Politics of Critique and the Critique of Politics Articles: Habermas on the European crisis: Attempting the impossible Volker M. Heins Abstract: Based on a critical reading of Jürgen Habermas’s journalistic writings on the European Union, the article argues that Europe’s current crisis is also a crisis of its narratives, and hence a crisis of meaning. The…
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…
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…
Part of my journey is that it’s taken a long time to feel sufficiently comfortable enough to do this type of stuff, and invite people to share in it – but also to push the idea that music is a datum, it’s a research source …For example, by playing three or four versions of a…
Hurried Life / Good Life This issue brings together two guest edited sections on the works of Zygmunt Bauman and Daniel Bell. The first, edited by Mark Davis, director of the Bauman Institute in Leeds, tackles the problematic of temporality in the contemporary world. The experience of time itself seems to be melting – from…
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