Conference: The Legacy of Alfred Sohn-Rethel
The Legacy of Alfred Sohn-Rethel
An International Conference, May 13-14, 2021
Register to attend on zoom. Find information online. Direct any questions to chicago.sohn.rethel@gmail.com.
Day One: Thursday, May 13
The Social Origins of Conceptual Form: Sohn-Rethel and Philosophy
10:00-10:15 CST
Opening Statements
- Daniel Burnfin and Noah Zeldin – conference organizers, University of Chicago
10:15-11:00 CST
“Introduction to the Philosophical Thought of Sohn-Rethel: A Materialist Sociology of Knowledge?”
- Oliver Schlaudt – Substitute Professor of Epistemology, University College Freiburg; Adjunct Professor, SciencePo Paris (Campus Nancy); co-editor of Sohn-Rethel’s collected works (Schriften, ça ira)
11:00-11:45 CST
“Transcendental Materialism: Kant, Marx, Sohn-Rethel”
- Jake McNulty – Bersoff Faculty Fellow, Department of Philosophy, New York University
11:45-12:15 CST
Break
12:15-1:00 CST
“‘Who baptized Marx, Kant or Hegel?’ A Reply to Sohn-Rethel”
- Mladen Dolar – Professor and Senior Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor of Philosophy, European Graduate School; author of A Voice and Nothing More (2006)
1:00-1:30
General Discussion
Day Two: Friday, May 14
Another Kind of “Critical Theory”: Sohn-Rethel and Economics
10:00-10:15 CST
Opening Statements
- Daniel Burnfin and Noah Zeldin
10:15-11:00 CST
“Introduction to the Economic Thought of Sohn-Rethel: Fascism, Keynesianism and Management”
- Oliver Schlaudt
11:00-11:45 CST
“Value Form and Abstract Labor in Marx: A Critical Review of Sohn-Rethel’s Notion of ‘Real Abstraction’”
- John Milios – Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought, National Technical University of Athens; author of The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System (2019)
11:45-12:15 CST
Break
12:15-1:00 CST
“‘They don’t know it, but they do it.’ Commodity Fetishism and Real Abstraction”
- Michael Heinrich – Former Professor of Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin; author of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society (2019)
1:00-1:30
General Discussion
All times in Central Standard Time US [CST]: Central European Time [CET] + 7 Hours; Eastern European Time [EET] + 8 Hours.