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<b><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white; color: black;">The Labour of the Negative</span></b></p>
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<b><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white; color: black;">4<sup class="x_ContentPasted0">th</sup> Biannual Conference of the Australian Hegel Society</span></b></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white; color: black;">The Fourth Biannual Conference of The Australian Hegel Society, ‘The Labour of the Negative’, hosted by UNSW Sydney, will take place on November
30<sup class="x_ContentPasted0">th</sup> - December 1<sup class="x_ContentPasted0">st</sup>, 2023, in person in Sydney Australia and online via zoom.
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</span></b><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white; color: black;">George di Giovanni (McGill) & Alenka Zupančič (Ljubljana, Paris VIII)</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif">At crucial junctures in his writings, Hegel makes use of the theme of labour to articulate the thrust, movement, and nature of his philosophical project. Famously the
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology of Spirit </i>is a highway of despair that “immediate spirit must laboriously travel down” if it wants to become ‘genuine knowing’. And labour is no less essential to Hegel’s conception of truth for which this labourious
path prepares us: the grasping of truth as not only substance but also as subject. As Hegel writes, a proper grasp of this idea [<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Idee</i>],
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">must </i>involve “the seriousness, the suffering, the patience, and the labour of the negative”. Labour and its logic are at the heart of Hegel’s
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology</i>. It is thus not surprising that the
<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="background: white; color: black;">young Marx would later claim that “the outstanding achievement of Hegel’s
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology</i> and of its final outcome, the dialectic of negativity as the moving and generating principle, is that he thus grasps the essence of work”. Marx’s intuition would guide Alexandre Kojève to foreground the thematic
of work in his influential lectures on the <i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology
</i>which would determine so much 20<sup class="x_ContentPasted0">th</sup> century French reception of Hegel.</span></span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif">Yet one need not confine oneself to the
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology </i>if one wants to think through the connection between Hegel and labour. Hegel had been extensively engaging with the nature of labour in both his
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">System of Ethical Life </i>(1802) and in his notes preparing to lecture on his
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Philosophy of Spirit</i> (summer semester 1803; winter semester 1803–1804, and winter semester 1805-1806), i.e., before he penned those famous lines in the
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology</i>. This engagement was further preceded by a youthful encounter with the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish political economy which dealt extensively with such questions. The relationship between
Hegel and labour is far from reducible to the use of labour as a metaphor for a philosopher in his comfy nightcap.
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif">But what of negativity and
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">its </i>specific work? Hegel was, after all, the thinker of negativity par excellence and his work has been essential to philosopher and non-philosophers alike. In the century following his death, the work of the negative in Hegel
and Hegel’s works on negativity became essential to the projects of existentialists, psychoanalysts, and theologians alike. One could not imagine Jacque Lacan’s
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Seminar</i>, for instance, without his engagement with Hegel’s
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Phenomenology</i> and the thoughts on the work of the negative contained therein. It is not without consequence that Lacan attended Kojeve’s lectures or that Jean Hyppolite was invited to present a commentary on Freud's
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Die Verneinung </i>(Negation) in Lacan’s seminar. </span>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif">This year’s conference of the Australian Hegel Society (AHS) invites scholars working on Hegel and the post-Hegelian tradition to rise to the challenge of thinking through
the significance of the “labour of the negative”. What work does the concept of labour do in Hegel’s philosophy? How might Hegel’s detailed engagement with political economy shed light on Hegel’s endeavours? Why did Hegel’s earliest biographers so emphatically
insist upon the slow and methodical labour which undergirded the slow construction of his mature philosophy? To what extent does Hegel’s philosophy shed light on the contemporary nature of work? How has Hegel’s work been taken up to inform discussions of negation
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif">Papers are welcome that address the conference theme.
<i class="x_ContentPasted0"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dJjBCGv0oyCBg1VzwsKm3Gp?domain=australianhegelsociety.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.australianhegelsociety.com/" data-loopstyle="linkonly" id="OWAacef9b4a-4cab-0166-5a8c-92e9e0c4932e" class="x_OWAAutoLink">The Australian
Hegel Society</a></i> welcomes submissions also from early career researchers and advanced graduate students. To notify your interest in presenting at the conference, please send an abstract of your paper to the following address, by
<b class="x_ContentPasted0">September 1</b>: <a href="mailto:theaustralianhegelsociety@gmail.com" id="OWA8555eee4-b4f9-15d1-c51e-1a31e92c8c15" class="x_OWAAutoLink x_ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="linkonly">theaustralianhegelsociety@gmail.com</a><br class="x_ContentPasted0">
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