Events

 Is there a market relation?

Speaker: Jesko Hennig

Abstract: Many people believe that parties to any market exchange must relate to one another in specific ways. I deny this: there is no “market relation”. After rejecting four proposed relations—egoism, non-tuism, “exclusion”, and mutual benefit—I offer an alternative concept of markets which, I hope, explains away the underlying intuitions. According to that concept, while there is no market relation, markets do rest on a certain form of conflict. I also discuss how that form of conflict might be a reason to criticize markets.

Speaker: Elle Striewski

Abstract: I am currently working on a paper in which I try to reconstruct how Habermas, throughout different stages of his work, thinks about solidarity. I am less interested in the explicit places in his work where he mentions the word (e.g. during his discussion of the Kohlberg-Gilligan debate or later in his reflections about Europe) nor will this be primarily about his co-signed statement about Gaza after October 7 (which has been the main interest of scholars writing about Habermas and solidarity in the last years). Rather, I look especially at earlier, perhaps more materialist texts from the 60s and 70s where Habermas critically engages e.g. with strategic questions about Marxist organising.