Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Adorno's Beethoven: Undoing Hegel from Within
"My talk will discuss the undoing of organic form in Beethoven as it is interpreted by Adorno, who reads this shift in opposiiton to Hegel’s idea of a dialectic in which the subject realizes itself by gradually splitting and then recovering itself in a temporal movement that eventually achieves totality. Already in Beethoven’s middle phase, however, Adorno sees a disintegrating moment, especially in the “extensive type” that extends time beyond the subject’s capacity to synthesize, which then is fully realized in the “late style,” where the weight of objective moments turns organic form into a landscape of ruins." (Sven-Olov Wallenstein)
Slavoj Žižek: The Spirit of Distrust
"We should turn around the motto of Brandom’s liberal reading of Hegel, the “spirit of trust”: the deepest feature of the Hegelian approach is a spirit of distrust. His axiom is not that, no matter how terrible an event is, at the end it will turn out to be a subordinated moment that contributes to the overall harmony; his axiom is that no matter how well planned and meant an idea or a project is, it will somehow turn wrong." (Slavoj Žižek)
Moderated by Bara Kolenc
*In English.
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The "Hegel's 250th Anniversary: Too late?" International Philosophical Conference highlights the topic of lateness. With Hegel, we can think the relation between the beginning and the end that is crucial for the present time. Here, the question is not of this or that end (of history, grand narratives, ideology, art, philosophy) but rather of the radical end and our relationship to it, that is, our too-lateness. Today, as the world increasingly more obviously and unstoppably slides towards its ultimate end, and as it seems that, in relation to the pandemic speed of reality, thought is increasingly falling behind, the question arises: What now? Is it actually too late?
Let us say, however, that the 250th anniversary of Hegel´s birth marks the time of a beginning and the time of an end not because it is an anniversary, but because, with Hegel, we can think the relation between the beginning and the end that is crucial for the present time. Here, the question is not of this or that end (of history, grand narratives, ideology, art, philosophy) but rather of the radical end and our relationship to it, that is, our too-lateness. Today, as the world increasingly more obviously and unstoppably slides towards its ultimate end, and as it seems that, in relation to the pandemic speed of reality, thought is increasingly falling behind, the question arises: What now? Is it actually too late?
Organizing committee: Ana Jovanović, Bara Kolenc, Urban Šrimpf, Goran Vranešević
Organizers: Goethe-Institut Ljubljana, Aufhebung - International Hegelian Association, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Co-organizers: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; ZRC SAZU, AZIL Bookstore, Slovenian Book Agency, Student Philosophical Society, Razpotja magazine, Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Austrian Cultural Forum
LIVE STREAM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWPGCSrSA_g
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