Lecture Information

Lecture Title

Lecture 32: Re-reading Marx

Speaker

Tabata Minoru

Special Guest Translator

Li Yini

Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and Environmental Science, Kyoto University

Date and Time

Monday, May 27, 2024

14:00-15:30

Location

Room 2415, Teaching Building #2

Organizers

School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China

Research Center for the Development of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Renmin University of China

Speaker Biography

Tabata Minoru, a renowned Japanese Marxist philosopher, is a professor at Osaka University of Economics, founder of the Osaka Materialism Research Association, and editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Materialism Research. His main research areas are Marxist philosophy and German classical philosophy. Since 1980, he has been actively promoting the “Re-reading Marx” movement, focusing on the concept of “association” to deeply explore the transformative power in Marx’s writings, which has had a significant impact in Japan. His major works include Marx and Association: An Attempt to Re-read Marx and Marx and Philosophy: Methods of Re-reading Marx.