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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

The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

Adorno and Critical Theory


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

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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