Deakin University's HDR Philosophy Seminar Series invites current Australian graduate students to present their work for feedback\, discussion\, and engagement. We aim to foster a supportive space so that the seminar is thoughtful and constructive for all involved. We look forward to seeing you there!
\nDetails: \;Experiencing Estrangement
\nAbstract: Contemporary treatments of alienation and estrangement assume a direct symmetry between alienation and humanism\, either through maintaining the logic of Althusser&rsquo\;s break or utilising it as a recovery of some unified human essence. This conclusion is in discordance with alienation&rsquo\;s broad conceptual history\, with its primary inheritors posed as Marx and Heidegger. In this paper\, I want to show the fallibility of this logic with Marx and Heidegger&rsquo\;s fundamental breaks with traditional metaphysics\, which in turn force reconsiderations of alienation on these grounds. Working from Heidegger&rsquo\;s own discussion of Marx in his infamous &lsquo\;Letter on Humanism&rsquo\;\, through Derrida and Axelos&rsquo\; positionings of Marx and Heidegger\, this paper will sketch a reconceptualization of alienation as a properly historical concept irreducible to a fixed human essence.
\nBio: Lucy Myers is a candidate in the Master of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University\, where her thesis is on the concept of alienation in the history of Western philosophy. \;
\nZoom Link:
\nhttps://deakin.zoom.us/j/81514948590?pwd=dxLPSIP3zQ2D0texqlHfYbzJEACDu5.1
\nMeeting ID: 815 1494 8590 // \;Password: 14043504
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