Lyceum

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Espen Hammer (Temple University) for a Spring Lyceum, "Thinking of Being versus Dialectical Negativism: Adorno's Critique of Heidegger."

Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He has previously held professorships at the University of Oslo (Norway) and University of Essex (UK), and visiting professorships at the New School for Social Research and University of Pennsylvania. He is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Frankfurt. His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics.

His publications include, ADORNO'S MODERNISM: ART, EXPERIENCE, AND CATASTROPHE (Cambridge University Press, 2015), PHILOSOPHY AND TEMPORALITY FROM KANT TO CRITICAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 2011), ADORNO AND THE POLITICAL (Routledge, 2006), and STANLEY CAVELL: SKEPTICISM, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE ORDINARY (Polity Press, 2002).

He is editor of THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO ADORNO co-edited with Peter E. Gordon and Max Pensky (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming), KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES (Oxford University Press, 2018), and THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL co-edited with Axel Honneth and Peter E. Gordon (Routledge, forthcoming).​

Professor Hammer's presentation will be this coming Friday, April 6 at 5:00 pm in COE rm. 164. A question and answer period and informal reception will follow.