Nicolas Schneider: "Trauma of separation: Gillian Rose on the political history of diremption"
13. Mai
Dienstag, 13. Mai um 15:00 Uhr, St. John’s University Rome Campus
Vortrag bei der 17. Internationalen Konferenz zur Kritischen Theorie in Rom, St. John’s University Rome Campus (12.-14.5.2025).
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The talk draws attention to the figure of separation in Gillian Rose’s Hegelian critique of modern capitalist society. My hypothesis is that a ‘theory of diremption’ underpins Rose’s overall approach and orientates her critique both of Frankfurt School critical theory and of (post-)structuralist thought, as well as explains her turn from the critique of political economy to a critique of political theology in her late work. First, I reconstruct Rose’s notion of diremption from her reading of Hegel; second, I show how she mobilises the theory of diremption against Adorno and Derrida; third, I bring this theory to bear on the discourse on ‘ends’ – of philosophy, of history, and so on. The talk aims to contribute to an understanding of the ‘place of critique’ prepared by Rose. This place is not a static ‘standpoint’ in the sense of the ‘standpoint philosophy’ rejected by Adorno, but closer to what Guy Debord calls lieux de passage, ‘places of passage’ that move in and out of diremption to critique and subvert it.
Nicolas Schneider is a research fellow at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, UK. His research interests include Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, phenomenology, and critical theory. His work has appeared, among others, in Philosophy Today, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.