MARX AND RECOGNITION

A workshop at the School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW, Friday, August 23, 
2013.

Location: UNSW, Kensington Campus, John Goodsell Building, room 119

There is a recent revival of interest in the philosophy, philosophical 
anthropology and social theory of Karl Marx. Much of the new work in this area 
focuses on Hegel’s and the Left Hegelians’ influence on Marx’s thinking, and 
the Hegelian concept of ‘recognition’, widely discussed in contemporary social 
and political philosophy, is one of the perspectives from which Marx is being 
interpreted today. This workshop focuses on Marx, recognition, and closely 
related themes. The workshop starts with a presentation by Michael Quante, a 
leading German expert, and the next two presentations by Douglas Moggach and 
Jean-Philippe Deranty address aspects of Quante’s interpretation.

Program
10-10.45am     Michael Quante (University of Münster): ‘Marx and recognition: 
Outlines of interpretation’

10.45-12         Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa): ‘Recognition and the 
causality of freedom’

12.00-1.30pm Lunchbreak

1.30-2.45pm   Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University): ‘Recognition in 
Capital: A response to Michael Quante’

2.45-3.45pm   Mark Kelly (Monash University): 'On the use and abuse of Marx for 
normative purposes'

4.15-5.15pm   Karl Moll (Macquarie University): ‘Marx's Hegelian 
anti-philosophy’

5.15-6.15pm   Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW): ‘Genuine recognition between producers 
and consumers: What is it, and could it exist?’


Michael Quante spells out his interpretation in more detail in a Master Class 
‘Species Being and Alienation in the Early Marx’. See 
https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/species-being-and-alienation-in-the-early-marx-a-master-class-in-philosophy-by-michael-quante/.
 See also the special issue ‘Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Recognition’ in 
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, with contributions by Jean-Philippe Deranty, 
Michael Quante and others: http://link.springer.com/journal/10677/16/4/page/1. 
Douglas Moggach gives another talk in the UNSW Philosophy Seminar on 
‘Perfectionism – before and after Kant’, in August 14, 4pm (Morven Brown, room 
310).

Free admission, but for catering purposes please email Heikki Ikäheimo 
([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) by August 16 if you 
wish to attend, with ‘Attending Marx and Recognition’ in the email title line.

Organized by the ARC Discovery Project ‘The Social Ontology of Personhood – A 
Recognition-Theoretical Approach’.

Heikki Ikäheimo
Senior lecturer, Australian Research Fellow
School of Humanities and Languages/Philosophy
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052
Australia

Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Tel. 04-23131713
http://unsw.academia.edu/HeikkiIkaheimo/Papers
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