At the opening event of our series of events on the significance of the Frankfurt School on March 20 at the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, philosophy professor Christoph Menke (Goethe University, Normative Orders) and journalist Cord Riechelmann from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung will talk about the topic "What is liberation?". The focus of the […]
Prof Bruce A. Ackerman (Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale) I. How Real Is Virtual Reality? II. The Genetic Lottery During the early twentieth century, Heisenberg's Uncertainty and Einstein Relativity discredited the rigid Newtonian "laws" that had served as the foundation of Enlightenment thought for more than two hundred years. A host […]
The public sphere is currently in a poor state as a place for argumentative debate. In all camps, the aim often seems to be to discredit dissenting opinions as unacceptable. What runs counter to one's own convictions is branded as dangerous and should be banned from the public sphere, from publishing programs, museums or […]
Frankfurt School" discussion series Rainer Forst (Goethe University, Normative Orders) in conversation with Kia Vahland (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Two chairs, one table, spotlight on: What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the state of society today? On artistic freedom, the future of capitalism, peace and war. The discussion partners take a stand. The spoken […]
USA 1957 | Director: Sidney Lumet | Running time: 96 minutes Twelve jurors with profoundly different personalities and backgrounds must decide the fate of a juvenile defendant in a criminal trial. While most of the jurors want to convict the defendant quickly, one of them advocates a careful examination of the evidence and begins to […]
USA 1960 | Director: Stanley Kramer | Running time: 123 minutes Tennessee, 1925: At a small-town school, the young teacher Cates dares to teach the theory of evolution according to Charles Darwin and is immediately arrested as a result. In the ensuing trial, which goes down in US history as the "monkey trial", the fundamentalist […]
BRD 1981 | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Running time: 106 minutes In 1970s Germany, the two sisters Juliane and Marianne fight for social change. While Juliane campaigns for women's rights as a journalist, her sister Marianne chooses to fight as an underground terrorist. When Marianne is finally arrested, the sisters' conflict between ideological differences, […]
USA 1944 | Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Running time: 96 minutes After a German U-boat sinks a US passenger ship during World War II, some American survivors find themselves on a lifeboat. They manage to pull another castaway on board, who turns out to be a crew member of the German submarine. Faced with storms, […]
Liberal societies in Europe have been under pressure for some time to deal with new forms of protest and radicalization. It seems that these tendencies are being reinforced by the current acute crises. The Crisis Talk explores the questions of how threatening these developments really are for society and democracy and what approaches are available […]