Friday June 7, 2019, 9:45-18:00
Clattern Lecture Theatre (PRMB0012)
Kingston University, Penrhyn Road Campus
For Germany, the critique of religion has been essentially completed, and the critique of religion is the prerequisite of all critique.
Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” (1843)
This edition of the CRMEP Graduate Conference solicits reflection on two series of questions. Firstly, what was the ‘critique of religion’, in nineteenth-century Europe, and why did it become the axis and fundamental experience of several generations of European philosophers? Given that ‘religion’ itself was a recent invention (and a philosophical construction), what were the stakes of the sudden refraction of long-standing social and spiritual conflicts through its lens? What can we do with these stakes, working today with discourses to which these ‘critiques of religion’ have been tributary?
Secondly, given that irreligious philosophies have crystallized in so many other contexts in the last two millennia, within and beyond Europe, is there any coherence in this larger collection? What borrowings, inversions, and false repetitions traverse it? And, if we cease to identify critique, Europe and modernity, what position does the ‘critique of religion’ occupy within this broader history?
Please register (free) so that we can gauge attendance for coffee and tea breaks.
9:45. Opening Keynote
Problematizing religion: truth, authority, difference
Étienne Balibar
11:00 Panel
Nancy’s critique of the (eternal) return of religion
Marie Chabbert
World-loss and its religion: the death of God between Hegel and Hellenism
Austin Gross
After the end of a (certain) world: apocalyptic prophecy as a political critique in Maimonides’s The Guide for the Perplexed
Jakub Kowalewski
12:30-13:15. Lunch
13:15 Panel
Opicinus de Canistris and the deterritorialization of political theology in the early 14th century
Michał Pospiszyl
The “noble lie” of the poets: unbelief and critique of religion in Ancient Athens
Ramón Soneira Martínez
The materialist Turkish Ottoman authors of the end of the 19th century and the critique of religion
Ayşe Yuva
15:00 Panel
What does the critique of religion mean during the Vormärz? The case of Marx and the Young Hegelians
Pauline Clochec
A Cartesian Plot
Julia Wilam
Heidegger’s Early Christianity: genealogy, critique, and the place of politics
Mimi Howard
16:30-17:00. Coffee
17:00. Closing keynote
Intellect, imagination and the role of philosophy: exploring the interpretation of religion in classical Arabic philosophy
Olga Lucia Lizzini
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