Instructor: C. Tsoukalas
This course examines the current European crisis in the context of the perils of globalization, focusing, however, not on the strictly financial sphere but on the social and political implications of an economic demise. The six lessons will address in turn: 1) The fetish of “growth” and the moral demise of the West; 2) the disembeddedness of markets from society; 3) the functional demise of national states and the privatization of public services; 4) the dispossession and waning of the “middle classes”; 5) the incapacitation of democracy and the generalization of corruption; 6) the reconsideration of the relative autonomy of the political.
Please contact the ICLS office for more information, icls@columbia.edu, 212-854-4541.
