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Online Seminar Series: "Dialectic of Enlightenment" at 80 - New Readings

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CICSI and the Critical Theory Colloquium at the University of Essex invite you to an online seminar series: "Dialectic of Enlightenment" at 80 - New Readings.

Image: Gaitis Yannis, Siren - Odysseus. Courtesy of National Gallery, Atthens.


2024 sees the 80th anniversary of the publication of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. Written in the darkest years of the Second World War, this book remains the object of persistent public interest and scholarly debate. Its substantive claims are presented in a hyperbolic, drastic, apparently self-contradictory style that lends itself in equal measure to instant quotation as to misinterpretation.

This seminar series will revisit this enigmatic and challenging work, seeking a reappraisal that takes its heterodox textual style into serious philosophical consideration and connects it to wider debates about Western modernity’s place in history, about gender and feminism, and about our relation to, and the domination of, nature.


All seminars will be online and take place at 4-6pm (GMT) on Fridays:


13 Dec 2024

Lydia Goehr (Columbia University)

Henry Pickford (Duke University)

17 Jan 2025

Surti Singh (Villanova University)

Nathan DuFord (Smith College)


21 Feb 2025

Arvi Särkelä (ETH Zurich)

Plamen Andreev (University of Essex)


21 Mar 2025

Matteo Falomi (University of Essex/Sapienza University of Rome)

William Ross (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)


Registration will open in October 2024.



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