Lecture 15 with Jatin Wagle & Lecture 16 with Dr. Surendra Munshi
Lecture 15
Theodor W. Adorno (1903 - 1969)
“Adorno, Exile and the Non-Identical”
Jatin Wagle, University of Osnabrück, Germany
“An emancipated society… would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. Politics that are still seriously concerned with such a society ought not, therefore, propound the abstract equality of persons even as an idea. Instead, they should point to the bad equality today, …and conceive the better state as one in which people could be different without fear”.
Adorno, Theodor W. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. 1974
Lecture 16
Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979)
“Marcuse on Advanced Industrial Society”
Dr. Surendra Munshi, Retired Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
“A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. Indeed, what could be more rational than the suppression of individuality in the mechanization of socially necessary but painful performances; the concentration of individual enterprises in more effective, more productive corporations; the regulation of free competition among unequally equipped economic subjects; the curtailment of prerogatives and national sovereignties which impede the international organization of resources. That this technological order also involves a political and intellectual coordination may be a regrettable and yet promising development”.
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
There will be a 30 mins break between the lectures. All sessions followed by audience interaction.
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