Alienation in History. Estrangement in Language

Tomorrow - October 24, 2025
Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Via della Pergola 60
Florence
Italy

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University of California, Riverside
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University of Lisbon
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Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Firenze

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Schedule:
22/10/2025 – Sala Comparetti, Biblioteca Umanistica (University Library), Piazza Brunelleschi 4

15.00

Andrea Mecacci (Florence) – Opening remarks

Mariana Teixeira (Lisbon) – Alienation, Exteriorization, and Reification: An Attempt at Untangling a Conceptual Labirynth in Lukács, Marx, and Hegel

 Jacques Lezra (California) – Alien values

 17.30

 Darko Suvin (Montreal/Lucca) – On Brecht, Estrangement, and Disalienation

23/10/2025 – Sala Pergola, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia (Department of Humanities), Via della Pergola 60


 09.00   Clara Ramas (Madrid) – «Inverted World»: Marx on Alienation and Erscheinungsformen

Saša Hrnjez (Florence) – Language as Externalization and Alienation in Hegel 

11.15

Joseph Grim Feinberg (Prague) – On the Structure of the Human Subject in Czech Reform Communism

 Jiří Růžička (Prague) – Tracing the Roots of Alienation. Insights from Czechoslovak Marxist Thought

15.00

 Siyaves Azeri (Cluj-Napoca) – Surplus-Meaning and Abstract Individuality

 Craig Brandist (Sheffield) – Semantic Palaeontology and the Language of Caste 

17.30

Makoto Katsumori (Akita) – Hiromatsu on Marx and the Problem of Reification

 Bo Wei (Beijing) – Labor in Commerce and the Formation of Social Relations: A Response to Hiromatsu’s Criticism of Alienation Theory

24/10/2025 – Sala Consiglio, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia (Department of Humanities), Via della Pergola 60

 09.00

Sikong Zhao (Shanghai) – The Alienation Aspect of the 1980s Debates on Humanism in Chinese Academia

 Sevgi Doğan (Pisa) – Reinterpreting Alienation and Fetishism: Rethinking the Kurdish Question through a “Familiar” Reading of Marx

 11.15

 Giovanni Morrone (Naples) – The Cultural-Philosophical Matrix: Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language

 Eleonora Piromalli (Rome) – Objective Alienation and the Naturalization of Inequality: Reflections on Rousseau’s Second Discourse

 15.00

 Roberto Morani (Florence) – Marxism Without Hegel and Without Alienation: The Italian Case / Un marxismo senza Hegel e senza alienazione. Il caso italiano

Juliette Farjat (Paris) – The Concept of Alienated Language in Marx and in Marxism / Le concept de langage aliéné chez Marx et dans le marxisme

The event is organized within LANGEST project CUP: B83C22006370007

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