THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
AESTHETICS AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY
The project examines works of art and modes of aesthetic reflection as vehicles for critique of political theology while drawing connections between European political-theological traditions, the critical work of the Frankfurt School, twentieth-century French and Italian thinkers, and Latin American aesthetic practices and political upheavals.
A result of the collaboration led by Peter Fenves (Northwestern) and Eduardo Sabrovsky (Universidad Diego Portales) is the translation to English of Eduardo Sabrovsky’s book De Lo Extraordinario Nominalismo Y Modernidad by Javier Burdman, appearing in English as Modernity as Exception and Miracle. The translation includes an introduction by Peter Fenves, “From the Transcendental, through the Extraordinary, to ‘Perpetual Peace’."
The project led to the development of bilingual graduate and undergraduate syllabi on the subjects, which were offered as courses as part of Northwestern's Critical Theory Certificate Program. While visiting Northwestern, the Mellon fellow Rodrigo Farías Rivas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) assisted with the research for these course development.
The project's collaborators worked closely with the projects Circulating Anarchisms and Marxisms in the Andes at Northwestern and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, and Technologies of Critique, led by Paul North at Yale and Willy Thayer at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Chile.
Complementary workshops, lectures, seminars, and roundtables are organized and offered in conjunction with:
Professor of German, Comparative Literary Studies, Jewish Studies, and Critical Theory at Northwestern.
Professor at the Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. His research and teaching focus on political theology and Chilean politics.
as the Mellon Fellow, Rivas assisted Professor Fenves in the development of project syllabi, participated in seminars, worked on his dissertation prospectus, and provided pre-publication assistance to Critical Times.
THE translatOR OF sabrovsky's De lo extraordinario. at the time of the project, Javier WAS A Postdoctoral Fellow at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. pRIOR, He completed his PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University.