Call For Papers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MOISHE POSTONE
APRIL 28TH -29TH, 2011
55 W 13th St., New York, New York
The New School University
The New School for Social Research
“It is impossible completely to understand Marx’s Capital, and especially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of Hegel’s Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!!” wrote Lenin in 1915. In 1969, Althusser responded, “A century and a half later no one has understood Hegel because it is impossible to understand Hegel without having thoroughly studied and understood Capital.” What are we to make of this challenge today? Are we now ready to understand Hegel through Marx, and Marx through Hegel?
It is high time for a reassessment of the core stakes of the Marx-Hegel debate. What would it mean to think the concepts of capital and spirit together? This conference is a place to explore the internal relations between Hegel and Marx’s philosophical projects. Some possible questions include: how does Hegel’s phenomenology, logic, philosophy of nature, history and right internally contain the elements that Marx will use to decipher the world of property, labor, commodities and capital? Is Capital a logical theory of forms or a theory of history? How does Marx negate and realize Hegel’s project? What is the role of labor in Hegel, and the role of spirit in Marx? Does the development of history show the unfolding of freedom or the unfolding of capital? This conference echoes the early Frankfurt school tradition, with its project for a critique of the social forms of the present.Themes
We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics and thinkers:
Themes
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Thinkers
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The Philosophy of Right
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I.I. Rubin
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Substance and Subject in Capital
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György Lukács
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Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Grundrisse
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Karl Korsch
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Property, Alienation, and Class
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Ernst Bloch
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Form and Content in Hegel and Marx
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Walter Benjamin
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Concrete and Abstract Labor
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Alfred Sohn-Rethel
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Master and Slave
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Theodore Adorno
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Critique, Dialectic and Method
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Herbert Marcuse
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Time and History
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CLR James
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Freedom and Necessity
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Raya Dunayevskaya
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The Value-Form
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Guy Debord
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Critique of Labor
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Alexander Kojeve
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Revolution and Negation
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Jean Hyppolite
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Proletarian Self-Abolition
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Frantz Fanon
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Materialism and Idealism
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Helmut Reichelt
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Commodity, Money and Capital
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Hans-Georg Backhaus
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Capital and Spirit
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Gillian Rose
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Papers ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 words should be submitted in blind review format to s p i r i t o f c a p i t a l @ gmail.com
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