Seminar series by Drucilla Cornell and Stephan Seely

  • DATE

    25 July 2016 - 28 July 2016

  • TIME

    17:30 - 20:30

  • VENUE

    Law Auditorium, Room 1-54, Law Building, Hatfield Campus

The Department of Jurisprudence in the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law cordially invites you to a seminar series by Professor Drucilla Cornell from the Department of Political Sciences at Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and Stephen Seely, PhD candidate in Rutgers’ Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

The series will be based on Cornell and Seely's 2016 book, The spirit of revolution: beyond the dead ends of man, published by Polity Press in Cambridge.

 

Date: 25, 27 and 28 July 2016

Time: 17:30–20:30

Venue: Law Auditorium, Room 1-54, Law Building, Hatfield Campus

RSVP to [email protected] by 15 July 2016

Enquiries: Sunet Slabbert at [email protected] or +27 (0)12 420 3756

 

In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to fundamentally reconsider the superiority and centrality of humankind, and question how humans can presume to change the world by revolutionary action, particularly when Marx's dreams seem to have been swept into the dustbin of history.

The provocative book on which this series is based reaffirms what is most basic in feminism – the attack on the universality and sovereignty of humankind – but contends that the only way this can mean anything other than pessimistic rhetoric is to embrace human agency and the struggle against colonialism and capitalism. In a series of creolised adaptations – Foucault with Ali Shari'ati, Lacan with Fanon, and Spinoza with Sylvia Wynter – the authors demonstrate what is at stake in the ongoing debate between humanism and posthumanism and contextualise it within contemporary global crises and the possibilities of revolution.

In its defence of political spirituality, this book pushes for a new trajectory in response to the gross inequalities of today, one that offers a very different view of revolution and its present-day potential.

- Adapted from the book's description at www.amazon.co.uk

 

RSVP: By 15 July 2016 (Click the link to RSVP) https://www.up.ac.za/calendar/event-rsvp/2276582/seminar-series-by-drucilla-cornell-and-stephan-seely

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