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february, 2020

22feb12:00 pm2:00 pmEvent CancelledTRANSFORMATIONS OF THE AMERICAN LEFT from 1900 to the Present With Stanley Aronowitz

22feb3:00 pm5:00 pmLeft-Legalism and the Antinomies of Resistance: From the Jewish Question to the Mueller Report

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In the face of the ongoing rightward shift in politics, much
of the resistance that has arisen on the nominal left has focused on formal and
legalistic efforts. From the impeachment of Donald Trump to the attempts to outlaw
hate speech and establish housing and healthcare as ‘rights’, the efforts to
overcome the current political impasse imagine existing political institutions
and norms as capable of providing a solution to the very same political
realities that characterize them. This class will review Marxist legal and
political theories with a focus on better understanding the limitations and
antinomies of current efforts to resist the right through the language and
institutions of law. Does left-legalism function to strengthen the very
institutions and norms that constitute the capitalist state? What forms of
resistance would be necessary for breaking the existing political hegemony and
creating the possibility of a democratic society? Readings will include Louis
Althusser, Wendy Brown, Karl Marx, Antonio Negri, Evgeny Pashukanis and
Jean-Paul Sartre.

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(Saturday) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Law offices of Lewis, Clifton and Nicolaidis

350 West 31st Street, Suite 404

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Left-Legalism and the Antinomies of Resistance

26feb6:30 pm8:30 pmDialectical Thought in the Modern Period: Paths of Inquiry with Arto Artinian

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Much has been said about “dialectics” in the context of leftist thinking about politics, yet often the conversation is often vague on the specifics of what is it that dialectics in thinking actually means? What is gained by deploying “dialectical thought”? To counter this tendency, we will trace specific articulations of dialectical movement in thought, with the aim of gaining a clearer understanding of the fundamental concepts, ideas and methods that relate to this mode of thinking.

Our focus is on building a grounding in thinking about everyday life that seeks (rather than avoids) contradictions, and is capable of surviving (as Hegel said) the tensions that arise within it.

Readings will begin with a discussion of sections from Hegel’s studies of logic and specifically, his development of the syllogism. We will then proceed to a discussion of Hegel’s logic and its transformation by Marx in Volume 2 of “Capital”, via a close reading of David L. Harvey’s seminal essay “The Logic of Commodity Circuits”. Throughout the course, we will also integrate Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov’s fundamental investigations of dialectical logic. The goal is to unlock a sensitivity towards dialectical thought, as well as approaches to writing and thinking systematically in this tradition.

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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

James Baldwin High School Rm 317

351 W 18th St New York, NY 10011 United States

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27feb6:30 pm8:30 pmHegel and After: Reason, Revolution and Regression with Michael Pelias

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This six week lecture and interactive seminar will engage in a reading of the sections in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit on Reason, Spirit and Religion in the light of contemporary struggles as the world historical spirit unfolds. In particular, we will try to trace the “cunning of Reason” from the age of Revolution to the reactionary spirit of the middle 19th century through the tendencies of State reason to the reason and rights to rebellion. Poetic challenges to the Hegelian system by Rimbaud and Mallarme as well as the materialist inversion and overturning of the “idealist” system by Marx and Engels. The question of Subjectivity and dialectical reason will consistently be emphasized in the course and in this context a very careful reading of the “Ethical Order” wiil be encountered with the necessary correlations to Antigone.

Time

(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

James Baldwin High School Rm 317

351 W 18th St New York, NY 10011 United States

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All six sessions of Hegel and After: Reason, Revolution and Regression

Price $75.00

Hegel and After: Reason, Revolution and Regression

29feb12:00 pm2:00 pmEvent CancelledTRANSFORMATIONS OF THE AMERICAN LEFT from 1900 to the Present With Stanley Aronowitz

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Transformations of the American Left with Stanley Aronowitz — Seminar Canceled

February 5, 2020

Dear Friends:Unfortunately, Stanley Aronowitz has been hospitalized at NYU Langone for treatment of infection and some pneumonia. He is in stable condition but very weak. We...

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Transformations of the American Left with Stanley Aronowitz — February 1st, Seminar Postponed Until Next Week

February 1, 2020

Dear Friends: Unfortunately, we are postponing Stanley's class until next Saturday, February 8th at Noon. Thank you for your understanding, and our apologies for any...

