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The Center for the Humanities proudly presents: 
The Future of Immortality: Theodor W. Adorno and the Irreducible Permanence of the Theologico-Political
Hent de Vries
Professor in the Humanities Center and the Department of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University
October 24, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
Pyle Center
In this lecture Hent de Vries offers a powerful lens for thinking about the endurance of immortality in modernity. Drawing upon Claude Lefort and Theodor Adorno, de Vries explains that although immortality no longer signifies the individual soul's existence beyond the body's demise, it nevertheless resists being fully secularized. Immortality thus emerges as a key instance where a theological trope continues to shape our social space and serves as a condition of justice, the rule of law, freedom, and democracy.Hent De Vries's lecture is part of the conference The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law October 24-26, 2008 at the Pyle Center, UW-Madison.
Submitted by UW Law School Newsletter Admin on October 20, 2008
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