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Left-Kantianism Workshop

  • 03 Jul 2024
  • 04 Jul 2024
  • Cardiff University
Location Hotel: Premier Inn Cardiff Bay, located at Bute Place, GB, CF10 4AA. 
Workshop location: Law/Politics Building 1.29, Park Place, Cardiff University.
3rd of July 2024
11 am - 11-30 am       Welcome & Introduction by Pro Vice Chancellor Damian Walford Davies
Coffee/tea        Left-Kantianism: introduction of programme.
Left-Kantianism in the late-18th century: From Kant and his contemporaries to Marx
11.30 am - 12.30 pm  Huw Williams (Cardiff): ‘Richard Price and his Contemporaneous Left-Kantianism’
                                    Chair/respondent: James Wakefield (Cardiff)
12.40 pm – 1.35          Lunch at Hoffi Coffi (2 Colum Rd, Cardiff CF10 3EG)
1.45 pm - 2.45 pm      Howard Williams (Cardiff): ‘From Kant’s Doctrine of Right to Marx’s Capital: Kant and Marx on property theory’
                                    Chair/respondent: Andrew Chitty and Peter Sutch
Left-Kantianism in the late 19th /early 20th century: Neo-Kantianism
3 pm – 4 pm                Garrath Williams (Lancaster): ‘Kantianism as a Method: Hermann Cohen and the Form of Capitalism’
                                    Chair/respondent: Elisabeth Widmer (LSE)
4.15 pm - 5.15 pm      Andrew Vincent (Cardiff): ‘Cassirer, Neo-Kantianism and Politics’
                                    Chair/respondent: Garrath Williams (Lancaster)
5.30 pm - 6.30 pm      Elisabeth Widmer (LSE): ‘The State as a Critical Idea: Max Adler’s Left-Kantian Socialism’
                                    Chair/respondent: Andrew Vincent (Cardiff)
7 pm                            Dinner at Calabrisella Cathays (51 Cathays Terrace)
4th of July 2024

9.30 am                       Coffee/tea
Left-Kantianism in the 20th century: ‘Classical’ Critical Theory
9.45 am - 10.45 am     Katherina Kinzel (Utrecht University): ‘Abstraction, Dualism, Kantianism. Georg Lukács on the Categorial Form of Capitalism’
                                    Chair/respondent: David Boucher (Cardiff)
11 am -12 pm              Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Essex): ‘Enlightening: Adorno’s and Kant’s contrasting answers to the question ‘How to write about the enlightenment?’
                                    Chair/respondent: Katherina Kinzel (Utrecht)
12.10 pm- 12.50 pm   Lunch at Hoffi Coffi (2 Colum Rd, Cardiff CF10 3EG)
Left-Kantianism in the 20th century: Newer approaches in critical theory
1 pm – 2 pm                Steven Smith (Yale): ‘Lucien Goldmann’s Kantian Marxism’
                                    Chair/respondent: Daniel Williams (Swansea)
14.15 pm -15.15 pm   Oliver Eberl (University of Marburg): ‘Republic and the social superego: Ingeborg Maus’ interpretation of Kant's political philosophy as a radical theory of democracy’
                                    Chair/respondent: Howard Williams (Cardiff)
15.30 pm -16.30 pm   Closing discussion: Special issue in Kantian Review
18.30 pm                     Conference Dinner at Côte Cardiff Bay 
(25 Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5BZ)

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