Lecture
LCCP Workshop Movements of the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, and post-1968 Marxist Philosophies
- Date
- Tuesday 27 May 2025 - Wednesday 28 May 2025
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.30 and PJ Veth 0.06
The Centre of Political Philosophy and the Leiden Centre of Continental Philosophy are pleased to announce a two-day workshop on Movements of the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, and post-1968 Marxist Philosophies.
Programme day 1, 27th May in Lipsius 1.30
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Farhan Idris (VUB) & Chua Zhong Xian (Leiden) | Introduction to the theme and book project |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Chua Zhong Xian (Leiden) | Merleau-Ponty and Laclau: The Role of the Imaginary in the Hyperdialectic and Hegemony |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Isabel Jacobs (Centre Marc Bloch & Queen Mary UoL) | Seeing the Invisible: Kojève, Merleau-Ponty, and Aesthetics after History |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Fabius Schoendube (Leiden) | Having, Becoming and Being Autistic-Trans - The Imaginary Relation between Ontological Theories and Practices of Flourishing |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Irem Guven (Leiden) | Sense as Movement: Nature Beyond the In-itself and For-itself |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Martin Plot (California Institute of The Arts) | Opposition and Truth, Opposition and Freedom: Merleau-Ponty and Hyperdialectics |
Programme day 2, 28th May in PJ Veth 0.06
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Farhan Idris (VUB) | Marxist Heresy and Creation: Subjectivity Without Evental Metaphyics in Post-Autonomism |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Ella Lazar (Leiden) | Dialectics and Différance - A Dialogue Between Merleau-Ponty’s and Derrida’s Appropriations of Marx(ism) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Paulina Guzman (Leiden) | Toward a Political Aesthetics in Merleau-Ponty: An Ontology of Expression and the Other |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Yonas Belay Abebe (Leiden) | Dissensus’ and Thinking with Rancière: On the Tension Between Ideology and Thought in Cinema as Philosophy |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Natalia Rome (Universidad de Buenos Aires) | On The Imaginary: Althusser beyond Althusser |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Bryan Smyth (Mississippi) | Bensaïd between Althusser and Merleau-Ponty |
All are welcome!