A Philosophical Dissolution of History: The Myth of Year 1

21. Jun

The DFG Research Training Group "Cultures of Critique“, the Center for Critical Studies (CCS), and the Research Initiative ‘The Disruptive Condition’, Leuphana University Lüneburg would like to invite you to the Lecture:

A Philosophical Dissolution of History: The Myth of Year 1


Susan Buck-Morss (City University of New York)


June 21, 2023, 6 pm, Central Building, C40.256

Leuphana University Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg

Dissolving the history of “origin” stories means unravelling of modernity’s myth about itself. National/religious/cultural traditions are exclusionary histories. Against these conventions of the ownership of slices of historical time, I argue for a communist inheritance of the past.