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Conference Announcement Theme: Global Ethics and Capitalism Subtitle: Rethinking Critical Theory Type: 4th Workshop in Social and Political Thought Institution: Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University Location: East Lansing, MI (USA) Date: 4.–5.10.2013 __________________________________________________ This workshop will be a forum for addressing the provocative ways in which recent scholarship situates Critical Theory in contemporary analyses of Capitalism in relation to normative questions 'of a global scale.' In this sense, the workshop will discuss the status and relevance of a critique of Capitalism in its global form in contemporary Critical Theory. An important aspect of this discussion is the extent to which a normative analysis of Capitalism can be related to an analysis of the immanent tendencies of Capitalism. Participants will confront and examine recent shifts of Critical Theory away from a Marxian notion of the critique of political economy, and the viability of critiques of Capitalism in light of recent conceptions of economic crises and accelerating globalization. October, 4-5, 2013 Friday: 9am-6pm, Saturday: 9am-1pm Main Speakers (with brief commentators): Carol C. Gould (Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center) Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013; Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; Marx's Social Ontology: Individuality and Community in Marx's Theory of Social Reality, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 1978. Moishe Postone (University of Chicago) Critical Theory and the Twentieth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in preparation); Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Tony Smith (Iowa State University) Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Brill Press (2005); Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the "New Economy," State University of New York Press, 2000; Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism, State University of New York Press, 1993; The Role of Ethics in Social Theory: Essays from a Habermasian Perspective, State University of New York Press, 1991; The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms, State University of New York Press, 1990. Organization: Prof. Christian Lotz, Prof. Kyle Whyte, Prof. Todd Hedrick Michigan State University Department of Philosophy 503 South Kedzie Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Phone: +1 517 355.4490 Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
