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Joe McCarney

A Memorial Conference

The tragic death of Joe McCarney is to be marked by a conference in his memory on 25 October 2008 organised by the Marx and Philosophy Society. Joe wrote three books: The Real World of Ideology (1980); Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (1990), and Hegel on History (2000). All three relate in various ways to the problem of grounding an emancipatory project on an immanent historical dialectic rather than on a normative critique of the present based on an abstract standard.

Speakers:

Kai Nielsen 'Emancipatory Social Science: McCarney and Levine'

David MacGregor 'The Problem of Evil'

John Clegg 'A Brief History of False Consciousness'

Andrew Chitty: 'Can there be an Ethical Critique of capitalism?'

Chris Arthur 'The Concept of Critique'

There is no registration charge but space is limited, so please book in advance by sending an email to arthurcj@waitrose.com.

Directions and map: http://tinyurl.com/ywmsvc

Tube stations: Holborn and Russell Square.

The texts of Joe's first two books have been published on his website at http://www.josephmccarney.com to serve as a resource for the conference.

Conference poster