[MaFLA] Theories, Foundations, and Problems of Social Criticism - Budapest Workshop in Continental Philosophy

[Andrea Timár]

Kedves Kollégák!
Szeretném felhívni a figyelmüket az alábbi workshopra Joseph Tanke<https://ias.ceu.edu/people/joseph-tanke> szervezésében:

Theories, Foundations, and Problems of Social Criticism - Budapest Workshop in Continental Philosophy
https://events.ceu.edu/2026-03-20/theories-foundations-and-problems-social-criticism-budapest-workshop-continental

Friday, March 20, 2026, 9:30 am – 6:30 pm (CEU, IAS, Nádor u. 15.)

This workshop assembles scholars working on some of the major currents in  Continental philosophy in order to examine the conceptual foundations, historical transformations, and contemporary challenges of social criticism. From Kant’s critical philosophy to Foucault’s re-articulation of the Enlightenment project in terms of a historically situated practice of critique focused on the role that power/knowledge plays in the process of subject formation, this workshop seeks not only to affirm the centrality of social criticism to the field of Continental philosophy but to ask what that tradition demands of us now. Our problem will engage classical phenomenology, structuralist and post-structuralist forms of interpretation, deconstructive displacements of conceptual stability, as well as feminist philosophies of difference and postcolonial critiques of universalism. Attention will be paid to the role of critique within literary theory, aesthetics, and cultural criticism, where questions of ideology and interpretation intersect with broader social and political concerns. By foregrounding questions of interpretation, standpoint, and historicity we seek not only to question the supposed neutrality of criticism but to better understand the relationship between critique and daily life. In this respect, our workshop will test what it means to engage in practices of philosophically inspired forms of critique that interpret and disturb the world.
Program:
9:40 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Joseph Tanke
10:00 Marie-Eve Morin, “Jean-Luc Nancy’s Flat Ontology: A Thinking of Being for Our Times?”
11:00 Zsolt Bagi, “Emancipation as Affective Empowerment: A Spinozian Approach to Social  Theory and Social Activism”
12:00-12:40 Break
12:40-1:40 Péter Csato, “Metalepsis, Truth-Telling, and the Ethics of Interpretation”
1:40-2:40 Andrea Timár, “Art, Politics and the Social: Reading Brecht with Arendt and Rancière
2:40-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Joseph Tanke, “AI as a Problem for Social Philosophy”
4:00-5:00 Csaba Olay, “Regional Identity and the Narrativity of National Identity”
5:00-5:10 Break
5:10-6:10 Gábor Boros, “After Ego”
6:10-6:30 Closing Remarks, Balázs Trencsényi, Director, Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

Üdvözlettel:
Timár Andrea
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Forthcoming:
Timár, Andrea. Reading with Hannah Arendt. Literature, Criticism, Theory. (London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2026.)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-with-hannah-arendt-9781350560154/

First:
Timár, Andrea. A Modern Coleridge. Cultivation, Addiction, Habits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; paperback: 2017)
Nominated for the First Book Prize of the British Association for Romantic Studies
https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137531452#reviews

Andrea Timár (PhD. Habil.) egyetemi docens / Associate Professor
Director of Modern English and American Literature and Culture Doctoral Programme
English Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
https://des.elte.hu/en/timar?m=6471
https://elte.academia.edu/AndreaTimar


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Feladó: MaFLa <mafla-bounces at listbox.elte.hu>, meghatalmazó: Takacs Adam <takacsadam at hotmail.com>
Elküldve: 2026. március 16., hétfő 8:58
Címzett: mafla at listbox.elte.hu <mafla at phil.elte.hu>
Tárgy: [MaFLA] Marie-Eve Morin előadása a Filozófiai Kollégiumban

Kedves kollégák!

Szeretném a figyelmükbe ajánlani Prof. Marie-Eve Morin (University of Alberta) előadását a Filozófiai Kollégiumban e hét csütörtökön.

Jean-Luc Nancy and the Phenomenology - Proximity and Distance
Március 19., 17 óra.
ELTE BTK (Múzeum krt. 6-8), A épület 112-es terem.

Az előadás dekonstrukció, testfilozófia és fenomenológia kapcsolódási pontjait járja körül Jean-Luc Nancy Heideggerhez és Merleau-Ponty-hoz fűződő viszonyának elemzésével.

Marie-Eve Morin, kanadai filozófus, a kortárs kontinentális gondolkodás kiemelkedő képviselője, a University of Alberta professzora és dékánhelyettese. Kutatásainak centrumában Jean-Luc Nancy filozófiája, Merleau-Ponty fenomenológiája és az új realista irányzatok kritikája áll. Főbb művei: Jean-Luc Nancy  (Polity Press, 2012), Continental Realism and Its Discontents (ed.), (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being at the Limits of Phenomenology (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

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Üdvözlettel:
Takács Ádám
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