[Moderngreek-l] CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES-ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

[Vrasidas Karalis]

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES
November 29th, 2019
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN GREEK AND BYZANTINE STUDIES
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building
CALL FOR PAPERS
AUTONOMY AND PHILIA (ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΙΑ)
IN CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS' LIFE AND THOUGHT
Drawing from Aristotle's suggestion that '...cities are held together by philia [friendship] and legislators should study it more than justice,' we want to explore philia as found in Cornelius Castoriadis' theoretical thinking and understanding of politics.
Since his youth Castoriadis established life-long friendships with many individuals whose life, ideas and practical engagement had a permanent presence in his own work.
The symposium wants to bring together the abstract and the concrete, the life of the philosopher with the social ontology of his theory.
During the one-day meeting, we would like to explore the concept of political or civic friendship especially within the overall Castoriadis project to restore democratic politics to the immediacy and radicalism of their origins in classical Athens.
After the recent death of the philosopher and friend Agnes Heller, papers are invited to address friendship as political virtue in contemporary anti-political societies.
Key-Note Address:
Professor John Rundell
The University of Melbourne
'Celebrating Imagination: elective affinities between Agnes Heller and Cornelius Castoriadis'
Deadline for submission of papers: October  4th, 2019
Entrance Free
All Welcome.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
School of Languages and Cultures
The University of Sydney

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