[Moderngreek-l] REMINDER: CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY 29TH 2019, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

[Vrasidas Karalis]

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES

November 29th, 2019

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building

Convener: Vrasidas Karalis

Entrance Free All Welcome.



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.



Sponsored by the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies

School of Languages and Cultures

The University of Sydney



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10.00-10.30

ARRIVAL

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 Jenkins

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



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