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Marxist Summer School

January 22, 2020

The Institute for the Radical Imagination is pleased to announce the creation of the Marxist Summer School to be held in Kasos, Greece.

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Winter 2020 Seminar Descriptions and Dates:

January 10, 2020

Center for Critical Thought (CCT) and INSTITUTE FOR THE RADICAL IMAGINATION (IRI) : WINTER 2020 SEMINARS

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Winter 2020 Seminars!

January 10, 2020

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November 22, 2019

If you're a IRI fellow traveler, please subscribe to our youTube channel so we can reach 1000 subscribers. That way we can bring you even...

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Slavoj Žižek: For A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name – October 8, 2019

October 18, 2019

FOR A LEFT THAT DARES TO SPEAK ITS NAME: Slavoj Žižek with Peter Bratsis and Jeremy Glick "With irrepressible humour Slavoj Žižek dissects our current...

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Updates to our Fall 2019 Seminar Schedule

October 1, 2019

For those of you who will attend German Idealism and its Aftermath: Philosophical and Poetic Reactions with Michael Pelias, please be aware, due to Jewish...

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Fall 2019 Seminars

September 14, 2019

Center for Critical Thought (CCT) and INSTITUTE FOR THE RADICAL IMAGINATION (IRI) : FALL 2019 SEMINARS

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Fall 2019 Critical Thought Seminars begin Saturday, October 5th

September 4, 2019

The Institute for the Radical Imagination will begin Fall Seminars on Saturday, October 5th. Fall 2019 classes/seminars: *Class descriptions, reading list and online registration forthcoming. Mondays,...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – June 1, 2019

May 31, 2019

What Does It Mean to Be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz: Will be held at Stanley’s residence, 244 Madison Ave. #10-A at Noon-2 p.m.Reading is Now by The Invisible...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – May 25th, 2019:

May 23, 2019

What Does It Mean to Be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz:Will be held at Stanley's residence, 244 Madison Ave. #10-A at Noon-2 p.m.Reading is Now by The Invisible...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – May 4th, 2019:

May 1, 2019

What Does It Mean to Be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz:Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness – What is Orthodox Marxism? Freud and Philosophy: Overcoming the Self and its aporias with Michael...

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Critical Thought Seminars postponed this weekend – April 20, 2019

April 18, 2019

Due to Passover and Easter weekend for many, we are postponing classes this Saturday until the following Saturday, the 27th. Readings For IRI...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – April 20th, 2019

April 10, 2019

What does it Mean to be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz: Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future – Chapter 5, "The Shape of Practice." Georg...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – April 6th, 2019

April 1, 2019

What does it Mean to be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz: Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future – Chapter 2: On Left Political Organization: From...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – March 30, 2019

March 27, 2019

What does it Mean to be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz: Manifesto of the Communist Party in its entirety – all four parts. Freud...

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Readings for Saturday Critical Thought Seminars – March 23, 2019

March 19, 2019

What does it Mean to be Left? with Stanley Aronowitz: Manifesto of the Communist Party Freud and Philosophy: Overcoming the Self and its aporias with...

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The Marx, Marxism and Philosophy Today — Saturday, March 2nd at 2 p.m. at Long Island University, Brooklyn

February 28, 2019

We will meet again on March 2nd at 2 p.m. for the definite finale on Negri and some thoughts on the status of Marxism today. We will...

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Marx, Marxism and Philosophy Today will meet this Saturday, January 19th at 2 p.m. at Long Island University Brooklyn

January 17, 2019

Marx, Marxism and Philosophy Today will meet this Saturday, January 19th at 2 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn, Health Sciences Bldg. , room 224 . The...

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Marx, Marxism and Philosophy, Today — Dec. 8th, 2018

December 8, 2018

We will meet this Saturday at 2 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn, Health Sciences Bldg., Room 224. Michael Pelias will introduce and engage Della Volpe and...

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Spring 2017 Pelias Seminar — All Sessions

$100.00

For attendance at all sessions of the spring 2017 seminar, The Speculative Caesura: Four Philosophical Tendencies since May 1968, with Michael Pelias.

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