Seyed Javad Miri and I are planning to edit a book about Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and its relevance to critical social theory. If you are interested in contributing to this project, or know someone who is, send us an email. The Call for Papers is attached.
On June 17th, 2021, I participated in another global roundtable via Zoom, this time on the Iranian sociologist, Ali Shariati. This event is sponsored by Ekpyrosis Press, a new publishing house dedicated to critical thought in a complacent and apathetical world. My presentation is in Session 2. The videos of the event can be found below:
I am honored to be a presenter and discussant with this esteemed group of critical social theorists, discussing the dialectical nature of religion. My discourse will be on the dialectics of religious fanaticism, wherein I will tackle the one-dimensional understanding of fanaticism from both a psychological and ideological perspective. The video of this discourse will be available soon.
Over the course of the last years, I have built and maintained the Rudolf J. Siebert Audio-Visual Archive, wherein you can find over one hundred videos on the topic of Critical Theory of Religion and Society. Now, am pleased to announce the establishment of a New YouTube Channel dedicated to my own recent lectures, speeches, and discourses. These lectures will cover a variety of issues, including Critical Theory, political philosophy, religion in the modern world, etc. I hope you will enjoy watching my ramblings! The first among many video to come can be found below:
To see more videos, see the link below:
This event is sponsored by Olivet College’s Department of Humanities, and took place on May 17th, 2021. I was honored to present my work with a stellar list of discussants.
I was honored to join an august group of international scholars from the United States, Russia, Germany, Iran, and Singapore to discuss the lasting influence and heritage of Critical Theory. I presented my paper, “Between Ethno-nationalism and Pathological Critique: Critical Theory as Critique and Defense of the Western Tradition,” which I intend to extend into a publishable article in the next month. After the great discussions we had during this event, there is much more to think though, explore, and analyze. Thank you to Seyed Javad Miri and Dmitry Ivanov for facilitating this great event.
I am pleased to announce that an essay I co-authored with Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert and Dr. Michael R. Ott has now been published in Jeremiah Morelock’s edited book, How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School. This book has been published by Brill and contains eighteen chapters from a variety of important scholars in the field of Critical Theory, sociology, and political philosophy. Our essay is entitled “Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectics: Determinate Negation.” This book will later be published in paperback by Haymarket Books (Chicago).
Link to Brill’s Website: How to Critique Authoritarian Populism
I was fortunate to be able to contribute to the discussion on the importance of the Islamic Revolution in Iran of 1979, with Fasih Osmani of Saed News, an academic portal in Iran. We discussed Imam Khomeini, the sociologist and revolutionary Ali Shariati, the Frankfurt School, and other pertinent topics. Here are the links to the interview:
In an effort to preserve, study, and further develop the work of Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert, and the “dialectical religiology” of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society, I have launched a new website. I hope this new website will be useful for scholars and researchers as they study critical theory, political theology, Hegelian philosophy, and other topics that Siebert has written about over the course of the last half century.
Additionally, many of Dr. Siebert’s works will be republished by Ekpyrosis Press, a new academic peer-reviewed publishing house, dedicate to the advancement of dialectical and emancipatory thought in an age of apathy and nationalism. Dr. Siebert’s first book with Ekpyrosis Press, Hegel and the Critical Theory of Religion: Determinate Negation, will be available in the spring of 2021.
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