A philosophical dissolution of history: the Myth of Year 1 - Susan Buck-Morss (Lecture Series on the Disruptive Condition)
Lecture
21. Jun
6pm. Room C 40.256
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.
Susan Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, where she is a core faculty member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. She is Professor Emeritus in the Government Department of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She is the author of numerous books including Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting (2021), Revolution Today (2019), Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009), The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989) and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (1977).
This event is hosted by the Center for Critical Studies (CCS), the CCS Working Group on the Disruptive Condition, and the Cultures of Critique DFG research training group. The event will take place in English.
For more information, please contact: ccs@leuphana.de
