Hegel from the Margins

 

International Workshop

Hegel from the Margins

4 June 2025

Room C134.A

School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon

Event organized as part of the activities of Praxis-CFUL

 

 

Hegel’s work has inspired both conservative and revolutionary interpretations, with scholars divided on whether his framework upholds the status quo or allows for social transformation. His statements on women and non-European peoples, as well as his identification of the “real” with the “rational,” suggest a resistance to change. Yet, his dialectical method has also fueled emancipatory thought, as seen since the historical division between Left and Right Hegelians. Recent Hegelian scholarship increasingly engages with issues of domination, but debate persists over whether Hegel’s philosophy is inherently sexist, racist, and conservative or if it contains an underlying critical potential. This workshop seeks to reexamine Hegel’s philosophy from the standpoint of the margins —of gender, race, and class— and to explore its dual legacy to contemporary social and political thought.

 

Program 

 

10.00 – 10.15	Opening address
10.15 – 12.15	Session I: Hegel from the Margins of ‘Race’ Agustin Prestifilippo (Buenos Aires): Propertization, Labor, Slave Trade: The Cunning of Recognition at the Thresholds of History Mariana Teixeira (Lisbon): Three ways of dealing with Hegel’s racism: conversion, inversion, and subversion
12.15 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 16.00	Session II: Hegel from the Margins of Class Giovanni Zanotti (Coimbra): ‘Even so’: Adorno’s account of the materialist dialectic Bernardo Ferro (Coimbra): Capital as ‘Bad Infinity’: On the Hegelian Ancestry of a Key Marxian Theme
16.00 – 16.15	Coffee Break
16.15 –  18.15	Session III: Hegel from the Margins of Gender Ana Miranda Mora (Utrecht): Hegel on the right to divorce and the possibility of marriage dissolution Silvia Locatelli (Lisbon): Genus, Genus Process, Family: Hegel and Sexual Difference in the System
19.00	Workshop Dinner

​Free attendance and open to the public

 

Organization: Mariana Teixeira (Praxis-CFUL)

 

This event is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the project UIDB/00310, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.