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Theodor W. Adorno: ethics and politics of forms of life

December 05 | 09:00

Contact

Estelle Ferrarese
FE  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de

Program

DECEMBER 5, 2018

9h00 Croissants and welcome

Session 1- A political Adorno?
Chair: Peter Dews (Essex)

9h15 Gordon Finlayson (University of Sussex) The Real Contradiction in Adorno’s Politics
10h00 Estelle Ferrarese (UPJV) A life that does live. Reflections on the meaning of life and death in Adorno’s work
10h45 Coffee break

Session 2 - Gendered forms of life, feminist politics.
Chair: Peter Dews (Essex)

11h15 Salima Naït Ahmed (UPJV) La méthode de l’« identification dialectique » de Sohn-Rethel et la genèse du patriarcat dans la Dialektik der Aufklärung
12h00 Dagmar Wilhelm (UWE Bristol) Adorno and the future of feminism
12h45 Lunch

Session 3 - Reason and its Other I.
Chair: Danielle Petherbridge (University College Dublin)
14h00 Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Essex) ‘Objective reason, the human life form, and irrational society: the “linguistic turn” in Horkheimer and Adorno’
14h45 Maria Muhle (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München) Adorno, Caillois, and mimetism
15h30 coffee break

Session 4 - Reason and its Other II.
Chair: Danielle Petherbridge (University College Dublin)
16h00 Aurelia Peyrical (Université Paris-Nanterre) Addendum and personality in Adorno
16h45 Federica Gregoratto (University of Saint Gall) Mimesis and the “warmth of things”: Adornian reflections on (non) damaged love

DECEMBER 2018

Session 5 - Progress, modernity and exile.
Chair: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)
9h00 Philip Hogh (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) Pain and Progress
9h45 Selim Nadi (Sciences Po/Universität Bielefeld) T.W. Adorno and C.L.R. James: a missed encounter?
10h30 Danielle Petherbridge (University College Dublin) After Exile: Reflections on Vulnerable Life
11h15 Coffee break

Session 6 - The capitalist form of life. Chair: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)
11h45 Clotilde Nouët (Université de Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne) The Capitalist Subjugation of Life: Adorno’s reading of Marx
12h30 Julia Christ (UPJV) Entre pensée du fétiche et pensée de l'un. Quelle totalisation traverse la société capitaliste?
13h15 Lunch

Session 7 - Musical forms, ethical forms. Chair: Jean-Claude Dupont (UPJV)
14h30 Peter Dews (University of Essex) Adorno and the Philosophy of Improvisation
15h15 Céline Hervet (UPJV) Formes de vie, attitudes d’écoute et style musicaux. Sur l’idée de « bonne musique » chez Adorno
16h00 Coffee break

Session 8 - Human and non-human forms of life. Chair: Jean-Claude Dupont (UPJV)
16h30 Lucie Wezel (Université de Paris 8) Adorno penseur de l’éthique animale?