Frederik van Gelder

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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

(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Existentialism on the threshold to Critical Theory: Franz Rosenzweig and the end of the 'German-Jewish Synthesis'" (unpublished ms.)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 (unpublished: Palais Jalta, Frankfurt, 28.1.1997.)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 - Debate 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 (unpublished paper.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 - Reflections on a current controversy within Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis" (unpublished; lecture held at Centrum 45, Oegsgeest, Netherlands.)

(2000): "Erinnerung und Trauma - Überlegungen zum Umgang der Psychiatrie und Psychoanalyse mit Überlebenden der Shoah" (unpublished.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 (unpublished.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)

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.)

 

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.

Reviews

(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.

work in progress

Jürgen Habermas: Handlungsrationalität und gesellschaftliche Rationalisierung. (These are the - almost - complete lecture transscripts of Habermas' lecture course, delivered at Frankfurt University, starting in the summer semester 1978, of what would eventually see the light of day as the Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns [The Theory of Communicative Action]) Containing all of the spoken comments and elaborations, and much material that throws light on later controversies.

 

Film

2007: Born in hiding. (Claudia & Günter Wallbrecht)

 

Popular Press (articles on Frederik van Gelder)

 

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)