The Nonconformist Intellectual: On the Development of Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School. A Workshop with Alex Demirovic
30th Apr 2020 10:00am-4:00pm
Please note that this event has been postponed until October 2020. More details will be provided soon.
Sign up: email
louis.hartnoll@kingston.ac.uk
Venue: Centre for Research in Modern
European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon
Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
Just over twenty years since its publication,
Alex Demirovic’s Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle remains one of
the most important and challenging interpretations of so-called Frankfurt
School critical theory. Closely attending to Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s class
and seminar protocols, the book foregrounded questions of theoretical praxis,
pedagogy and institutional practice in order to produce a materialist rereading
of the history and philosophy of the Institute for Social Research’s. Der
nonkonformistische Intellektuelle offered the opportunity to reconsider how
debates on Marx and Marxism were central to the Institute’s post-War project,
arguing that the negation of conformist intellectual tendencies was one of its
most foundational and defining characteristics. Led by Demirovic
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), Svenja Bromburg
(Goldsmiths) and Louis Hartnoll (CRMEP), this workshop aims to introduce the
book and its central theses to an Anglophone audience.
This workshop is closed to the public. All
Techne students, associates and alumni, students can register by emailing louis.hartnoll@kingston.ac.uk.
Reading materials, including an excerpt of Der nonkonformistische
Intellekuelle translated especially for this workshop, will be made
available in advance.
Alex Demirovic is Professor of Critical
Social Theory at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a Senior Fellow at the
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin. He has recently taught seminars at the
University of Basel on Adorno’s sociological writings and Leuphana University
Lüneburg on dialectics. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Handbuch
Kritische Theorie (Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019) and Emanzipation: Zu
Geschichte und Aktualität eines politischen Begriffs (Münster:
Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2019). He is currently completing papers on the
relevance of the concept of ideology and on the relation between class and
identity.
