The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man
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The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
Speaker: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Chair: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Birkbeck, University of London
In recent years, some theorists have effectively disavowed both 'the human' and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, post humanists have called for us to reconsider the superiority and centrality of humankind and the human, and question how Man can presume to change the world by revolutionary action, particularly when such hopes and dreams seem to have been swept into the dustbin of history. Professor Cornell seeks to provoke us to reaffirm agency and the struggle against colonialism and capitalism through a series of creolised readings: Foucault with Ali Shari'ati, Lacan with Fanon, and Spinoza with Sylvia Winter. Can 'political spirituality' have a place in the current debates between humanism and post-humanism?
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