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The Potentialities for Globality in the Tradition of Critical Theory

In this article, Johan Bolding Rasmussen examines how Critical Theory can engage with global intellectual history. He suggests that by moving beyond Eurocentric perspectives, Critical Theory can address global challenges more effectively. Rasmussen proposes integrating diverse intellectual traditions to enrich critical discourse and enhance its relevance in a global context. According to him, “global intellectual history is the emergence of a promising and strong research field that combines intellectual history with the recent increase in attentiveness towards the global”. Similarly, “recent years have seen a significant number of research monographs” on the Frankfurt School emerge. Inherently universal, the literature does, however, raise crucial questions on its globality.

“The Problem is Not in the Illusions, but in the Aims of the Apparatus of Power” – Interview with Gintautas Mažeikis

Interview with Gintautas Mažeikis by Miglė Bareikytė. I remember when professor Gintautas Mažeikis, during the first week of the semester at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, told his students, including me, that we should read Horkheimer and Adorno’s “Dialectic of Enlightenment”. We were young, the book was poorly translated, perplexity set in.

Shakespeare, History and ‘Cancel Culture’

By Sabine Schülting. In an article published in September 2020, Peter-André Alt, Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and President of the German University Rectors’ Conference (HRK), complains that contemporary culture seems to have lost any interest in history.

‘شكسبير والتاريخ و’ثقافة الإلغاء

زابينه شولتنغ (اللغة الإنكليزية وآدابها، جامعة برلين الحرّة، ألمانيا). في مقال نُشر في أيلول/سبتمبر من عام 2020، اشتكى بيتر أندريه ألت، أستاذ الأدب الألماني في جامعة برلين الحرّة ورئيس مؤتمر رؤساء الجامعات الألمانية (HRK)، من أنّ الثقافة المعاصرة تبدو كأنّها فقدت أيّ اهتمام بالتاريخ. ولاحظَ أنّ الكتب المدرسية تكيّف لغات الماضي الأدبية مع طريقة تعبيرنا الحالية، وأنّ البطلات الكلاسيكيات والأبطال الكلاسيكيين – “ميديا وهاملت، فاوست وكليوباترا” – يُعَصْرَنون في المسرح والسينما على حدّ سواء.

The Sociality of Theory

By Francesco Anselmetti. A Flood in Baʿath Country, the 2003 documentary by Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay, opens with a stark confession on the director’s behalf. His career had begun in the early 1970s with a panegyric to the Baʿathist project of modernisation glorifying the construction of the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates, near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.