[Usyd_Classics_Events] Inaugural Session of the Critical Antiquities Workshop

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends,

A reminder to any and all who may be interested in attending the inaugural session of the Critical Antiquities Workshop. Please find also attached the full schedule with abstracts and Zoom link details.

All very best, Ben


Critical Antiquities Workshop 2020

Department of Classics and Ancient History/CCANESA

Semester 2, 2020, Session 1:

Friday September 11th 12pm-1:30pm (Sydney AEST GMT+10)

Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University)

The Last of the Schoolmen: The Young Marx, Latin Culture, and the Doctoral Dissertation

Abstract:
This paper examines Marx’s earliest writings, especially his doctoral dissertation on the ‘Difference Between Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature’ and the notebooks he kept while preparing it, not in relation to his later writings, and not in relation to the history of Marxism, as has been the standard approach among commentators thus far, but in relation to the specific historical and discursive contexts in which they were produced. I argue that these documents suggest that Marx was less a part of what some commentators call a ‘Western Tradition’ that ostensibly stretches from the ancients to modernity, than he was of what I call ‘Latin culture’, or the Latin-speaking culture that persisted in Europe throughout medieval times and into the nineteenth century. When we examine Marx’s early writings in this context, I maintain, and in the context of debates occurring in Germany in the middle part of the nineteenth century, the practical social, political, and economic consequences of what otherwise appear to be abstract theological and metaphysical speculations become apparent. Through his writing, Marx always sought, not merely to interpret, but to change the world.

 https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/99370756814

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