[Moderngreek-l] CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS SYMPOSIUM

[Vrasidas Karalis]

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES
November 29th, 2019 THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building
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.
10.00-10.30
ARRIVAL REGISTRATION
CANESSA
AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building
10-30-11.15
Professor Peter Murphy
Friendship and the Socratic Daimonion ("divine something"): Agnes Heller, Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and others. A recollection of the 1980s.

11.15-11.30
BREAK
Coffee/tea
11.30-13.00
Professor John Rundell

'Celebrating Imagination: elective affinities between Agnes Heller and Cornelius Castoriadis'

13.00-14.00
LUNCH

14.00-14.45
Tristan Bradshaw
Castoriadis, Aristotle, and the Prospect of Democratic Philia
14.45-15.30
Danica Jenkis
A Modern Ithaca: Autonomy and the Wisdom of Open-endedness in Angelopoulos'
Ulysses' Gaze
15.30-16.15
Vras Karalis
The romance of a friendship: Agis Stinas and Cornelius Castoriadis

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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