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Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to Marcuse
Wednesday, 9 - Friday, 11 September 2009 

Co-Ordinators: Jerome Carroll, Steve Giles and Maike Oergel 
(Nottingham)

Programme

Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Room ST 273, 274/275, 276 Stewart House 

13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome and Introduction
14.15  Keynote Lecture: Michael Bell (Warwick): Moral Sentimentalism 
and the Genesis of the Aesthetic  

15.15 Tea 

15.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: Genesis of the Aesthetic
Rajesh Heynickx (Antwerp/Brussels): 'Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft' on 
Trial. The First International Congress on Aesthetics in Berlin (1913) 
Paul Bishop (Glasgow): Artistic Distance and Existential Self-
Sculpting: Classical Aesthetics and Hedonist Ethics
Maike Oergel (Nottingham): The Aesthetics of Historicity: Poetry in 
Schiller's and Friedrich Schlegel's Concepts of Modernity

15.45 Schiller's Political Aesthetic
Paolo Panizzo (Berlin): Schillers 'Idealismus' zwischen ästhetischer 
Theorie und
gesellschaftlicher Praxis
Hans Kellner (North Carolina): The Historical Sublime and Modernity  

15.45 Aesthetic as Anti-Modernity I
Martin Potter (Bucharest): Thomas Mann and the Refoundation of Art
Olav Krämer (Freiburg): Form als Distanzierung von der schlechten 
Gegenwart: zu einer Argumentationsfigur bei Schiller, Lukács und Adorno 


Thursday, 10 September 2009
Room ST 273,274/275, 276 Stewart House 

9.30   PARALLEL SESSIONS: Schiller and Freedom
Vladimir Cepciansky (Stockholm): Modern Satire and the Satisfactions of
Self-Consciousness
Alexander Knopf (Heidelberg): Das artistische 'Ich': die Befreiung der 
Freiheit bei Schiller und Novalis
Marie-Christin Wilm (Berlin): Huizinga plays Schiller: zur Rezeption 
des Schillerschen Spielbegriffs in Huizingas Homo Ludens  

9.30    'Bildung' and the Aesthetic
Manuel Clemens (New Haven): Schillers ästhetische Bildungstheorie nach 
den
Verwirrungen von Törleß und dem beschädigten Leben Adornos
Loredana Niculet (Barcelona): Sensus communis aestheticus and the 
Project of Emancipation: the Utopian Frame of the Avant-Gardes
Norman Kaspe (Halle): Schiller's Concept of Innocence in Über naive und 
sentimentale Dichtung and the 19th-Century Aesthetic of the 'Innocent 
Eye' 

9.30    Miscellanea
Charles DeBord (Lexington): The Decline of Sensuous Divinity
Rachel MagShamhráin (Cork): Towards an Aesthetics of Postponement: on 
Prolepsis in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist  
Fred Rush (Indiana): The Value of Language

11.30  Coffee 

12.00  Keynote Lecture: Andrew Bowie (London): Why Aesthetics matters 
to Modern Philosophy 

13.00  Lunch (own arrangements) 

14.30  PARALLEL SESSIONS: Aesthetics of Experience 
Brian O'Connor (Dublin): Aesthetics and Normativity
Randall van Schepen (Rhode Island): 200 Years of Schiller's Aesthetic 
Modernism:
Criticism, Abstraction and Revolution
Martine Prange (Amsterdam): Tragic Joy as Principle of Society: 
Schiller, Nietzsche and Adorno 

14.30  Benjamin et al.
Arvi Sepp (Antwerp): Zwischen Politik und Ästhetik: die Avantgarde-
Auffassungen
Walter Benjamins und Theodor W. Adornos
Georg Otte (Minas Gerais): Klassenkampf und Mode: Walter Benjamin 
zwischen marxistischer Ethik und 'bürgerlicher' Ästhetik
Christine Achinger and Helmut Schmitz (Warwick): Benjamin/Brecht -
Adorno/Celan: Konstellationen einer Ästhetik vor und nach Auschwitz
Bram Mertens (Nottingham): 'Das System absolut zu erfassen': the 
Concept of Medium in Benjamin's Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der 
deutschen Romantik 

