Talks (after selection) by Gabriele Schimmenti
Die ontologischen Voraussetzungen und das Problem des Wertes in dem Roman Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins Milan Kunderas
A Hegelian Logical Interpretation of Marx’s Dissertation
32nd International Hegel Congress, Tampere, Finnland, 5-8 June 2018 (special section on Hegel and Marx), 2018
Bruno Bauer e il (dis)seppellimento dell’arte. Riflessioni sulla tesi del “dissolvimento della religione nell’arte”
Ischia International Festival of Philosophy, 3rd edition, Ischia (Italy), 23 September – 01 October 2017, 2017
In the Beginning was the Art. Marginalia on the Aesthetics of Marx's Theory of Fetishism
In this contribution, I aim at challenging some central aspects of Marx’s concept of fetishism, w... more In this contribution, I aim at challenging some central aspects of Marx’s concept of fetishism, which has usually been interpreted by stressing its connections with religious alienation (religious reading = RR). My thesis is that it is worth conceiving Marx’s theory of fetishism from an aesthetic perspective, which should be considered complementary to the first (aesthetic reading = AR). I will discuss my proposal following 2 steps. In the first I thoroughly deal with the value-form (Wertform) in the first chapter of the first volume of Capital. I will try to show the theoretical advantage we could obtain adopting the AR I’m proposing. It consists in considering the concept of fetishism not only as an epistemological critique, id est as a critique of the beliefs or cognitions of social actors, but also as an ontological critique of the actions of those actors and, hence, of the reality they constitute in their praxis. In the second step of my talk, I will try to show some biographical and theoretical elements surrounding the young Marx that in my opinion allow us to look at the concept of fetishism from an aesthetic perspective by investigating the aesthetic prelude of Marx’s reflection on fetishism. Therefore, I will analyze the context and some of the journal articles Marx wrote in 1842 and 1843 while he was studying the text of Charles De Brosses on fetishism, from which he borrowed, as it were, that concept.
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Talks (after selection) by Gabriele Schimmenti