Today! "Marx and Philosophy"

London event at Marx Memorial Library

Marx and Philosophy

Date and Time: Thursday 29th May from 6pm-8pm
Venue: Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Grn, London, EC1R 0DU
Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thephilosopher/1695349
Overview: In a 2005 poll carried out by the BBC Radio show “In Our Time”, Karl Marx was voted the greatest philosopher of all time, winning more than double the number of votes of the second place thinker (David Hume). Marx would likely have been bemused – and perhaps even somewhat exasperated – by this, given the recurring aspersions he cast on philosophy and philosophers throughout much of his life. Yet Marx’s relation to philosophy is by no means straightforward, as the speakers in this event will demonstrate. While Marx struggled against it (most emphatically in his earlier writings), denouncing its distortions, parochialism, and impotence, philosophy remained a crucial reference point for him throughout his life, even long after he had apparently left it behind. Philosophy, too, has not been left untouched by this encounter, having irretrievably lost something of its naivety and self-satisfaction as a result of Marx’s famous claim that rather than merely interpreting the world (as philosophers have done), the point is to change it.

Speakers:
Christoph Schuringa
Tatiana Llaguno
Svenja Bromberg
Roberto Mozzachiodi
Andrés Saenz de Sicilia

Doors: 5.30pm
Event: 6pm-8pm
Pub: 8pm onwards