Karl Marx, Alive or Dead? A Philosophical Investigation

Date/Time

14/04/2018 (Saturday)

2.00 - 5.00 pm

Location
The Adelaide





A Saturday School with John Clarke

This talk will focus, not on the later Marx of Das Kapital, but on his early philosophical writings, influenced by Kant, Hegelian Idealism, and Romanticism. These writings, many of which were only rediscovered long after his death, were a powerful protest against humanity’s sense of alienation and the loss of inner as well as external freedom, and against the systemic dehumanisation of the working conditions of his time. The talk will also speculate about the relevance of these writings to our own time where the question of our humanity and its future is once again a spectre haunting us.