Within and Against Modernity: Spinoza on Imagination and Revolution

Friday, May 4

10:00–10:15—Opening Remarks (Omri Boehm)

10:30–12:00—"The Politics of Imagination: Spinoza and the Origins of Critical Theory" (Thomas Hippler)

12:15–1:45—"Genius or Prophet: Kant's Critique of Judgment vs. Spinoza's TTP" (Omri Boehm)

3:15–4:45—"Spinoza and the Revolutionary Laws of Human Nature" (Hasana Sharp)

5:00–6:30—"Juris Communia as anima imperii: The Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza" (Filippo del Lucchese) 

Saturday, May 5

10:30–12:00—"The Siren Song of Revolution: Spinoza on the Art of Political Change" (Michael Rosenthal)

12:15–1:45—TBA (Toni Negri)

3:15–4:45—"Democracy, Imagination, and Revolution: Marx, Reader of Spinoza" (Vittorio Morfino)

5:00–6:30—"Spinoza, History, and its Secularization" (Yirmiyahu Yovel)