Virtual Special Issue: Agnes Heller in Thesis Eleven
This issue of Thesis Eleven presents Agnes Heller’s essays. It is the first in a series of virtual special issues focusing on authors who have made significant contributions to Thesis Eleven.
Issue 125, December 2014
Ágnes Heller: A Philosophical Suite “There is no rigorous philosophy which does not depend on history of philosophy, and which does not acknowledge this dependence; there is no cogent research on history of philosophy which does not take also a philosophical position. This is the credo informing the contributions to this Thesis Eleven special…
Issue 124, October 2014
On Luc Boltanski: Contradictions and Critiques “Boltanski is described as challenging formulaic approaches in sociology and as developing instead novel theoretical insights and an innovative pragmatist methodology. It is suggested that these innovations are complemented by Boltanski’s substantial investigations into empirical developments. Links are drawn between the themes of Boltanski’s work, especially on the…
Ivan Vladislavić – Seeing South Africa @ Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Wednesday 22 October 2014 12 pm Visual Arts Centre, View Street, Bendigo South African writer Ivan Vladislavić has worked often with artists and especially with photographers. He will discuss the value of working in response – or resistance – to visual images. Vladislavić’s works include The Restless Supermarket (2001); Double Negative (2010), Portrait with Keys…
Ivan Vladislavić – Writing South Africa In Conversation with Peter Beilharz @ University of Tasmania
Monday 27th October 2014 12 – 1pm HUM477a Level 4 Humanities Building, Sandy Bay Campus South Africa is a fascinating modernity – images of idyllic landscape matched with those of cities and race relations that remain challenging, even twenty years after apartheid. Johannesburg has the reputation of being a tough, if not impossible city. Certainly…
Video: Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture 2014 Keith Tester on remembering Hiroshima
What is remembered when the bombing of Hiroshima is remembered? Keith Tester, University of Hull introduced by Peter Beilharz @ La Trobe University According to Gunther Anders, the bombing of Hiroshima signified the dawning of the age of the Inverted Utopia – utopians, he said imagine what they cannot achieve, but now we are…
Keith Tester in conversation with Peter Beilharz
Tuesday 19 August 2014, 4 – 6 pm La Trobe University, Martin Building 362A Open to the Public (No RSVP required) Keith Tester and Peter Beilharz are among the leading interpreters of the work of Zygmunt Bauman. They began writing about this work when there was really no Bauman literature at all. That situation has…
Thesis Eleven Centre Master Class: A Life in Sociology – Keith Tester
Wednesday 20 August 2014 2.30 – 5.00 pm Donald Whitehead Building Room 222, La Trobe University Pre-reading available on request (email thesis11@latrobe.edu.au) Max Weber posed the central question: what should we do and how should we live? But from a strictly sociological point of view the question needs to be modified to: what do we…
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