Ethical Humans: Living and Learning in the Shadows of Auschwitz and Hiroshima 
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler (Goldsmiths University)

5.30-7.00 pm
 
There will be no face-to-face gathering for this seminar at UCL Institute of Education, this week.
 
How was our education formative in shaping our sense of ourselves as ethical humans? How did we learn within a liberal moral culture to put the past behind us and so to abstract ourselves from class, race and gender relations of power as we learn to frame ourselves as individual rational selves? Influenced by Wittgenstein’s later work to ground concepts in everyday relationships and forms of life, I challenge liberal notions of the autonomy of ethics, while drawing in Simone Weil and feminist ethics to show the difficulties of engaging formative histories and relationships and their emotional and traumatic effects.
   
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Emeritus Professor of Social Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London. He has published across the boundaries of social theory and philosophy, including Kant, Respect and Injustice: The Limits of Liberal Moral Theory; The Moral Limits of Modernity: Love, Inequality and Oppression; Unreasonable Men: Masculinity and Social Theory; Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities; Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multiculture and Belongings after 7/7; Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory. Most recently Making Sense of Brexit: Democracy, Europe and Uncertain Futures (Policy Press, 2018) Ethical Humans: Life, Love, Labour, Learning and Loss (Routledge  2021).
 
Note: A paper for this meeting is attached here. 

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