Critical Theory
For those who understand German, you can now listen to two podcast episodes on my new book and, more generally, on topics I am working on.
With the makers of Narabo, Lukas Kiemele and Roxana Rentsch, I chatted about my career path, philosophy, responsibility and political epistemology.
The agora42 team asked three questions about the new edition of Max Horkheimer’s essay, a new edition of which I have recently published. You can now read my answers on the agora42 blog.
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In May 2021, a new edition of Horkheimer’s seminal essay “Traditional and critical theory” will be published in the Great Papers Philiosophie-series by Reclam, including my detailed afterword. For more information, visit Reclam’s website.
Am 20./21. November findet ein kleiner Workshop zum Thema “Kritische Theorie(n)” mit Martin Saar statt. Organisiert wird er von Sarah Bianchi, Corina Färber, Hannes Kuch, Kristina Lepold und Frieder Vogelmann in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Forschungsverbund “Normative Ordnungen” der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und dem Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS). Leider können wir aufgrund der Pandemie Publikum nur digital zulassen; dafür bedarf es einer Anmeldung vorab.
The Frankfurter Arbeitskreis rounds up its “Corona Glossary” in short talks on YouTube with a livestream on Sunday, 3rd May, at 17:00h (GMT +2). Again, we use this opportunity to ask for your support of the following organizations: Medico International, Project Shelter, Medical Volunteers International, Stand by me Lesvos, No Border Kitchen.
![Critical Theories in the Pandemic: A Glossary -- (no) Finissage [plus podcast!]](/public/post/2020/2020_05_pandemie/featured_finissage.jpg)
The Frankfurter Arbeitskreis presents a “Corona Glossary” in short talks on YouTube. Meant to stimulate discussion, it is also connected with a very practical aim: to raise money for two initiatives which support migrants in their vital needs and political struggles: Project Shelter, a local charity from Frankfurt, and Medico International, an organization which promotes the human right to health in cooperation with many left-wing political forces around the globe.
If you have missed my talk “Radikal emanzipatorisch. Vernunftkritik als kritische Theorie” from the lecture series “100 Jahre Soziologie an der Goethe-Universität”, you can now watch it online in a video.
How does knowledge affect us? What political significance do epistemological questions and insights have? My habilitation project investigates the force of knowledge
How can we govern in such a way that those governed need not fear those governing? What if the usual answer of political philosophy, namely “autonomy,” is not sufficient?
How do we picture the activity of criticising, and how does this influence our theoretical activity of explicating the concept of critique? What kind of knowledge do we produce in criticising? And what is the relation between critique and necessity?
