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German Culture News Cornell University Institute for German Cultural Studies GERMAN CULTURE NEWS CORNELL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR GERMAN CULTURAL STUDIES / (lif _'1/01 , 0/111/1<' \ \" I RETROSPECTIVE OF FROM FRANKFURT TO GERMAN COLLOQUIUM Los ANGELES FALL 2001 AND BACK: DAADSUMMERSEMTNAR On September 7,200I, an enthusiastic crowd assembled for the first Institute AoifeNaughton colloquium ofthe academic year. Pre­ senting his paper, "Miracles Happen: The opening ofthe Cornell University! Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Limits DAAD summerseminar"From Frankfun of the Enlightenment," was Professor to Los Angeles and Back: The Fate of Eric L.Santner, the Harriet and Ulrich Critical Theory in the International De­ E. Meyer Professor in the Department of bate after World War II" saw an influx of Gennanic Studiesand the Commineeon visiting professors from colleges and Jewish Studies at the UniversityofChi­ universitiesacross the U,S. and Canada to cago. In his paper, Santner compared Photo by Ifg/lS Meyer-Veden attend the six·week seminar led by Peter Walter Benjamin's understanding of Hohendahl. Thegoal ofthe seminar, which historical material ism asit appears in his PATRIOTISM, ran from June 18 to July 27, 2001, was to "Theses on the Philosophy ofHistory" encourage research by young scholars in to Franz Rosenzweig's reading of the COSMOPOLITANISM, the fieldofcriticaltheory. DAAD fellow­ "philosophy of creation," proposed ships were awarded to Hester Bat'r(Duke in his The Star of Redemption. AND NATIONAL CULTURE: University), Karyn Ball (University of Rosenzweig's notoriously difficult work HAMBURG CONFERENCE Albena),Sinkwan Cheng(CUNY), Karin is also the subject of Samner's highly Crawford (Stanford University), Sylvia esteemed new book, On the Lopez(CarletonCollege), Ce<:i1ia Novero Psychotheology ofEveryday Life: Re­ Emily Gunzberger (Pennsylvania State University), Max flections on Freud and Rosenzweig Nicholas Mathew Pensky (Binghamton University), Den­ (UniversityofChicagoPress,2oo I), The Ross Halverson nis Redmond (University of Oregon), colloquium provided Samner and the Casey Servais Nicholas Rennie (Rutgers University), colloquium participants an opportunity Nels Rogers (University of Tennessee, to probe and to explicate some of this Manin), Scott Scribner (University of book's faHeaching insights. The Institute for Gennan Cultuml Studies, Connecticut, Waterbury), Clayton Santner expressed his interest in the together with the departments ofMusic and Steinman (Macalester College) and "event structure ofeveryday that regis­ Architecture, presented a conference from Carsten Strathausen (University of tersexcess." ForRosenzweig, this "im­ Novemberone to the third entitled "Patrio­ Missouri), minent excess" is marked by a "revela­ tism, Cosmopolitanism, andNational Cul­ The topic ofthe seminar was the interna­ tory miracle,"wh ich Santnerdefi ned as ture: Public Culture in Hamburg J700­ tionalization of critical theory after "an event that suspends the nonnal way 2000." The event was generously endowed Horkheimerand Adorno returned to Ger­ by virtue of fantasmatic defense," with funds from the Zeit-Stiflung Ebelin und many in 1949and HerbenMarcusechose Rosenzweig is concernedwith miracles Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, the Max Kade to remain in the United States. The semi­ of the "post-Enlightenment age," Foundation in New York City, the Cornell nar focused on the appropriation of the Santner explains, in which miracles are University Provost, DepartmentofGerman Frankfurt School in the West, where the not "a breach of natural law of some Studies, Department ofMusic, Department belated translation of Habennas's The sort," but a "fundamentally semiotic ofArchitecture, and the Cornell Council for StrocturaJ Transformation ofthe Public structure." Specifically, this type of the Arts. Organizers were Peter Hohendahl Sphere( 1991), togetherwiththe increased (continued on page /4) (continued on page 6) (continued on page /3) German Culture News Page J faults ofcapitalism invisible, yet disagree SYMPOSIUM would presumably ground an essentially on how this happens. Marcuse,heclaimed, different society. REVISITS defends a notion of technological ratio­ Habennas links Marcuse's account to MARCUSE-HABERMAS nality that necessarily involves values. Jewish and Protestant mysticism. seem­ DEBATE But Marcuse also suggests that rational­ inglyasadismissal. Yet Maxwell followed itycanbe radicallytrans-valuedand made up on this link to suggest limitations in Ryan Plumley appropriate to a post-capitalist mode of Habennas's own view. If, as Habennas production. Habennas, meanwhile, un­ seems to say, utopian hope must dwell Madeleine Reich Casad derstands capitalism as encouraging a solely in rationally justified, fonnal category mistake in which social and proceduralismunderwritingliberaldemoc­ On Saturday, October 12. tht: Institute political problems are seen as technical racy, exactly what kind ofutopia is this? forGennanCulrural Studies helda sympo­ problems. Technological ralionality as Marcuse, he claimed, retains a commit- siwnenritled"lsThere ment to a world a New Technology?'" made new through thai engaged the '\ - \, "the sum of mod­ }~ Herbert Marcuse­ ..'