What does the word materialism mean today? International Symposium on Alain Badiou, Materialism, and Dialectics

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Název v původním jazyce

What does the word materialism mean today? International Symposium on Alain Badiou, Materialism, and Dialectics

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The last century has seen an extraordinary efflorescence of materialist thinking. Materialism has become the dominant opinion of our times; the debates trying to answer the question what is to be done are now framed within the materialism itself. Alain Badiou, in the preface to Logics of Worlds, opposed materialist dialectics to contemporary doxa of democratic materialism. According to Badiou, democratic materialism is a doctrine sustaining limitations of parliamentary democracies; it is a conviction according to which only bodies and languages exist. Democratic materialism is closely related to biopolitics, to embeddedness of human beings within their environment, to deposition of every language that would pretend to overcome particularity. Postmodernity as such inscribes itself within the regime of democratic materialism. Badiou proposes materialist dialectics as an antithesis of this democratic materialism. Materialist dialectics is a conviction that does not negate the existence of bodies and languages, but adds to them third term: truths. For Badiou, truths are the necessary immaterial and dialectical element of any true materialism of the 21st century. In order to be truly materialist today, one needs to revisit the immaterial element of the materialism itself, its dialectical core. Or as Frank Ruda points out, it is necessary to dialectically reverse the materialism itself, to define materialism as idealism without idealism. What is then a truly materialist position for the 21st century? And what does the signifier 'materialism' mean today? How can be dialectical thinking embodied within different domains of human activity, within architecture, art, or politics? It may be precisely the new understanding of dialectics that could enable us to overcome limitations of the postmodernism.

Název v anglickém jazyce

What does the word materialism mean today? International Symposium on Alain Badiou, Materialism, and Dialectics

Popis výsledku anglicky

The last century has seen an extraordinary efflorescence of materialist thinking. Materialism has become the dominant opinion of our times; the debates trying to answer the question what is to be done are now framed within the materialism itself. Alain Badiou, in the preface to Logics of Worlds, opposed materialist dialectics to contemporary doxa of democratic materialism. According to Badiou, democratic materialism is a doctrine sustaining limitations of parliamentary democracies; it is a conviction according to which only bodies and languages exist. Democratic materialism is closely related to biopolitics, to embeddedness of human beings within their environment, to deposition of every language that would pretend to overcome particularity. Postmodernity as such inscribes itself within the regime of democratic materialism. Badiou proposes materialist dialectics as an antithesis of this democratic materialism. Materialist dialectics is a conviction that does not negate the existence of bodies and languages, but adds to them third term: truths. For Badiou, truths are the necessary immaterial and dialectical element of any true materialism of the 21st century. In order to be truly materialist today, one needs to revisit the immaterial element of the materialism itself, its dialectical core. Or as Frank Ruda points out, it is necessary to dialectically reverse the materialism itself, to define materialism as idealism without idealism. What is then a truly materialist position for the 21st century? And what does the signifier 'materialism' mean today? How can be dialectical thinking embodied within different domains of human activity, within architecture, art, or politics? It may be precisely the new understanding of dialectics that could enable us to overcome limitations of the postmodernism.

Druh

M - Uspořádání konference

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

Prague

Stát konání akce

CZ - Česká republika

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

8

Počet zahraničních účastníků

5

Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

WRD - Celosvětová akce