2013-10-26
Judith Butler. Benjamin and Kafka. 2011
source: egsvideo 2012年02月23日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about Walter Benjamin's notion of the gesture in Franz Kafka's parables. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses Benjamin's background, Kafka's elliptical literary style, the relationship between image and gesture, the possibility of completed action, theology and the Event of language in relationship to Jacques Derrida, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Weber and Karl Marx focusing on messianic time, commodity fetishism, Christianity, the antichrist, the structure of time and space, the Frankfurt School, Kabbalah, the trace, the enigmatic remainder and interruption. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler.
Judith Butler. Benjamin and The Philosophy of History. 2011
source: egsvideo 2012年02月11日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about Walter Benjamin's Theses On The Philosophy of History. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses historical materialism crossed with the messianic, crystallization as the imagistic form of the past, homogenous time, the loss of remembrance and the singularity of catastrophe in relationship to Franz Kafka, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Michel Foucault focusing on memory, progress, empty time, the relation of the past and present, happening versus action and dialectics. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler.
Avital Ronell. Walter Benjamin the sequel. 2013
source: egsvideo 2013年10月13日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, talking about the Walter Benjamin, philosophy, doctorate, and failure. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of transparency, translation, melancholia, sequel, in relationship to sovereignty, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Socrates, Nietzsche, Lyotard, Marx, focusing on task, struggle, and mission. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Year Avital Ronell.
Judith Butler. One time traverses another, Benjamin's Theologico-Politic...
source: egsvideo 2013年09月12日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about the imminence, transience, messianic, and rhythm. In the lecture Judith Butler discusses the concepts of happiness, downfall, eternal, nature, in relationship to Walter Benjamin, worldliness, sacred, recurrence, loss, focusing on Kafka, and Theologico-Political Fragment. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Year Judith Butler.
Judith Butler, Ph.D., Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School EGS, attended Bennington College and then Yale University, where she received her B.A., and her Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984. Her first training in philosophy took place at the synagogue in her hometown of Cleveland. She taught at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins universities before becoming Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2012 she will join Columbia University's English and Comparative Literature departments.
Judith Butler is the author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia University Press, 1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford University Press, 1997), Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (Verso Press, 2004), Giving an Account of Oneself (Fordham University Press, 2005), Frames of War (Verso, 2009) and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011).
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