Critical Theory Goes Global: Transfers, (Mis-)Understandings and Perceptions since 1960 Workshop 12.4.-13.4.2018 HU Berlin (original) (raw)

Universidade de São Paulo – HU Berlin. Joint research project In order to elaborate the possibilities of a reformulated universalist critical theory of society, and to reflect on both its inadequacies and indispensability, is seems promising to focus on the transfer, adaptation and modification of ideas in different social and historical contexts. The tensions that exist between universalist concepts and methodologies, on the one hand, and the development of social and cultural theory in different geographical and historical contexts, on the other, is paradigmatically exemplified in the international reception of the Frankfurt School. Its Critical Theory -- to put it briefly -- is characterized by the attempt not only to maintain the idea of universal emancipation regardless of ethnic, confessional etc. specificities, but also to take seriously the historically specific social conditions that have shaped politics, culture and psychological character structures in particular contexts. More: https://crossingborders.hu-berlin.de/de/projekte