[MGSA-L] Harvard's Seminar on Cultural Politics: Globalization and Hegel’s Theory of the Emergence of Subjectivity, Dec. 5, 6:00pm

Roilos, Panagiotis roilos at fas.harvard.edu
Fri Nov 24 09:30:01 PST 2017


Dear all,


I would like to invite you to the following event.


Sincerely,

Panagiotis Roilos

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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

Jon Stewart, Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

"Globalization and Hegel’s Theory of the Emergence of Subjectivity"
Abstract:

Globalization has in a sense made the world smaller by bringing different cultures into contact with one another. This has often led to misunderstanding and even conflict since this contact obliges people to confront the differences between the values of their culture and those of others. One of the major fault lines of these misunderstandings concerns the nature and role of the individual. In traditional cultures the focus tends to be more on the group, with the person being primarily conceived not as an individual but as a part of a larger whole, e.g., the family, clan, tribe, etc. By contrast, in the West, the focus is often more on the individual as such, devoid of any relations to others. The German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel presents a sweeping theory of history that explains this difference in focus between traditional and modern cultures. Although often criticized for ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism, his theory can provide some insight into the cultural conflicts in our globalized world of the 21st century.



Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies  and Professor of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
Member of the Governing Board, European Cultural Center of Delphi
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