What is Alienation?; the Analytic-Continental Divide

An Essay by Akeel Bilgrami and an event with Tzuchien Tho and Peter Wolfendale

Dear all,

With the new series already underway, here is the slightly overdue poster. We will aim to get the full listings and registration details onto our events page within a couple of weeks of each event:

Your Sunday Read
“What is Alienation?” by Akeel Bilgrami. Most thinkers who have written on alienation (e.g., Rousseau, Marx, Sartre) seem to agree that it is a malaise of the modern period. In this essay, Akeel Bilgrami, a distinguished professor of philosophy at Columbia University, looks to Karl Marx, John Locke, Gerard Winstanley (founder of the Diggers), and others to try and trace the rise of modern alienation. In so doing, he aims to uncover something about the contrasting underlying mentality that exemplifies the ideal of an unalienated life. You can read his essay here.

Monday Event: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“The Weirding of the Analytic-Continental Divide”: Tzuchien Tho and Peter Wolfendale in conversation with Anthony Morgan

These days no one seems to believe in the legitimacy of the analytic-continental divide. Just as “spaghetti and meatballs” or “chop suey” do not exist in Italy and China but only as American creations, so the very idea of “continental philosophy” only originates in the Anglophone world. But what does the emerging post-divide philosophical landscape look like?

In this event, Tzuchien Tho and Peter Wolfendale – two philosophers who are just as comfortable on either side of this putative divide – will discuss the history of the divide, the emergence of philosophers like Robert Brandom whose work translates the methodologies of “continental” thinkers to mainstream analytic terms, the rise of philosophy of science as the progressive edge of philosophical research within the Anglosphere, the future of the divide, and much more. You can find out more and register here.

You can read Tzuchien Tho’s recent essay, “Analytic vs Continental Philosophy: The Weirding of the Divide”, here.

Recording of last week’s event
For those of you who missed the opening event of the series on “Arguing for a Better World” featuring Arianne Shahvisi and Andrés Saenz de Sicilia, you can watch the recording here.

Ending
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Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, wherever you are.

Anthony Morgan
Editor