Department of Comparative Thought and Literature

Ben Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford “How updating Frankfurt School political economy changes the way we think about a critical theory of culture in the 21st-century” The lecture shows the transformed potential of the interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School when the framework of economic thinking […]

Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne "How Fiction Can Be Made True" Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers' fictional […]

This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]

This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]

Christiane Voss, CTL Associate and Professor of Audiovisual Media/Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar