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The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

Adorno and Critical Theory

October 17, 2024
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
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The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

Adorno and Critical Theory

October 17, 2024
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions
Alexandra Colligs
Speaker
Alexandra Colligs
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kassel; Visiting Scholar (Fall 2024), Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
Niklas Lämmel
Speaker
Niklas Lämmel
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kassel
Isolda Mac Liam
Speaker
Isolda Mac Liam
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Sussex; Visiting Researcher, University of Toronto
Sebastian Tränkle
Speaker
Sebastian Tränkle
Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin; Visiting Scholar (Fall 2024), Department of Philosophy, Columbia University

Chair

Peter E. Gordon
Peter E. Gordon
Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

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October 17, 2024
1:00pm - 6:00pm
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Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall Directions

Join the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History for an afternoon of presentations and discussion on Theodor W. Adorno and critical theory.

Program

1:00pm Welcome Remarks by Peter E. Gordon

1:10pm – 2:05pm Presentation by Alexandra Colligs on Critical Theory and the Redemptive Critique of Reason

2:10pm – 3:05pm Presentation by Niklas Lämmel on Unleashed Thinking, Alienated Non-Thinking: Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophical Reflections on Antisemitism

3:05pm – 3:25pm Coffee Break

3:30pm – 4:25pm Presentation by Sebastian Tränkle on Aesthetic Self-Formation. Towards a Materialist Theory of Decadence

4:30pm – 5:25pm Presentation by Isolda Mac Liam on Possibility Gets a Slap in the Face: Removing the ‘Stepchild Among the Categories’ from the Custody of Hegel with Adorno and Bloch

5:35pm – 5:55pm Final comments from speakers

5:55pm – 6:00pm Concluding Remarks by Peter E. Gordon

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