CFP: 22nd Annual Critical Theory Rountable

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The 22nd Annual Critical Theory Roundtable will take place September 19-21, 2014, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

Professor Axel Honneth, Professor of Social Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and University Professor at Columbia University, will be the keynote speaker for this year’s conference. Continue reading →

CFP: Powerless Longing, The Loss of Utopian Thinking in Late Modernity

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Sebastian Tränkle (Berlin) has written to us asking that we post the following CFP. It is in German, and looks like a fantastic event. The website for the event is located here.

Ohnmächtige Sehnsucht. Zum Verlust utopischen Denkens in der Spätmoderne

Max Horkheimer beschrieb die frühneuzeitliche Utopie »als Ausdruck ohnmächtiger Sehnsucht«, weil in der Epoche ihrer Entstehung die materiellen Mittel zur Realisierung der Gesellschaftsentwürfe nicht zur Verfügung standen. In der spätmodernen Gegenwart hingegen ist es weniger der Mangel an Mitteln als das Schwinden des »Möglichkeitssinns« (Robert Musil), das die Menschen zur Ohnmacht verdammt. Continue reading →

Call for Papers: Music, Marxism, and The Frankfurt School

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This CFP might be of interest to many. The website is found here.

Music, Marxism, and The Frankfurt School

International Conference

School of Music, University College Dublin, 2-4 July 2014

The group of intellectual left-wing German thinkers known as the Frankfurt School, active in Frankfurt from the late-1920s and later in the US and Germany, focused their critical attention on culture, asking how it affected people’s political outlook and activities. Their powerful admixture of philosophy, sociology, and cultural critique played a key role in modernism in the German cultural sphere.Their conception of culture as a repository of new values continues to impact and influence how we in the twenty-first Continue reading →