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Frederik van Gelder
Books, Monographs
(1990): Habermas' Begriff des Historischen Materialismus. Peter Lang Verlag.
(1996): Index to Max Horkheimer: Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 19. (Together with Rainer Clodius) Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Papers, Articles, Lectures
(1989): "Jewish Existentialism on the threshold to Critical Theory: Franz Rosenzweig and the end of the 'German-Jewish Synthesis'" (unpublished ms.)
(1995): "Psychoanalysis and the Holocaust - or: Subject and Object brought upto date" in: Mitteilungen - Institut für Sozialforschung, 6, p. 79-94. Frankfurt am Main.
(1997): "Die Esther-Rolle - Psychoanalyse des Holocaust. Fünfzig Jahre danach - was heißt es 'Jude zu sein' in Deutschland?" (unpublished: Palais Jalta, Frankfurt, 28.1.1997.)
(1998): "Trauma und Gesellschaft - Debatte über Trauma und Kriegsfolgen in den Niederlanden und in Deutschland" in: Forschung Frankfurt - Wissenschaftsmagazin der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 4. English version: "Trauma and Society - Debate about psychological consequences of the Second World War in the Netherlands and in Germany." Dutch version: "Trauma en maatschappij - Het debat in Nederland en Duitsland over de psychische effecten van de oorlog", in: ICODO-Info, nr. 1/2-99, July 1999, p. 61-72. (Informatie- en Coördinatieorgaan Dienstverlening Oorlogsgetroffenen, Utrecht.).
(1999): "Anne Frank was not Alone - the 'Hidden Child Congress' in Amsterdam 1992" in: 'Für ein Kind war das anders.' Traumatische Erfahrungen jüdischer Kinder und Jugendlicher im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland (ed. Barbara Bauer, Waltraud Strickhausen). Berlin: Metropol.
(1999): "Über einige methodologische Schwierigkeiten bei der Vermittlung von Kritischer Theorie und Psychoanalyse" . (unpublished paper. Forschungskolloquium Lutz-Bachmann, Fachbereich Philosophie.)
(1999): "What is 'real trauma'? - Reflections on a current controversy within Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis" (unpublished; lecture held at Centrum 45, Oegsgeest, Netherlands.)
(2000): "Erinnerung und Trauma - Überlegungen zum Umgang der Psychiatrie und Psychoanalyse mit Überlebenden der Shoah" (unpublished. Public lecture, Jüdische Volkshochschule, Frankfurt am Main.)
(2002): "Adornos Hamlet" in: Programmheft Nr. 22, Schauspiel, Frankfurt am Main. (Hamlet production by Gottfried Greiffenhagen, Schauspiel Frankfurt, premiere of 21 Sept. 2002)
(2003): "Adorno - Werk und Wirkung. Zum 100. Geburtstag." (unpublished. Volkshochschule Gelderland.)
(2004): "Adorno's concept of dialectics - a paradigm for the present?" in: Die Zukunft der Vernunft. Zur Aktualität von Theodor W. Adorno (ed. Gunzelin Schmid-Noerr and Kurt Schmidts). Congress Paper, Goethe Institut and University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
(2005): "Jihad behind the dikes - The end of the post-war period in the Netherlands" Institut für Sozialforschung, 12.11.2005, public lecture. (unpublished.) (German version: "Djihad hinterm Deich. Das Ende der Nachkriegszeit in den Niederlanden.")
(2005): "Jürgen Habermas: morality and legality 'after 9/11'" . published in: Harry Kunneman, Geert Munnicks, Frederik van Gelder: "Jürgen Habermas". in: Denkers van nu (ed. Hans Achterhuis et.al.). Reprinted in Kritisch Denkerslexicon, Alphen aan den Rijn, 2005.
(2007): "communicatieve ethiek' [lexicon article]. in: M. Becker, B. van Stokkom, P. van Tongeren, J.-P. Wils (eds.): Lexicon van de ethiek, Assen, Netherlands. (Van Gorcum)
(2008): "'Non-identity', 'contradiction', and 'reification' in Adorno's Negative Dialectics" (A version of this paper was delivered at the congress "Beyond Reification: Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis", Rome, May 2008.)
The following papers were delivered under the aegis of The Ashworth Program for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, where I was the Faculty of Arts Visiting Scholar for 2007:
(2007): "On the concept of Critique"
(2007): "Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment"
(2007): "Adorno's Negative Dialectics"
(2007): "Is dialectics 'history'?"
(2007): "Habermas and The Theory of Communicative Action"
(2013): "Herdenken - een filosofische beschouwing" English original: "Commemoration - a philosophical view".
