberal principles – something about liberty and autonomy, something about equality, perhaps some universalist and rationalist assumptions – are still the right fundamental principles for political philosophy.But this doesn’t mean – nor did you think – that there are no…

Title: Solidarity, Politics, and Intellectual Life Abstract: This lecture will examine what role intellectuals from oppressed groups should play in the struggle for their group’s liberation. It draws on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Richard Wright—canonical figures in the Black Radical tradition—to ask whether such intellectuals should subordinate their interest in art…