Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race and Class Nancy Fraser’s 2022 Benjamin lectures are inspired by a striking claim made by W.E.B. Du Bois…
read morewith Amna Akbar, Silke van Dyk, Manon Garcia and Romin Khan “In order to preserve or even expand the welfare state, migration must be stopped.” Claims like these accompanied the…
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Is there still a need for a comprehensive social theory today that clarifies the interrelation and interaction of the various social spheres? In her influential 1994 essay “Gender as Seriality,”…
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From October 5 to 7, 2021, as part of the Global Forum of the international initiative #democratizingwork we discussed the topics of “democratization”, “decommodification” and “decarbonization” of work in more…
read moreIn this round table event we discussed with Hauke Brunkhorst, Stefan Gosepath, Asad Haider, Sabine Hark, Serene Khader, Stefan Lessenich, and Frederick Neuhouser. Organized by the Humanities and Social Change…
read moreDespite a widespread diagnosis that solidarity is in crisis, appeals to solidarity are ubiquitous today. We encounter them on the level of personal and professional relations but also with regard…
read moreConversations on Socialism #4 A New Socialism for a New Century? with Christine Berry (Trustee of Rethinking Economics), Axel Honneth (Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities at Columbia University…
read moreOn June 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2021, Axel Honneth held the Benjamin Lectures on “The Working Sovereign: A Democratic Theory of the Division of Labor”. One of the greatest shortcomings…
read morewith Lisa Vollmer, Mustafa Dikeç, Christian Volk and Robin Celikates Gentrification and neoliberalization have shaped the cities we live in but also given rise to urban struggles, from uprisings to…
read morewith Gregg Gonsalves, Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates In this roundtable, Gregg Gonsalves discusses with Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates how to fight the denial of truth by right-wing…
read moreNach dem Terroranschlag von Hanau am 19. Februar 2020 haben vor allem die in der Initiative „19. Februar“ organisierten Opferfamilien dafür gekämpft, dass es kein Zurück zu einer vermeintlichen…
read moreÜber Sozialismus reden #3 Mit Sabine Nuss und Hans-Jürgen Urban (Moderation: Christian Schmidt). Im Anschluss an die Podiumsdiskussion können Teilnehmende Fragen stellen. Je größer die Verwerfungen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt, je…
read moreÜber Sozialismus reden #2 Für einen kurzen Augenblick konnte es so scheinen, als habe die Corona-Pandemie endlich das breite gesellschaftliche Bewusstsein dafür geschaffen, wie wichtig Pflege und Sorge für uns…
read more#DemocratizingWork “Working humans are so much more than ‚resources‘. This is one of the central lessons of the current crisis.“ The worldwide political call of several thousand scientists who are taking the corona…
read morewith Manuela Bojadžijev and Muhammad al-Kashef, moderated by Robin Celikates While the coronavirus pandemic in a way affects us all, recent developments have made it abundantly clear that not all…
read morewith Andreas Malm At first sight, the coronavirus pandemic is just another random natural disaster. On a closer look, however, the pandemic unfolds in confrontation with pre-existing social institutions. Andreas Malm’s…
read moreMit Ulrike Herrmann und Alex Demirović Die Corona-Pandemie hält die Welt in Atem. Für wie lange noch und mit welchen gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen ist ungewiss. Einigkeit besteht hingegen bei der Einschätzung,…
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this event is unfortunately cancelled. Nancy Fraser’s Lectures are postponed to 2022. That capitalism is “in crisis” has almost become a truism. The financial crisis…
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Against the background of failed state socialisms and the crisis of socialism in Latin America, the term “socialism” was long frowned upon when it came to discussing current political and…
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Bei der Frankfurter Adorno-Konferenz 2003 konstatierte Axel Honneth eine „dramatische Abkehr“ von Adornos Philosophie und beklagte das Fehlen eines „vitalen, spannenden Forschungsmilieus“. Davon kann heute keine Rede mehr sein. Neue…
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