„Of Ecocide and Human Rights: Political Morality for the 21st Century”  – Manuscript Workshop with Jay Bernstein (NSSR) 

at Work
24-25 October 2024
Free University Berlin

in cooperation with the Dahlem Junior Host program at Free University Berlin

Topic

The book examines the roots of the climate crisis in the form of life of liberal capitalism and develops a novel understanding of human rights as tools for combatting the ecocide in progress.

– In discussion with Niklas Angebaur, Jacob Blumenfeld, Robin Celikates, Esther Neuhann, Jonas Heller, Bernd Ladwig, Susanne Lettow, Linus Mührel, Tatiana Llaguno Nieves, and more

Registration Necessary (ideally until September 30, limited space): esther.neuhann@fu-berlin.de

The manuscript will be sent to registered participants.

Organized by: Jacob Blumenfeld (Carl von Ossietzky Oldenburg / Center for Social Critique HU Berlin) / Esther Neuhann (FU Berlin/TU Dresden)

Bio

J.M. Bernstein is the University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He previously taught at the University of Essex and at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily in the areas of ethics, critical theory, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and German Idealism. Bernstein’s books include The Philosophy of the Novel (Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York, 2001); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006); and Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (Chicago, 2015). He also edited and wrote the introduction for Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (New York, 2003).

„Of Ecocide and Human Rights: Political Morality for the 21st Century”  – Manuscript Workshop with Jay Bernstein (NSSR)