International Conference
22 Apr 2021

Selbsttransformierendes Leben? Lukács und die Kritik des Kapitalismus, a.o. with Patrick Eiden-Offe and Eva Geulen

Venue: online via Zoom

International online conference organized by the Chair of Practical Philosophy with a focus on Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law and the research centre Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, a.o. with a lecture by Patrick Eiden-Offe and a commentary by Eva Geulen

To attend the Zoom event, please register via lukacs.frankfurt2021@gmail.com.

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The literary scholar Eva Geulen is the Director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, and Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

The germanist Patrick Eiden-Offe is research associate at the ZfL with the project Georg Lukács: An Intellectual Biography.

Program

13.00–13.15
Introduction

13.15–13.45
Csaba Olay (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest): Lukács’ Early Conception of Reification in the Light of Recent Interpretations

13.45–14.15
Timothy Bewes (Brown University): Notes for a Hypothetical Theory of the Novel

14.15–14.30
Eva Geulen (ZfL/HU Berlin): Commentary

14.30–15.00
Discussion

15.00–15.30
Break

15.30–16.00
Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL/University of Illinois Chicago): Revolution as a Way of Life: On the Experiment of Writing Lukács’ Life

16.00–16.30
Arthur Bueno (Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.): The Experience of the Crisis: Reification and Emancipation as Life-Processes

16.30–17.00
Discussion

17.00–17.30
Break

17.30–18.00
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London): Life, Tragedy & Justice

18.00–18.30
Konstantinos Kavoulakos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): Georg Lukács’ Early Critique of Everyday Life and his Theory of Reification

18.30–19.00
Discussion