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 1. CfA Irreligion and the Critique of Religion - Graduate Conference

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Date:    Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:16:22 +0000
From:    Austin Gross <austing@PROTECTED>
Subject: CfA Irreligion and the Critique of Religion - Graduate Conference

*Call for Abstracts: Irreligion and the Critique of ReligionExtended
Deadline: 31 March 2019*
       “For Germany, the critique of religion has been
       essentially completed, and the critique of religion
       is the prerequisite of all critique.”
             – Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of
             Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction”

This edition of the CRMEP Graduate Conference solicits reflection on
two series of questions. Firstly, what was the ‘critique of religion’,
in nineteenth-century Europe, and why did it become the axis and
fundamental experience of several generations of European
philosophers? Given that ‘religion’ itself was a recent invention (and
a philosophical construction), what were the stakes of the sudden
refraction of long-standing social and spiritual conflicts through its
lens? What can we do with these stakes, working today with discourses
to which these ‘critiques of religion’ have been tributary?
   Secondly, given that irreligious philosophies have crystallized in
so many other contexts in the last two millennia, within and beyond
Europe, is there any coherence in this larger collection? What
borrowings, inversions, and false repetitions traverse it? And, if we
cease to identify critique, Europe and modernity, what position does
the ‘critique of religion’ occupy within this broader history?
   The conference will take place at the Centre for Research in
Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London on
*Friday June 7, 2019*. Two keynotes will speak to this year’s problematic:

   ‣ *Étienne Balibar *(CRMEP, Kingston University London and
Université Paris Nanterre), author of
*Saeculum. Culture, religion, idéologie* (2012) and *Citizen Subject*
(2011, English translation 2016).
His recent work deals with the question of critique, with special
reference to religion and political economy, racism and nationalism.
   ‣ *Olga Lucia Lizzini *(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), author of
numerous studies in Islamic philosophy, angelology and political
theology, including
*Fluxus (fayd). Investigation of the foundations of Avicenna's Metaphysics
and Physics *(2012). For *Angeli*, eds. Agamben
and Coccia (2009), she contributed, with Samuela Pagani, the section
on Islamic angelology. Last year, she wrote an introduction to
Avicenna's (or pseudo-Avicenna's) Epistle on Prophecies.

We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers from doctoral students
and early career researchers that problematize the philosophical
critique of ‘religion’, or that take up philosophical irreligion more
broadly, and that do so from a standpoint that may be sensitive,
polemical, or ambivalent. Possible topics include:

   ‣ Ibn al-Rāwandī’s and Al-Rāzī’s critiques of prophecy, animated
by their conviction in the supremacy of thought over the imagination
   ‣ Feuerbach's critique of religion as idealism, animated by his
contestation of this very supremacy, and by his attempt to
rehabilitate sensuality and the imagination
   ‣ The atheism of Stirner, Bauer or Marx and the pantheism of Heine
   ‣ Benjamin’s frequent returns to the topos of ‘paganism’, inspired
by Hermann Cohen, in his discussions of the daimonic and in his draft
on capitalism as religion
   ‣ Zhang Taiyan’s critical writings, at the beginning of the 20th
century, on ‘religion’, zongjiao – a recent coinage that had only been
in use for around two decades at the time
   ‣ The continuities, inflections, and ruptures in the history of
the term ‘religion’, from Cudworth to the Encylopédistes, to Kant and
Hegel
   ‣ Freud’s writings on and against religion, spanning three
decades, from Totem and Taboo to The Future of an Illusion,
culminating in Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion, which
constitute a unified project and, to some extent, his life’s work
   ‣ Derrida’s ‘Two Sources of “Religion”’ and his notion of
‘mondolatinité’ as generalized Christianity

Abstracts of under 300 words should be sent to
conference.crmep.irreligion@PROTECTED by* 31 March 2019*.

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