As part of our research and lecturing trip by Amtrak to the Westcoast we will stop next at Salt Lake City and discuss our book project at the Department of Philosophy at the Univeristy of Utah. Find all the details and a link below.
Alexis Shotwell & Kilian JorgOctober 18, 2024
In-Person
2PM - 4PM, CTIHB 459
An Ecology of Moralizing
Abstract:
Why is "moralizing“ mostly regarded as a pejorative conversation ender today? How did this start? The term is often – especially from the left – seen as the purview of the pursed-lips privileged prude that are disregarding the material grounds and social complexities of capitalist life. To be moralizing is to be naive, preposterous and even apolitical. Thus, while most want to be ethical humans, few want to appear to be moralizing under any circumstances. In this presentation, we examine how we have gotten to this point and if moralizing is happening whether we want it or not. We ask if a rejection of moralizing as judgemental condemnation is perhaps in itself anoversimplification neoliberal philosophy thrives on. By reviewing radical sources of anarchist moralizing, we want to reformulate it as a situated, concrete form of custom- and community-building in a shared planetary situation of ongoing catastrophe. We argue that this kind of moralizing might be essential for the long breath that transformative politics require in today’s dire situation.
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