[Usyd_Classics_Events] Critical Antiquities Workshop Aug-Dec 2022 #4 Jonny Thakkar

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Critical Antiquities,



Our next workshop in the series will be next week (please note the daylight savings time differences!)

[nb. the NY start time in the flyer is wrong: the following is correct. See below for times elsewhere]



SYDNEY:        Wednesday,   November 9, 10:00-11:30 (Sydney EDT)

NEW YORK:   Tuesday,        November 8, 18:00-19:30 (NYC)



Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore College)



“Aristotle and Moneymaking: The Roads Not Taken”



Abstract:

The primary goal of this paper is to consider the relationship between the critique of moneymaking that Aristotle develops in Book I of the Politics and the rest of his social and political theory. I argue that there are several places where Aristotle ought to have drawn out the consequences of the former for the latter, and that his failure to do so reveals something about the deep structure of his way of thinking about political life. In short, Aristotle’s account of economic life is constrained by his political ontology, according to which a polity consists in a particular arrangement and distribution of offices. But the stakes are not limited to the interpretation of Aristotle. First, moneymaking is now so integral to social and political life that it is salutary to recover the perspective of a great thinker for whom it appeared strange and foreign in important ways. Second, the paper demonstrates the abiding importance of political ontology—an understanding of what counts as a political structure, activity or phenomenon—for political science, whether empirical or normative.



Biography:

Jonny Thakkar is an assistant professor of Political Science as well as one of the founding editors of The Point. After receiving his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2013, he spent three years at Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and then one year at the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor. His first book, Plato as Critical Theorist, was published by Harvard University Press in Spring 2018.


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All very best, Ben and Tristan


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