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21.06.2018 - 22.06.2018 | Moscow
The October Revolution of 1917 proclaimed the rise of a new society based on the Marxist(-Leninist) philosophy. Dialectics, materialism, proletarianism etc. have since then dominated Soviet discussions in arts, scholarship, sciences etc. However, the epistemic questioning of the boundaries between science, ideology, politics – but also between science and arts, or between science and technology – could now immediately effect changes in legislation,education, or administration. Yet, Marxist epistemology still transgressed Soviet territories,since discussions of Marxism and its intellectual importance were carried out from Paris to Peking, from Almaty to Avenida Viena. After 1945, new geopolitical conditions gave power to certain Central European Marxisms. Clearly, both continuities, but also breaks occurred to the whole intellectual sphere on personal, social, epistemic etc. levels, influencing not only the Soviet Union but the whole globe.
Our conference concentrates on the political epistemologies of broadly understood intellectuals – in the first place scholars and scientists, but also artists or literati. Following Yehuda Elkana’s ideas on “anthropology of knowledge,” and Karl Mannheim’s description of epistemologies as “aspect structures,” we concentrate on the question how individual and collective epistemologies were structured by, and at the same structured political attitudes of intellectuals, scholars or scientists, but also artists and literati. Accepting the malleability and interchangeability of what we analytically describe as cultural, social, political etc., we want to inquire how these categories, with their key epistemic concepts, like truth, proof, experiment, but also critical intervention or autonomy, were framed and also how they informed the identity building of individuals and groups intending to represent them.
With a wide range of examples, from the sciences and the newly appearing projects of a “science of science”, through arts to a broader intellectual and academic sphere, we encourage interdisciplinary approaches. This should bring together aspects Marxism intended to amalgamate and which since the demise of Marxism grew apart. At the same time, looking at the ways Marxist epistemology was differently appropriated and contested, allows us to bring forward its specificity and the specificity of approaches adjacent or contesting.
The conference is a second event of a series of meetings on (Eastern) European Epistemologies. The first meeting, “Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe,” took place in Erfurt in November 2017, the third will be held in Erfurt in October 2018 (“A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s“).
Organized by Alexander Dmitriev, PhD (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics (IGITI HSE) Moskau), Dr. Jan Surman (IGITI HSE), Dr. Friedrich Cain (Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Universität Erfurt), Prof. Dr. Dietlind Hüchtker (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Abteilung "Kultur und Imagination")
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Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
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Termin:
21.06.2018 - 22.06.2018
Veranstaltungsort:
National Research University Higher School of
Economics
Myasnickaya 20
Moscow
Russische Föderation
Zielgruppe:
Wissenschaftler
E-Mail-Adresse:
Relevanz:
international
Sachgebiete:
Geschichte / Archäologie, Gesellschaft, Politik
Arten:
Konferenz / Symposion / (Jahres-)Tagung
Eintrag:
05.06.2018
Absender:
Virginie Michaels
Abteilung:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:
nein
Textsprache:
Englisch
URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event60713
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