“Bringing His Own Skin to Market and Has Nothing to Expect but a Tanning”: Dramatis Personae and Their Bodies

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Online () See map
Event description: 

The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Massimiliano Tomba, University of California, Santa Cruz
Massimiliano Tomba is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Previously, he taught political philosophy at the University of Padua. He has published several texts on the political philosophy of Kant, Hegel, the post-Hegelians, Marx, and Walter Benjamin, among them Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer: Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken (2005); La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: La possibilità della giustizia (2006); Marx’s Temporalities (2013); Attraverso la piccolo porta: Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin (2017); and Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (2019).
This talk will be on-line via Zoom. Details to follow.

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