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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

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
October 17, 2024
1:00pm - 6:00pm
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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