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NEGATIVITY AND FREEDOM:
Philosophic Alternatives to Capitalism, War and Terror
Today's drive for war has exposed not alone the inhumanity of Bush's war
against Iraq, but also the inhumanity of the entire social, political and
economic system upon which it is based. Can the growing opposition to the U.S.
drive for permanent war issue a new challenge to the existence of
capitalism-imperialism? What kind of social relations represent an alternative
to this system? What concepts of liberation can help us deveop an expansive
vision of a different world?
To explore such questions we are holding these meetings on "Negativity
and Freedom. Philosophic Alternatives to Capitalism, War and Terror." We
will explore with new eyes the work of Marx, especially his theory of commodity
fetishism. We explore anew the work of Hegel, whose ideas Marx considered
"the source of all dialectic." And we will explore how the dialectic
in Hegel and Marx was re-created in our day in the development of
Marxist-Humanism. All of this will be undertaken in light of contemporary
philosophic alternatives, from post-structuralism to pragmatism, from
existentialism to autonomist Marxism. In this way we aim to collectively work
out a philosophy of liberation for our times. The readings will include
selections from the Marxist-Humanist thinker
Raya Dunayevskaya as well as from post-war European philosophers including
Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, Julia Kristeva and Antonio Negri.
Meetings:
- MARX'S CAPITAL AND TODAY'S GLOBAL CRISIS... and the Debate Over
Humanism, Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism
- INTRODUCING THE DIALECTIC IN HEGEL AND MARX... and Pragmatism's Attack
on Dialectics
- HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY I: STARING NEGATIVITY IN THE FACE... and
Debates on the Dialectic of Race and Slavery
- HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY II: THE SELF-ALIENATED SPIRIT OF
MODERNITY... From the French Revolution to Today
- HEGEL'S ABSOLUTES... END OF HISTORY OR VISION OF A NEW SOCIETY?...
and the Challenges from Critical Theory and Existentialism
- TOWARD THE DIALECTICS OF ORGANIZATION AND PHILOSOPHY... and the
Challenge to Youth and Women from Post-Structuralism and Negri's Empire.
Contact the News and Letters Committees
nearest to you for meeting times and places or the syllabus.
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