Florian Grosser

Florian Grosser is a lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theorien der Revolution (Junius, 2013; revised 2nd edition 2018); a short version, entitled “Political Revolution,” has appeared in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Contributions

Another Revolution: Building Modern Worlds at the Interface of Art, Culture, and Politics

To think about “another revolution” in our contemporary moment means to also think about another crisis of revolution. Not unlike the middle of the last century—with its prevailing sense among Western intellectuals that historical revolutions had failed and that, consequently, revolution had largely been discredited as a political concept and project—there is a palpable disillusionment with radically transformative endeavors among progressives around the globe today