Professor Rahel Jaeggi develops a concept of progress that is intended to take account of the multifaceted challenges of the present.
Monday, 18. November 2019, 19:00 – 20:00 h
At Literaturhaus Zurich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich
In her new book, Rahel Jaeggi analyses the conceptual pair of progress and regression in order to chronicle and critique our time. She develops the term ‘progress’ to meet the needs of the diverse challenges of the present and to enforce the values of emancipation.
Rahel Jaeggi, born in 1967, has been a professor of practical philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2009, specialising in the philosophy of law and social philosophy. She is a representative of contemporary critical theory, and pursues such concepts as alienation, commodification and objectification, ideology, forms of life, institution, and solidarity.