22 Wednesday Apr 2015
James Schmidt (Boston University) has two wonderful posts on the history of this manuscript, and his remarkable discovery of a missing English translation by Adorno himself. More here and here, and check out his blog.
UPDATE (4/23): Ulrich Blomann (Universität Koblenz-Landau) has written informing me of a post of his that may also be of interest to readers on this topic.
14 Tuesday Apr 2015
Thomas Ebke (Pötsdam) has written to us asking us to post the following call for papers (which is in German) for a conference in February of 2016 at the University of Pötsdam on the relationship between philosophical anthropology and the Frankfurt School. This is what Dr. Ebke writes:
As you may know, the dialogue between these two schools of thought was characterized, during the lives of the major protagonists, by mutual skepticism and a series of demarcations. This is all the more astonishing not only because Horkheimer and Adorno, for instance, had good professional relations with Helmuth Plessner who used to be implicated in sociological research projects monitored by the Insitut für Sozialforschung in the 1950s, but also because the problem of anthropological thought and a philosophy of human nature seems on closer inspection to be rather equivocal, especially in the case of Adorno.
23 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in Call for Papers, Theodor W. Adorno
Jay Bernstein (New School) has alerted us about the following CFP:
Thematic Issue of Discipline Filosofiche XXVI, 2, 2016:
Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectical Thinking and Enigma of Truth
edited by Giovanni Matteucci and Stefano Marino
Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectical Thinking and Enigma of Truth
For a long time forgotten, in the last few years, dialectical thinking has been paid again great attention. In recent times dialectics has been resumed by and applied to philosophical debates in the Anglo-American scene, as the influential examples of John McDowell and Robert Brandom clearly show. Continue reading
23 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in Publications, Theodor W. Adorno, Uncategorized
Philip Hogh (Institut für Philosophie der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) has written us letting us know that his new book, Kommunikation und Ausdruck: Sprachphilosophie nach Adorno (Velbrück, 2015) is now out. Congratulations, Philip.
You can read more about the book here, and on Professor Hogh’s academia page.
08 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in Adorno in Context, Theodor W. Adorno
In a recent publication, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York took up the question: ‘Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?’ The report, which attracted the interest of several mainstream news organizations, noted that, at the end of 2013, aggregate student debt in the United States exceeded $1 trillion, and more than 11% of student loan balances are either delinquent or in default. These unfortunate facts, however, do not vitiate the welcome finding that the college degree has maintained a steady ROI of 15%, which, the authors note, ‘easily surpasses the threshold for a sound investment’. Granted, this 15% has held steady only because the wages of people without college degrees have been falling faster than the wages of college graduates. But these unfortunate social facts are irrelevant to the concept of a sound investment in any case. The authors do go on to caution, however, that ‘while the benefits of college still outweigh the costs on average, not all college degrees are an equally good investment’. Continue reading
03 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Adorno in Context, General, Theodor W. Adorno
The Association for Adorno Studies would like to introduce a new series of blog posts, called “Adorno in Context,” wherein Adorno scholars write more casually, through a lens inspired and informed by Adorno’s thinking, on elements of the modern world. Upcoming, we will have an initial series of posts by Roger Foster (Burrough Manhattan Community College, CUNY) and later, others by Surti Singh (American University in Cairo) and Gordon Finlayson (University of Sussex). We hope you’ll find them interesting, and please do not hesitate to comment.
01 Tuesday Apr 2014
Posted in Conference, Conference Summary, Theodor W. Adorno
The 3rd annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies was held March 7th and 8th, 2014 at University College Dublin in Ireland. The meeting was convened at the beautiful Newman House, and was officially opened with remarks by host Brian O’Connor, Martin Shuster, and Kathy Kiloh. Continue reading
21 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Conference, Theodor W. Adorno
Here is a PDF for download.
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Publications, Theodor W. Adorno
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Brian O'Connor, Espen Hammer, Fabian Freyenhagen, Gordon Finlayson, Practical Philosophy, Publications, Theodor W. Adorno
Two recent books on Adorno may be of interest to our readers. Continue reading
18 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted in Conference, Theodor W. Adorno
The 3rd annual meeting of the Association will be held March 7 and 8, 2014 in Dublin, Ireland. It will be hosted by Brian O’Connor and University College Dublin.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Brian O’Connor, Martin Shuster, or Kathy Kiloh.