14.30  PARALLEL SESSIONS: Aesthetic as Anti-Modernity II
Stephan Mühr (Pretoria): 'Man muss die Dinge sich vor Augen halten 
...': Goethes
ästhetisches Programm als Kritik der Moderne
Sebastian Hüsch (Basle): Von der Ästhetik zum ästhetischen Stadium: 
Sören Kierkegaards Kritik an der Moderne
Eric Sean Nelson (Massachussetts): Aesthetics, Nature and Modernity in 
Adorno and Habermas
Steve Giles (Nottingham): Nazism and Modernism: Reflections on
'Degenerate' Art and Affirmative Culture 

16.30  Tea  

17.00  Keynote Lecture: Martin Swales (London): Tragedy and the 
Aesthetic
Dialectic 

19.00  Conference Dinner (further details
<http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/events/conference/SchillertoM
arcuse_D
innerMenu.pdf>) 

Friday, 11 September 2009
Room ST 273,274/275, 276 Stewart House 

9.30    PARALLEL SESSIONS: Marcuse
Gavin Rae (Warwick): Marcuse, Aesthetics and the Logic of Modernity
Alexia Bretas (Sao Paolo): The Schiller of the 20th Century: 
Aesthetics,
Modernity and Social Change in Herbert Marcuse
Luke Skrebowski (London): Marcusean Mediations: Marcuse, Burnham and 
Postformalist Aesthetics 

9.30    Poetics
Michael Collel (Trier): '... und starb mit verzerrten Zügen': zum 
Gerichtstag
des Ästhetismus bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Cristina Fossaluzza (Berlin): Poesie und Leben. Hugo von Hofmannsthals 
Märchen Die Frau ohne Schatten
Frauke Berndt (Frankfurt): The Symbol on the Move: from the Drawing 
Room of Aesthetics to the Basement of Culture 

9.30   Homo Aestheticus
Martin Travers (Queensland): 'Ek-Stasis': Away from a Theory of the 
Lyrical
Subject in Adorno and Heidegger
Rob Leventhal (Williamsburg): The Aesthetics of Case
Jerome Carroll (Nottingham): Philosophical Anthropology and 
Philosophical Aesthetics: Man's Problematic Relationship to Nature 

11.30 Coffee 

12.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS: Drama
Joshua Billings (Oxford): Ancient and Modern Tragedy: the Imperative of 
Reconciliation
Nikoletta Wassiliou (Aachen): Schillers philosophische Begründung der 
Poetik des Dramas
Nickolas Lambrianou (London): Benjamin and the Dramatist: Modernity, 
'Trauerspiel' and an Aesthetics of Crisis 

12.00 Music
James Parsons (Missouri): The Musical Poetics of Modernity: the Choral 
Finale of
Beethoven and Schiller's 'Ninth'
David Mosley (Kentucky): Lost in Reflection: Kierkegaard's Don Giovanni
Eran Guter (Yezreel): Wittgenstein on the Music of the Future 

12.00 Visual Culture
Gustav Frank (Munich): Die unsichtbare Hand. Schillers Medienästhetik 
der Moderne
Jason Gaiger (Milton Keynes): Site-Specificity and the Semblance-
Character of Art
Christoph Kleinschmidt (Münster): Of Prophets and Madmen: the Influence 
of Schiller and Nietzsche on the Aesthetics of Kandinsky 

14.00 Lunch (own arrangements) 

15.30 Keynote Lecture: Nicholas Saul (Durham): The Dark Side of 
Modernity:
Wilhelm Bölsche, Darwinism, Evolutionary Aesthetics and Spiritualism 

16.30 Closing Discussion
17.00 End of Conference

Further Information and Registration Details

To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact 
Jane
Lewin <[log in to unmask]>  (tel: 020 7862 8966).

Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 21 
August 2009. 

Conference Fees 

3 Days
£55.00
£50.00 Reduced Rate
£35.00 Student Rate 

1 Day
£35.00
£30.00 Reduced Rate
£25.00 Student Rate 

Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying 
members of the
IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only 

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This event is sponsored by the
The British Academy
The University of Nottingham

Jane Lewin
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST 272, Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966 
Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk