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Please join us for the virtual launch of Adorno and the Ban on Images – a new monograph by Dr Sebastian Truskolaski, exploring the recurrence of the Old Testament interdiction against image-making in Adorno’s writings, which Bloomsbury Academic recently published. The author will be in conversation with Dr Cat Moir (Germanic Studies, Sydney).
The launch will take place as part of King’s Comparative Literature research seminar series via MS Teams on Wednesday, 3 March 2021, at 4.30 pm GMT. The event is free, open to all and can be accessed here (alternatively copy the following link into your browser: https://tinyurl.com/1u30bmtp.) There is no need to pre-register.
Discount codes to purchase the book at a reduced cost (-35%) will be available on the day. In case of interest, the book can be purchased here.
Speakers
Dr Cat Moir is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney. She works on 19th and 20th century European intellectual history, especially the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and related figures and the tradition's intellectual roots in Marxism and German idealism. Her first book, Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, was published in Brill's Historical Materialism book series in 2020. She is currently working on two books, one on the reception of biology on the German left from 1830-1933, and an introduction to Philosophy in Modern German History for Bloomsbury's Modern German History series.
Dr Sebastian Truskolaski is Lecturer in German & Comparative Literature at King’s College London. His research interests include modern European philosophy from Kant to Derrida. His first book, Adorno and the Ban on Images, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. With Paula Schwebel, he translated Adorno’s correspondence with Gershom Scholem (Polity, 2021). With Esther Leslie and Sam Dolbear he edited and translated The Storyteller, a collection of Walter Benjamin’s experimental prose fiction (Verso, 2016). With Jan Sieber, he guest-edited a special volume of the journal Anthropology & Materialism on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin (2017). He is presently developing a new project on the political reception of Friedrich Hölderlin during the ‘short’ 20th century.