Northwestern Events Calendar

Oct
16
2014

Jay Bernstein: Chicago-Area Consortium in German Philosophy

SHOW DETAILS

When: Thursday, October 16, 2014
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT

Where: University Hall, Hagstrum Room, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Contact: Alejandra Uslenghi  

Group: Chicago-Area Consortium in German Philosophy

Category: Academic

Description:

Alice Kaplan Institute for Humanities
Philosophy Department
and Comparative Modernisms Workshop

present

Prof. Jay Bernstein
University Distinguished Professor, New School for Social Research

J.M. Bernstein is the University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He previously taught at the University of Essex and at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily in the areas of ethics, critical theory, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and German Idealism. He is leading interpreter of Adorno. His books include: The Philosophy of the Novel (Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992);Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York, 2001); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006). He also edited and wrote the introduction for Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (New York, 2003). He was a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Events:

"Suffering - Nature - Reason: Adorno on the Moral Meaning of Modernism"
Thursday October 16th @ 5p
Hagstrum Room - University Hall 201.
organized by Comparative Modernisms Workshop.
Co-sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies Studies and German Department

Graduate Student Workshop
Friday October 17th 11:00 -1:00pm
Philosophy Seminar Room, Crowe 1-140
organized by The After-Life of Phenomenology Workshop
co-sponsored by Critical Theory Cluster

"The Emptiness and Necessity of Secular Conscience (from Arendt to Hegel)"
Friday October 17th @ 3pm
University Hall, Room 318
organized by German Philosophy Consortium

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Oct
17
2014

Jay Bernstein: Chicago-Area Consortium in German Philosophy

SHOW DETAILS

When: Friday, October 17, 2014
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT

Where: University Hall, Room 318, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Contact: Guy Elgat  

Group: Chicago-Area Consortium in German Philosophy

Category: Academic

Description:

Alice Kaplan Institute for Humanities
Philosophy Department
and Comparative Modernisms Workshop

present

Prof. Jay Bernstein
University Distinguished Professor, New School for Social Research

J.M. Bernstein is the University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He previously taught at the University of Essex and at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily in the areas of ethics, critical theory, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and German Idealism. He is leading interpreter of Adorno. His books include: The Philosophy of the Novel (Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992);Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York, 2001); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006). He also edited and wrote the introduction for Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (New York, 2003). He was a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Events:

"Suffering - Nature - Reason: Adorno on the Moral Meaning of Modernism"
Thursday October 16th @ 5p
Hagstrum Room - University Hall 201.
organized by Comparative Modernisms Workshop.
Co-sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies Studies and German Department

Graduate Student Workshop
Friday October 17th 11:00 -1:00pm
Philosophy Seminar Room, Crowe 1-140
organized by The After-Life of Phenomenology Workshop
co-sponsored by Critical Theory Cluster

"The Emptiness and Necessity of Secular Conscience (from Arendt to Hegel)"
Friday October 17th @ 3pm
University Hall, Room 318
organized by German Philosophy Consortium

More Info