-.' . '. est changes." [n Jurgcn Habennasde­ Maxwell's view, it bate over the status is exactly Mar­ and meaning of tech­ cuse's "deeply nology in the modem founded and pro­ world. Thefirsthalfof ductive concern the event focused on with the irrational" Marcusc's article, that allows him to "Industrializationand keep faith with the Capitalisminthe Work utopian element of ofMax Weber:' with Marxismthat,after Richard BO)'d (Phi­ all, infonns what­ losophy), BarryMu:­ ever"hardscience" weU(Comparative lit­ Borr)' Maxwell (I.). ewey&n'aiJ, Richard Boyd Marxoffered. erature), and Casey CaseyServais fin­ ~rvais (Gennan Srudies) speaking indi­ such is not to blame for such a schemeand ished the panel's presentations with a viduallyandasapanel. Fred Neuhouser needs no substantial alteration to fit into c1oserreadingofMarcuse. He maintained (Philosophy), who organized the sympo­ a post-capitalist productive system. that Weber's thought ultimately over­ sium. introduced the panel briefly and Barry Maxwell argued that Habennas's powcred Marcusc's attempt to critique it then let the speakers develop the themes response to Marcuse "simply does accu­ and thcrcfore undertook an immanent cri­ that guided the day's discussions. rately point out in Marcuse's argumenta­ tique of Marcusc's essay using thc Boyd began with a philosophical analy­ tion contradictions to which the latter Weberian resources that it offered. sis of Marcuse's and Habcnnas's argu· appearstohavebeen oblivious." Marcuse Marcuse's ccntral weakness, Servais ar­ mcnts. In his account, both figures reject seems committed to two opposed ideas of gued, is that he constantly conflates the Marx's contention thatscicntific and tech­ technological rationality simultaneously. practicaVpolitical reason and the techni­ nological rationality provide the prole­ The first holds that it is always already cal reason that Weber is at pains to distin­ tariat with intellectual tools for its libera­ implicated in a social system and that it is guish. At times. Marcuse makes it seem tion. Rather, it does the reverse, under· part of a pan·human tendency to domi­ "that practical reason is an attribute of writing empirical as well as discursive nate natural and social environments. technical reason. and at other points it allempts to attenuate class struggle. The Habennas seems to approve ofthischar­ appears that technical reason is an at­ combination ofwei fare-state concessions aClerization of humans, leading him to tribute of'political reason.·.. Either way, and incorporation of many proletarians reject Marcuse's apparently contradic­ however, the possibility/desirability ofa into capitalist consumer culture is en· torycounterclaim: technological rational­ qualitatively different technological ra· abled by technological rationality's com· ity can be re-rouled toward a utopian, tionality rnay be seen assimplysymptom­ mitment to "problem-solving" and end, post-capitalist future. Marcuse's "New atic of Marcuse's inability to articulate less (but intemally-defined) progress. Science"(Habennas's phrase) would"ar­ independent ethical or political aspira­ lloyd also contended that both figures rive at essentially different concepts of tions. see this fonn ofrationality as making the natureand essentially differerll facts" that Peler Gilgen {Gennan Studies) opened (cominuedonpage /6) Pagel German Culture News PRESIDENT OF DAADWEEKEND: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS VISITS CORNELL APPROPRIAT10NSOFGERMANTHOUGHTAND CULTURE Leah Chizek On September 24 Jijrgen Mlynek. presi­ ChristopherClark denlofHumboldt University. Berlin, vis­ MarianneTenlebawn ited Cornell University. He wasaccompa· nied by Anne-Barbara Ischinger, vice We are still learning what it means to posed to accusations of treason. presidentofuniversity relations, and Pro­ study and teach the cultural Other. This fessor Mlynek. a leading computerscien· was the message ofthe lecture entitled "In list. President Mlynek responded to an theShadowofBerlin? The RiseofGennan invitation extended by President Rawl ings Studies in the United Slates" wilh which when he and a team ofComeII adminislrn· Peter Uwe Hohendahl(ComeU Univer· lorsand faculty visited Humboldt Univer· sity)openedthe200IDAADweekendon sityinOctoberof2000.Theoccasion was Septcmber22. Inchaninglhedisciplinc's a conference on the future ofthe univer­ slateside developmenl, Hohendahl fore­ sity organized by
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