{"id":17,"date":"2018-08-08T19:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:37:39","slug":"6-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/6-13\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/13 | Praxis 13\/13 in Frankfurt &#8211; December 19, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NB: The first 6:24 minutes of the seminar video has feedback that we are working to eliminate. Apologies for the inconvenience. <\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aTOj2LNqWcc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Martin Saar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-frankfurt.de\/44534817\/Saar_Martin\">Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main<\/a>, and Bernard E. Harcourt, <a href=\"https:\/\/cgt.columbia.edu\/about\/people\/committee-faculty\/bernard-e-harcourt\/\">Columbia University<\/a>,<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/platypus1917.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/readings\/adorno_marginaliatheorypraxis.pdf\">&#8220;Marginalia to Theory and Praxis&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Theodor W. Adorno<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beacon.org\/One-Dimensional-Man-P1328.aspx\"><em>One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(part III) by Herbert Marcuse,\u00a0and<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Down-Earth-Politics-Climatic-Regime\/dp\/1509530576\"><em>Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime<\/em><\/a> by Bruno Latour<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/6-13\/6-13-block-photo\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4339\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/6.13-block-photo-300x99.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/6.13-block-photo-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/6.13-block-photo.png 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The student revolts of the late 1960s and 1970s brought to a head the tension within the Frankfurt School over the relationship between theory and practice. Two starkly opposed positions emerged, represented on the one hand by Herbert Marcuse and on the other by Theodor Adorno.<\/p>\n<p>The students and Marcuse advocated for the \u201cunity\u201d of theory and practice. \u201cThe petrification of Marxian theory violates the very principle which the New Left proclaims,\u201d Marcuse wrote in his <em>Counterrevolution and Revolt<\/em> in 1972: \u201cthe <em>unity of theory and practice<\/em>.\u201d (34) As Marcuse explained, \u201cA theory which has not caught up with the practice of capitalism cannot possibly guide the practice aiming at the abolition of capitalism.\u201d (277)<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, confronted with student protest, Adorno seemed to retreat to theory, debunking the calls for praxis. \u201cWhenever I have directly intervened in a narrow sense and with a visible practical influence, it happened only through theory,\u201d Adorno emphasized in his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2&amp;id=f4050df265&amp;e=92fc55326a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2%26id%3Df4050df265%26e%3D92fc55326a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1545257425673000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAz7cMZWg9linExIefqhxDC-OPuA\">Marginalia to Theory and Praxis<\/a>\u201d in 1968-69. (277)<\/p>\n<p>Join us at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt this Wednesday, Dec. 19th, at 6pm Frankfurt time\/12 noon New York time, for a discussion that will begin with Adorno and Marcuse, but then turn to Bruno Latour&#8217;s new book, <em>Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime<\/em> (Polity 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Read the introduction to the Adorno-Marcuse debate <a href=\"https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2&amp;id=56ed82cfc8&amp;e=92fc55326a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2%26id%3D56ed82cfc8%26e%3D92fc55326a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1545257425673000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFONBgZP9pKjPGkHFAl07mC_DoJ5A\">here<\/a>, the introduction to Latour&#8217;s new book <a href=\"https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2&amp;id=f1875d4789&amp;e=92fc55326a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2%26id%3Df1875d4789%26e%3D92fc55326a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1545257425673000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGgOz_BR0bi1OSnGdsoqszn71I6uQ\">here<\/a>, and some marginalia on Marcuse and the Counterrevolution <a href=\"https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2&amp;id=a1b2035cc3&amp;e=92fc55326a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/columbia.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D3c6da9fa1776ab40fdd0c0fc2%26id%3Da1b2035cc3%26e%3D92fc55326a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1545257425673000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYviTxjLsRJUNiUg5LP5bZ55maWQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Praxis 6\/13!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/6-13\/screen-shot-2018-12-20-at-12-15-57-am\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-12.15.57-AM-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-12.15.57-AM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-12.15.57-AM-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-12.15.57-AM-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-12.15.57-AM.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NB: The first 6:24 minutes of the seminar video has feedback that we are working to eliminate. Apologies for the inconvenience. Martin Saar, Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main, and Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University, read and discuss &#8220;Marginalia to Theory and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/6-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}