Konferenz
25 May 2023 – 26 May 2023
Filosofia e Marxismo nel giovane Lukács. 100 anni di »Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein«
Venue: Università di Padova
Organized by Mauro Farnesi Camellone, Giacomo Gambaro, Gaetano Rametta (alle Universitá di Padova), Falko Schmieder (ZfL)
A hundred years ago, two books were published which are considered the starting point of Western Marxism: Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness and Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy. The conference will rediscuss these texts with special attention to the following aspects:
- The history of Western Marxism, from both a philosophical and a political perspective and with regard to the history of 20th century philosophy and social sciences.
- The importance of History and Class Consciousness for the development of Lukács’ philosophical thought.
- The importance of Lukács and Korsch for Western Marxism and their potentials for a critical understanding of contemporary culture and society.
Program
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Palazzo Liviano – Sala Diano
Moderation: Gaetano Rametta (Università di Padova)
3.45 pm
- Opening
4.00 pm
- Rüdiger Dannemann (president of the International Georg-Lukács-Society): Georg Lukács’ Projekt eines Instituts für historischen Materialismus in 1919 und 1923
5.15 pm
- Mario Piccini (Università di Padova): Lukács e il diritto
- Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL): Lukács and the Dutch-German Communist Left (Korsch, Pannekoek, Rühle)
Friday, 26 May 2023
Palazzo del Capitanio – Sala delle Edicole
Moderation: Luca Basso (Università di Padova)
9.00 am
- Gaetano Rametta (Università di Padova): Modality and Actuality: Lukács and Hegel
- Bruno Karsenti (EHESS – Paris): Sociologia e totalizzazione, un problema politico. Lukács in discusione
11.15 am
- Mauro Farnesi Camellone (Università di Padova): Utopia and Class Consciousness. Lukács and Bloch
- Falko Schmieder (ZfL): Die Bedeutung und Neuaneignung des Marxschen Fetischbegriffs durch Lukács und Korsch für den Westlichen Marxismus
3.30 pm
- Konstantino Kavoulakos (Aristoteles-Universität Thessaloniki): Lukács’s theory of reification and its Neokantian background
4.45 pm
- Giacomo Gambaro (Università di Padova): Lukács e Gramsci tra filosofia e marxismo
- Giorgio Cesarale (Università di Venezia): Production, Reproduction, Crisis: Reinterpreting History and Class Consciousness Today
- General discussion and closure