Rick Elmore: "Instruments of Tears: Art, Violence, and Life in Adorno's Critical Theory"

Rick Elmore: "Instruments of Tears: Art, Violence, and Life in Adorno's Critical Theory"

Rick Elmore, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Philosophy at Appalachian State University.  He has published several papers on violence, ecology and anthropocentrism, based on his critical appropriation of thinkers such as Derrida, Adorno and Baudrillard.  He is also the author of Between Deconstruction and Critical Theory: Violence, Life, and Method in the Work of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno, currently under review with the University of Edinburgh Press.

"Instruments of Tears:  Art, Violence, and Life in Adorno's Critical Theory”

Public Lecture: Wed., Oct. 1, 2:00-3:30, Winningham 107

Free and open to the public; Cosponsored by the Dept. of Philosophy