(2013): "Adorno's Minima Moralia - filosofie in moeilijke tijden" English original: "Immediacy and its vicissitudes - on the occasion of a new translation of Adorno's Minima Moralia"
(2015): Adorno on: what is art? (Lustrumlezing, Amsterdamse Academische Club, Universiteit van Amsterdam.) poster here
Conferences
(1996): "Do the Mass Media trivialize the Holocaust? Reflections on Horkheimer and Adorno's 'culture industry' concept". Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz and Genocide: Philosophical Challenges. Bonn, October 1996. (SPSG: Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust)
(1999) "Für ein Kind war das anders." Internationale Tagung der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Literarische und künstlerische Repräsentationsformen traumatischer Kindheitserfahrung im nationalsozialistischen Terrorsystem. (c.f. "Anne Frank was not alone", under papers.)
(1999): "Psychoanalysis and Politics in the work of Theodor W. Adorno. Or: The Freudian Turn in Critical Theory". (Paper read at the Annual Congress of the Australian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, July 1999.)
(2005): "Personal Identity, collective identity, the identity of science - continental versus analytic perspectives". Paper read at: Identity: Ontological Perspectives. An International Conference on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. May 25-27, 2005. (unpublished.)
(2005): "Social Crisis and German Idealism - in search of the origins of Critical Theory". Paper read at: The Future of Critical Theory. Conference organised by the Ashworth program in Social theory, (Department of History and Philosophy of Science), University of Melbourne, 17-18 November. (unpublished.)
(2010): "Anne Frank: Symbol of Hope or Holocaust victim?
(2012): "Economic Crisis and mass media - the 'Culture Industry' as both cause and effect of global turmoil". Paper read at: Communication, Crisis and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism. European Sociological Association - Research Network Sociology of Communication and Media Research. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, October 18-20, 2012. (unpublished.)
Translations
(1987): Theodor W. Adorno: "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?" in: Modern German Sociology (ed. Volker Meja, Dieter Misgeld, Nico Stehr). Columbia U. Press.
(2000): Max Horkheimer - [Letter to Adorno, re Habermas]. (unpublished.)
(2000): Dunya Breur: A heart-to-heart with my father (extract, unpublished. Bookfair, Frankfurt am Main)
(2001): Helmut Dahmer: "Antisemitism and Xenophobia - How to solve the riddle of the Sphinx" in: Australian J. of Jewish Studies, 15.
(2002): Rolf Tiedemann: "Adorno, Philosopher and Composer. On the Occasion of his piano pieces" (unpublished.)
(2003): Theodor W. Adorno: lecture 2 + editor's postscript: Lectures on Negative Dialectics.
(2003): Helmut Dahmer: "Regression of a critical theory - on the fate of the 'Psychoanalytic Movement'" in: Free Associations, 2003
(2003:) Jürgen Habermas: "What does the felling of the monument mean?" (unpublished)
(2007): Albrecht Wellmer: "Adorno and the Difficulties of a Critical Reconstruction of the Historical Present" in: Critical Horizons - A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 8, nr. 2.
(2012): Gunzelin Schmid Noerr: "The materiality of Reason - On the possibility of Critical Theory Today". (This is the translation of an early version of "Kann man heute noch kritische Theorie betreiben?" in: Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie, Lüneburg, nr. 34-35, 2012.)
(2014): "Max Horkheimer's critique of Marxist positivism in Henryk Grossmann." (Translation of an excerpt from a letter by Max Horkheimer to Henryk Grossmann, dated 20.1.1943.) (German original here)
Reviews
(1997): William H. Dray: History as Re-enactment - R.G. Collingwood's Idea of History. in: Philosophy in Review, 17 (1) 25-27.
(2000): Dina Wardi: Memorial candles - children of the Holocaust. in: International Network for Interdisciplinary Research about the Impact of Traumatic Experience on the Life of Individuals and Society.
(2012): Daniel Pick: The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind - Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts. Oxford University Press.
work in progress
Website: The Frankfurt School - resource for academics
Film/TV/Press (personal history Frederik van Gelder)
2007: Born in hiding (Claudia & Günter Wallbrecht)
2012: 3sat (Scobel)
Monique Marreveld (1993): "Hebreeuws geschrift in Noordhollands Oudesluis" in: Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad, Amsterdam. 9 April 1993. (English translation here. German translation here)
Monique Marreveld (1993): "Estherrol is weer thuis" in: Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad, Amsterdam. 30.4.1993 (English translation here. German here.)
Monique Marreveld (1994): "Van Kaapstad tot Den Haag - op zoek naar solidariteit" in: Nieuw Israelisch Weekblad. (English translation here. German here.) Extracts in Joop D. Kila (1999): De Kille aan het Marsdiep - Anderhalve eeuw Joodse gemeenschap in Den Helder. Helderse Historische Reeks, no. 11. (uitgeverij pirola)
Bas van Sluis (2003): "Anne Frank niet enige oorlogskind" Noordhollands Dagblad, 19.11.2003. (German translation here)