Thursday the 21st of September, we will host Hegelian-Marxist philosopher Paul Cobben, whom you might know from works like Value in Capitalist Society and the new Marx Bevrijd (Marx Liberated). Then, Marxist thinker Samo Tomšič, author of The Capitalist Unconscious and The Labor of Enjoyment, will present new work on the "antisociality of capitalism.” Afterwards, we will be having some free drinks and snacks in de Gele Kanarie. So come join us for an afternoon of Marxism.
- Date
- Thursday 21 Sep 2023, 14:00 - 17:30
- Type
- Symposium
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- M1-18
- Building
- Van der Goot Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
This is a double event with colleague and fellow traveler Sjoerd van Tuinen who will present his book The Dialectic of Ressentiment on September 20th. Desire + Capital will be there, as will Samo and Paul, among many other guests.
Bio
Prof. dr. Paul Cobben is emeritus professor philosophy at Tilburg University and University of Amsterdam. He has worked on Hegel and Marx especially throughout his career, and is the series editor of Critical Studies in German Idealism at Brill. His works include Postdialectische Zedelijkheid (1996, Postdialectic Ethical Life), The Paradigm of Recognition (2012), Value in Capitalist Society (2015) and the new Marx Bevrijd (2022, Marx Liberated).
Dr. Samo Tomšič obtained his Phd from the University of Ljubljana, and works on political philosophy, structuralism and poststructuralism, critical theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Capitalist Unconscious (2013) and The Labor of Enjoyment (2019). He has worked at the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht, was a fellow at the Institute for German Literature at Humboldt University Berlin, and currently teaches there at the Department of Cultural History and Theory.
- More information
This working group is part of the project “Articulations of Desire,” generously funded by the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship programme. As such, this working group benefits from the Commission’s gracious funding for infrastructural and event support.
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