Return(s) to Marx ?

Return(s) to Marx?


Two days of discussion at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and Tate
Modern, organised in collaboration with Verso and the Forum  for European
Philosophy. 

       Is Karl Marx just an archaic nineteenth-century radical, or is his
critique of the dynamic instability of capitalism still powerfully relevant
to economics, politics,philosophy and culture today?  In recent years, a new
and serious engagement with Marx's analysis has reemerged from France, led
particularly by philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou, but
extended also by intellectuals and writers such as Daniel Bensaïd, Dominique
Lecourt and Miguel Abensour. Return(s) to Marx? considers the current status
of Marx¹s ideas both in France and Britain.

31 May | Institut français

2.00 - 3.30pm Round table 1: Marx's return and the media

Peter Osborne (Radical Philosophy)

Eustache Kouvélakis (Actuel Marx)

Esther Leslie (Militant Aesthetix)

Sebastian Budgen (Verso)

Moderator: Yann Perreau



3.30 - 4.30pm Tea and coffee



4.30 - 6.00pm Round table 2: Marx's return and academic

research, from publications to translations

Anne Beech (Pluto) 

Gregory Elliott (translator)

Jean Khalfa (Routledge)

Hugues Jallon (Maspero - La Découverte)

Chris Rojek (Sage) 

Moderator: Yann Perreau



7.00 - 8.30pm Keynote Talk: Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou is emerging as one of the most radical and influential
philosophers of our time. Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Paris
VIII and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he is also an intellectual
strongly involved in politics.



1 June | Tate Modern | Starr Auditorium



10.30 - 11.00am Tea/coffee and registration

11.00am - 1.00pm 
Marxism in French Intellectual Life  since the 1960s

Dominique Lecourt (author of THE MEDIOCRACY: FRENCH PHILOSOPHY SINCE THE
1970s)

Alain Badiou (author of ETHICS and MANIFESTO FOR PHILOSOPHY)

Moderator: Peter Hallward

1.00 - 2.00pm Lunch break



2.00 - 4.00pm 
Philosophical Marxism in France/ Cultural Marxism in Britain

Miguel Abensour (author of DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE STATE: MARX AND THE
MACHIAVELLIAN MOMENT)

Jean-Jacques Lecercle (author of THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE)

Esther Leslie (author of WALTER BENJAMIN: OVERPOWERING CONFORMISM)

Moderator: Sebastian Budgen



4.00 - 4.30pm Tea and Coffee



4.30 - 6.30pm 
Returns to Marx Today?

Daniel Bensaïd (author of A MARX FOR OUR TIMES)

Alex Callinicos (author of MAKING HISTORY)

Eustache Kouvélakis (author of PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: FROM KANT TO MARX)

Moderator: Gregory Elliott

6.30 - 7.30pm Wine reception

Organisational committee:

Catherine Audard, Sebastien Budgen, Yann Perreau, Dominic Willsdon



For more information

Institut Français :

17 Queensberry Place , South Kensington London SW7 2DT

www.institut-francais.org.uk

Free entrance 

Contact: Yann Perreau

T: 020 7073 1318 

bdl@ambafrance.org.uk



Tate Modern : 

Bank Side London SE1 9TJ

www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/events.htm

Tickets £15 (£10 concessions), call Tate Ticketing on 020 7887 8888.


            
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