Lea Ypi

Re-Visions
6-7.30pm | Wednesday 11 November 2010
Room J116 (Cañada Blanch Room), Cowdray House, European Institute, LSE

Speaker
Lea Ypi, Post-Doctoal Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

By exploring the analogies between Marx’s philosophy of history and the Enlightenment idea of historical progress (in particular the thought of Kant), the first talk aims to shed light on the Marxist conception of teleology and to explore the normative relevant of the idea of class-based historical agency.