INAUGURAL LECTURE - MA POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 2025-26

"The Corporeal Roots of Freedom", delivered by Søren Mau 

Date: 22 October 2025

Place: Auditori Mercè Rodoreda (Ciutadella campus)

Time: 18:30

Søren Mau is a political philosopher and the author of Mute Compulsion (Verso Books, 2023). His work centres on critical theories of capitalism, power, ecology, the body, technology, human nature, and utopian thought, with the central theme of freedom: its nature and sources, the political and economic barriers to its realization under contemporary capitalism, and its potential forms in a post-capitalist world.