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Lecture to discuss activist practice in Detroit

Dec 5th, 2017

UWindsor alumnus Grant Yocom, a special lecturer in philosophy at Michigan’s Oakland University, will discuss his research on urban social theory in the free public presentation “Here we live, here we shall live: Nietzsche, projective history and activist practice in Detroit,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, December 6, in the University Club Vanier Hall.

Dr. Yocom has worked with community organizations and artist collectives on both sides of the border and currently serves on the executive board of the Windsor Philosophical Arts Association.

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Grant Yocom
Humanities Research Group
Professor emeritus Adrian van den Hoven displays It Is Right To Rebel by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi and Pierre Victor. Van den Hoven and professor emeritus Basil Kingstone translated the book from its original French to English.Professor emeritus Adrian van den Hoven displays It Is Right To Rebel by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi and Pierre Victor. Van den Hoven and professor emeritus Basil Kingstone translated the book from its original French to English.

Professors emeritus translate Sartre's It Is Right to Rebel

Nov 22nd, 2017

The notions and ideas that poured out of conversations with a renowned French philosopher are just as poignant today as they were in 1972. And for the first time, those words transcribed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, and Pierre Victor in It Is Right to Rebel have been translated into English, thanks to two retired University of Windsor professors.

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Adrian van den Hoven
Basil Kingstone

Interaction between affect and language subject of lecture

Mar 9th, 2016

“There is no thinking outside language,” says Marcia Morgan. “Language is always in transit, exile, and dispossession.”

Professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg College, she will explore the interaction between affect and language as articulated in the works of Theodor W. Adorno and Julia Kristeva in her free public lecture, “The Affect of Dissident Language and Aesthetic Emancipation at the Margins,” Thursday, March 10, at 5:30 p.m. in room 2173, Chrysler Hall North.

Dr. Morgan says the two philosophers are united in their belief in emancipation through art.