Past Activities
Adorno Symposium
To commemorate the 50th year of the passing of Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), the Department of Philosophy wishes to invite everyone to a panel discussion with the theme "All Along the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Theory, Education, and Culture."
Theodor W. Adorno was a former director of the Institut für Sozialforschung, housed in the Universität Frankfurt am Main (now, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), and a notable member of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. He is known for works such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (co-authored with Max Horkheimer, published in 1947), Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (1951), Prisms (1955), Notes to Literature (1958, 1961), Three Studies on Hegel (1963), The Jargon of Authenticity (1964), Negative Dialetics (1966), and Aesthetic Theory (posthumously published in 1970).
The panel will feature Dr. Jovito V. Cariño, Mr. Ranier V. Abengaña, and Dr. Paolo A. Bolaños, with Ms. Raphaella Elaine R. Miranda as the session moderator. The panel will engage with and disengage from two key interviews featuring Adorno, on the year of his death: one with Der Spiegel ("Who's Afraid of the Ivory Tower?") and another with Hellmut Becker ("Education for Maturity and Responsibility").
This event will take place on 17 October 2019 (Thursday), from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Martyrs' Hall of the Ecclesiastical Faculties, University of Santo Tomas). This event is free and open to the public.
