Ryan Crawford: Critical Theory and Philosophical Form

A guest lecture of the Department of Art Theory

Today seen as an academic paradigm with established concepts and concerns, the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School is perhaps better understood as a wide-ranging experiment in philosophical form. By reconstructing these experiments, this lecture will show how critical theory developed a practice of intellectual production that transformed the concept of philosophy, its organizational structure and mode of presentation to meet the challenges of its time. The result was an experiment in philosophical form whose implications for contemporary social, scientific and artistic production are no less relevant today.

Ryan Crawford has taught at the University of Vienna and Webster Vienna Private University, where he served for many years as Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy and Department Head of the university's Center for Liberal Arts. The co-editor of Adorno and Concept of Genocide and Delimiting Experience: Aesthetics and Philosophy, his recent essays have appeared in Radical Philosophy, Evental Aesthetics and Geschichtskritik Nach >1945<. Aktualität und Stimmenvielfalt (ed. Burkhard Liebsch).

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