The Minerva School

The Minerva School PhD in Critical Thinking combines the most powerful theoretical insights of six key disciplines: political economy, history, structural anthropology, verstehende sociology, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of communication. Without a keen awareness of, and familiarity with, the insights of ALL these disciplines, it is essentially impossible to begin to understand even the most elementary aspects of a “globalized” world – let alone the kinds of complexity thrown in by the current financial and economic crisis. We believe the most powerful way to help people make sense of this world is through a profound commitment to a fundamental educational approach that takes the best insights of all the relevant disciplines and integrates them into a coherent and meaningful – yet simultaneously open-ended - whole.