The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German philosophy. In this episode of the Young Idealist, I am joined by the talented Dr. Kyla Bruff who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bruff helps navigate the viewer through the complex life and philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno.

Kyla's presentation is profoundly detailed, articulate and a passionate display of how Adorno's thought as a philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and culture critic, is important for contemporary problems today.

Kyla Guides us through Adorno's relationship with the Frankfurt school, and also breaks down the critical, philosophical, and political implications of Adorno's thought in two of his main works: Minimal Moralia and Negative Dialectics. This leads our discussion to think through many diverse philosophers that were in constant dialogue with Adorno like; Marx, Hegel, Horkheimer, Kant, Schelling, Bloch, and Gershom Scholem.

Kyla Bruff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bruff’s areas of expertise are in classical German philosophy, Critical theory; 20th c. French Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Existentialism; and German Romanticism. Much of Dr Bruff's research investigates the metaphysical commitments and historical roots of contemporary ideological orientations. She is currently focusing on different understandings of nature in the critical theory tradition and their potential implications for how we think about the ecological crisis.

One of Dr. Bruff’s ongoing projects develops a critical analysis of populism out of the work of Theodor W. Adorno. She has presented multiple papers on Adorno’s aesthetics and his views of history and nature, as well as on the Schelling-Adorno connection, Messianism within the Frankfurt School, and on the work of Max Horkheimer.

Her chapter on “Schelling and the Frankfurt School” will be published this year in the Palgrave Schelling Handbook, of which she is a co-editor. She has additionally taught seminars on the Frankfurt School at Carleton University.

Dr. Bruff is also a Schelling expert and wrote her doctoral dissertation on Schelling’s political philosophy—the first standalone monograph on the topic in English.

Additionally, Dr. Bruff is committed to innovative, practical approaches to carrying out philosophy in public, as one can see through her activities as Co-Director of the ecological NPO For A New Earth (FANE).

She is also a translator of French and German texts into English. She has published translations, including the first appearance of Schelling’s Late Political Philosophy: Lectures 22-24 of the Presentation of the Purely Rational Philosophy in English. Finally, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Kabiri: The Official Journal of the North American Schelling Society, as well as the Treasurer and Secretary of the North American Schelling Society.

Dr. Kyla Bruff, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at Carleton University: Link [ Ссылка ]

Kyla Bruff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Personal Website:
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Kyla Bruff, Academia. [ Ссылка ]

For A New Earth: Kyla Bruff. [ Ссылка ]

Adorno's The F Scale Test for Fascist and Authoritarian Personality Studies:
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