Call for Papers: Dissidents as figures of truth (since the 1970s)

Date: 15.-16. July 2021 Format: Online conference  International conference organised by the research initiative (East) European Epistemologies: Studies in the Reflexive Pluralisation of the World in the 20th Century (Friedrich Cain, Dietlind Hüchtker, Bernhard Kleeberg, Karin Reichenbach and Jan Surman) In cooperation with– Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna – Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO, Leipzig – Research Group “Praxeologies of Truth”/University of Erfurt – Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences What do Andrei Sakharov, Noam Chomsky, a 19th century sect of German Catholics, and today’s mask opponents have in common? Read more

Shlomo Avineri, “Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution”

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx’s life through his intellectual contributions to modern thoughtKarl Marx (1818–1883)—philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor—was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. Read more
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