Michael Funken ha editat un llibre sobre Habermas, que sembla que prepara ja la celebració del 80è aniversari del filòsof alemany. El títol és Über Habermas. Gespräche mit Zeitgenossen [Sobre Habermas. Converses amb els contemporanis] i arreplega articles de Ralf Dahrendorf, Joschka Fischer, Alexander Kluge, Gerd Langguth, Axel Honneth, Wilhelm K. Essler, Mike Sandbothe, Norbert Bolz, Wolfgang Hube, etc. El llibre està editat per l'editorial WBG de Darmstadt. Té 192 pp. i el seu ISBN és 978-3-534-20791-6.
Suhrkamp anuncia la publicació d'un nou llibre editat per Axel Honneth i Beate Rössler, que té com a títol: Von Person zu Person. Zur Moralität persönlicher Beziehungen [De persona a persona. Sobre la moralitat de les relacions personals]. La data prevista d'aparició és el 17 de novembre. Es troba a la col·lecció "suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft 1756" i tindrà 361 pp. El preu previst és de 13 euros a Alemanya. ISBN 978-3-518-29356-0.
A la John Cabot University de Roma se celebrarà el Segon Simposi Internacional sobre Teoria Crítica, amb el programa següent:Click here for the flyer.
Coordinator:
Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi, John Cabot University
Session Chairs:
Lucia Aiello, Brunella Antomarini, Arianne Conty, Luca De Caprariis, David Miller, Vincent Rocchio,
John Cabot University
Keynote speakers:
Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University Chicago
Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome, Tor Vergata
David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago
Giacomo Marramao, University of Rome, Roma Tre
Martin Matustik, Purdue University
Hugh Miller, Loyola University Chicago
Stefano Petrucciani, University of Rome, La Sapienza
Francesco Saverio Trincia, University of Rome, La Sapienza
PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 21
Aula Magna Regina
8.45 - 9.00
Coffee
9.00 - 9.15
Welcome by the President of John Cabot University
9.15 - 10.00 (Chair: Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi)
David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago “Is There a Human Right to Subsistence? Revisiting Habermas’s Theory of Global Justice in an Age of Globalization”
10.00 - 10.45
Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome, Tor Vergata “The Nugget and the Tailings. On Axel Honneth’s Reinterpretation of Reification”
10.45 - 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45
Giacomo Marramao, University of Rome, Roma Tre “Messianism Without Delay. Benjamin and Critical Theory”
11.45 - 12.30
Brunella Antomarini, John Cabot University “Walter Benjamin and the Political Task of the Translator”
Aula Magna Regina
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi)
Frederik Van Gelder, Institut fuer Sozialforschung J.W. Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt “On ‘non-identity’, ‘contradiction’ and ‘reflection’ in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics”
15.40 - 16.20
Stefan Bird-Pollan, Harvard University “Adorno and Kant on the Question of Practical Reason”
16.20 - 17.00
Deborah Cook, University of Windsor, Canada “Through a Glass Darkly: Adorno’s Inverse Theology”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Lucia Aiello)
Samir Gandesha, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver “Dialectic and Difference: Two Conceptions of Reification”
18.10 - 18.50
Lars Rensmann, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor “Adorno at Ground Zero: Towards a Critical Theory of Globalization”
Room 3
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: David Miller)
Brendan Moran, University of Calgary “Politics of Creative Indifference”
15.40 - 16.20
Frances Daly, Australian National University “Reified Life and the Problem of Culture in Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin”
16.20 - 17.00
Alastair Morgan, University of Nottingham “Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Critical Theory and the Destruction of Experience”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Brunella Antomarini)
Andrea Cortés-Boussac, Sergio Arboleda University, Colombia “Benjamin’s media theory and the world of networking images”
18.10 - 18.50
Andrea Aureli, St. John’s University, Rome “Waiting for the second Coming? The 1970s in Italy as a (non)lieux de mémoire”
Spartacus Room
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Vincent Rocchio)
Timo Jütten, University of Sussex “Honneth’s Theory of Reification and the Challenge of Praxis”
15.40 - 16.20
Nicole Pepperell, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia “Fetish and Reification: On Being, versus Appearing to Be, an “Objective” Social Relation”
16.20 - 17.00
Italo Testa, Università di Parma “Adorno on Second Nature, History and Reification”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Luca De Caprariis)
Vincent Rocchio, John Cabot University “Critical Theory, Media, & Militarism: A Failure of Praxis”
18.10 - 18.50
Simon Susen, Goldsmiths College, University of London “The Transformation of Culture in Modern Society: Towards a Critical Theory of Symbolic Violence”
Thursday, May 22
Aula Magna Regina
8.45 - 9.15
Coffee
9.15 - 10.00 (Chair: Brunella Antomarini)
Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver “Recovering Meaning in One-Dimensional Society”
10.00 - 10.45
Stefano Petrucciani, University of Rome, La Sapienza “Marcuse, Politics and Critical Theory”
10.45 - 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45
Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University Chicago “What is One-Dimensional Philosophy?”
11.45 - 12.30
Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi, John Cabot University “Beyond Domination: Adorno and Political Praxis”
Aula Magna Regina
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi)
Steven Vogel, Denison University, Ohio “What is Alienation from Nature?”
15.40 - 16.20
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts Lowell “Can Nature be Reified? Animals, Environments, and the Frankfurt School”
16.20 - 17.00
Johan Frederik Hartle, University of Rome, Roma Tre “Reification and Living Labour. Reconsidering the Marxist challenge”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Brunella Antomarini)
Brian O’Connor, University College Dublin “Immanent Critique and its Norms”
18.10 - 18.50
Noel Boulting, Noboss “Can an Advocate of Critical Theory Solve the Problem of Rationality in Marx’s Philosophy?”
Room 3
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: David Miller)
Jennifer Holt, Vanderbilt University “Nihilistic Praxis: Benjamin and Adorno on Mutilated Thinking”
15.40 - 16.20
Patrick Ahern, Vanderbilt University “Decayed Bodies, Redeemed Past: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Deformation of Happiness”
16.20 - 17.00
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vanderbilt University “A praxis oriented by the debt to the past: Benjamin’s and Adorno’s critique of teleology”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Luca De Caprariis)
James Sorrell, University of Nebraska Medical Center “Critical theory and narratives of non-identity: engendering emancipation in psychotherapy”
18.10 - 18.50
Radu Neculau, University of Windsor, Canada “Critical Theory and the Challenge of Crowd Psychology”
Spartacus Room
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Vincent Rocchio)
Michael McGettigan, Loyola University Chicago “Philosophy as Psychology of Weltanschauungen: Horkheimer and the Revenge of Positivism”
15.40 - 16.20
Wojciech Malecki, University of Wroclaw, Poland “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Eclipse of Reason… But Were Afraid to Ask Dewey”
16.20 - 17.00
Claudie Hemel, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin “The fate of fear in the Dialektik der Aufklärung”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Arianne Conty)
Gillian Howie, University of Liverpool “The Economy of the Same: identity, exploitation and equivalence”
18.10 - 18.50
Rocio Zambrana, New School for Social Research, New York “Speculative Dialectics as Critique: A Hegelian Alternative to Normative Paradigms of Critique”
