黑料正能量

The 黑料正能量 Center for Critical Democracy Studies in partnership with听the College International de Philosophie听presents, the听Oliver Feltham鈥檚 philosophy research seminar 鈥淕enealogy and Comparative Ontology of Political Action in European Modernity鈥� in its four-year running.听This semester they welcome Dr Frank Ruda (University of Dundee) who is slated to lead a discussion titled,听鈥淭he Excluded and Grotesque Sovereigns. Luhmann, Foucault, Hegel鈥�

About the discussion:

Niklas Luhmann 鈥� often referred to as the Hegel of sociology 鈥� felt forced to revise his theory after witnessing first hand exclusory practices in the favelas in Brazil. Michel Foucault analyzed strategies of a decaying system to safe themselves and argued that they can implement an idiot in chief, a fool in power, a grotesque sovereign. This lecture will show how both phenomena, still pertinent to the very coordinates of our contemporary situation can be productively elucidated when looking at the world 鈥� not simply rationally, but 鈥� with Hegelian eyes.

About Professor Frank Ruda:

Frank Ruda is a German philosopher and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is a founding editor of the online journal Crisis and Critique. He has published heavily in the area of contemporary critical theory with many articles and interviews on key figures and monographs on Alain Badiou -听For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism听(Northwestern University Press, 2015) - and Hegel 鈥撎�Hegel鈥檚 Rabble: an Investigation into Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy of听Right听(Continuum Books, 2011), and co-written with Rebecca Comay,听The Dash-the Other Side of Absolute听Knowing听(MIT Press, 2018).

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