Cassirer Lectures Archive
Noon Workshop. Please note: In the seminar, Professor Menke will refer to Arnold Gehlen’s ”Urmensch und Spätkultur”, Part I. “Institutionen.” For those who want to read into the chapter, we recommend especially section 1, p. 5-9, and sections 5-11, p. 19-55.
How does freedom begin? How do we become free? The second book of Moses, which its Greek translators called “Exodus”, provides an answer to this question that presents a concept of freedom of abysmal depth and dizzying dialectics.
Professor Sebastian Rödl, Professor of Philosophy, University of Leipzig
I want to consider the idea of the good. The idea I mean is the one that opens up practical thought, thought of what to do and how to act. Knowing what to do is knowing what is good to do; ultimately, it is knowing what to do so as to act well. My theme is the use of “good” in “good to do” and “acting well”. It is the formal object of practical knowledge: what practical knowledge as such knows.
Niklaus Largier
Lecture
Forms of Perception, Figures of Production: Cassirer, Warburg, Auerbach
Friday, November 13, 1-3 PM
Zoom Meeting ID: 948 2005 1599
Seminar
February 20 & 21
Cornelia Zumbusch, Professor of German Literature at the University of Hamburg; Codirector at the Warburg-Haus, Hamburg; Codirector of the Centre of Advanced Studies ›imaginaria of force‹, Hamburg. 2012/13 Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. 2010-2012, Supplementary Professor, University of Konstanz; 2009 venia legendi (Habilitation) in German Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. 2006 scholar’s prize of the Aby Warburg Foundation; 2003 PhD, Freie University Berlin.
