Robert Pfaller

Robert Pfaller is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. Founding member of the Viennese psychoanalytic research group “stuzzicadenti”. In 2007 he was awarded “The Missing Link” price for connecting psychoanalysis with other scientific disciplines, by Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zurich – for the German edition of his book “The Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions Without Owners” (“Die Illusionen der anderen. Ueber das Lustprinzip in der Kultur. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2002).

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13.05.2020

Press release

“The Missing Denominator” – new book edited by Jan Sowa

The latest publication edited by sociologist Jan Sowa comprises a collection of texts whose shared point of departure was the...
12.05.2020

New book edited by Jan Sowa

“The Missing Denominator”

The challenge is not how to make these people accept Western rationality, but how to stop the affluent Northern classes from...
24.04.2019

SYMPOSIUM

The Missing Denominator – Universalism and Progressive Cultural Politics

Universalism seems to be one of the most ambivalent and contradictory, yet also valuable elements of European cultural legacy. On the...
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