Lecture
German Intellectual Traditions: Jürgen Habermas
Lecture 17 with Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt
Lecture 17: Jürgen Habermas (1929), Frankfurt School
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Session I: 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory. The Frankfurt School and Jürgen Habermas
“The critical theory of society … has for its object men as producers of their own historical way of life in its totality”
Max Horkheimer, Traditional and Critical Theory (1937)
Tea break: 3.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Session II: 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Discourse Ethics and Post-Metaphysical Thinking. The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas”
"The motivating thought is the reconciliation with a crumbling modernity, hence the imagination of ... Finding forms of coexistence, generating a real autonomy and dependency which at peace with each other”
Jürgen Habermas, The New Complexity (1996)
Session III: 5.00 pm – 5.30 pm
A Conversation with Prof. Schmidt on Habermas in the context of German intellectual traditions
All sessions followed by audience interaction.
Please join us for refreshments after the lecture.
Participating colleges:
- HVPS´s Ramaniranjan Jhunjhunwala College
- SPM’s Ramnarain Ruia College
- S.K. Somaiya College for Arts, Science and Commerce
- SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce
- Sophia College
- St Andrews Center for Performing Arts and Philosophy, Bandra
- VPM´s K. G. Joshi College of Arts & N. G. Bedekar College of Commerce
- Wilson College
- St. Xavier’s College
Registration free of cost. Entry by registration: djnishant05@gmail.com
Details
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Language: english
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Part of series German Intellectual Traditions: from Kant to Habermas