Political Critique for a Post-Political World--A Talk by Professor Kompridis

October 24, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 624 Add to Calendar

Professor Kompridis proposes an idea of critique that departs from the idea of critique as a practice of unmasking. This ivolves a “fusion of horizons,” fusing Arendt’s idea of revolution as a practice of “founding anew and building up” and Gadamer’s idea of interpretation as a practice that establishes the possibility of a relationship with others – the possibility of a relationship of mutual learning, and, sometimes, of mutual transformation.

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Originally trained as a musician, Nikolas Kompridis is a research professor in philosophy and political thought and Director of the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of the Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury, 2014) Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT, 2006), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge, 2006), and over 50 articles on a very broad spectrum of topics in philosophy and political theory.


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Political Science, Mānoa Campus

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Wumaier Yilamu, 956-8357, wumaier@hawaii.edu

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