Hegel, the Discovery of the Self and the “Sette Giugno” Riots (1919)
Presented by Mark Camilleri
Monday 8 February 2016, 18:00-19:30
Gateway Building (GW) Room 104 (Mikiel Anton Vassalli Conference Centre), University of Malta (number 7 on the campus map)
“Thus Liberalism as an abstraction, emanating from France, traversed the Roman World, but religious slavery held that world in the fetters of political servitude. For it is a false principle that the fetters which bind Right and Freedom can be broken without the emancipation of conscience – be a Revolution without a Reformation.”
- Hegel, “The Philosophy of History”, 453.
This is the fifth of a series of sessions that the Philosophy Postgraduate Reading Group (PPRG) in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy will organise throughout this academic year 2015/16. The session will be led by Mark Camilleri, a current M.Phil student in Philosophy.
This talk is a teaser of a book he is working on which will be released in the upcoming months. The book will be a revisionist critique of Maltese history with a particular chapter on the phenomenology of the Sette Giugno Riots. In this session, he will be trying to understand the historical events of the Sette Giugno Riots with a Hegelian and Marxist reading.
The suggested reading for this session is from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit - The Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness through its own Activity, pg 211 - 221.
The Philosophy Postgraduate Reading Group (PPRG) is intended for current and recent postgraduates, doctoral students and academics researching within or bordering the field of philosophy. The aim is to have a speaker lead a session, presenting one's research or work in progress. The speaker can also propose a text (10-20 pages) written by a thinker s/he is familiar with or has written a dissertation about, which the group will then analyse and debate. Prior to the meeting, participants are expected to read any sources provided. Undergrads are encouraged to attend.
Rather than sticking to one philosophical perspective, this reading group enables a fruitful and stimulating engagement with a vast array of conceptual tools, enriching the analysis of issues which have dominated the history of thought and which are still of great relevance to the present.
Anyone interested in moderating a session or in helping out in the coordination of the reading group or has any suggestions, feel free to get in touch.