Philosophy conference: Thinking about "great transformations

Organized by the Langages, Littératures, Sociétés Etudes Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) of the USMB and the Association des professeurs de philosophie de l'enseignement public, the cycle of philosophical conferences "What work in a finite world?" continues this Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 5pm with the theme : Thinking about "major transformations". This lecture will take place in room 3, at theuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), in Chambéry. It is open to all, no registration required.

Great transformations are foreseeable in our time, and great transformations are desirable too, so that the former become less threatening. Polanyi, in The Great Transformationcan help us to think about our times, structured anew by the language of the economy, worked anew by the need to hear further.

This conference will be led by Michel Haudry, economics and social sciences teacher at Lycée Louis Armand in Chambéry.

About the "What work in a finite world?" cycle

We only became aware of the ravages of unlimited human transformation of nature and the world when this world threatened to become uninhabitable. But is it the transformation of the world in general that is in question, or is it an economic model that subjects everything to commodification, while allowing the logic of domination to persist? To put it plainly: aren't people expelling themselves from the world by failing to challenge these models? We've started to get scared, and for good reason. However, understanding why and how we've come to this point is essential if we are to influence a course of events that is not inevitable. Discussing this issue would reveal its political dimension as well as its social stakes.

LEARN MORE

• Program for the 2023-2024 philosophy lecture series
• LLSETI laboratory website
• Contact: Pascal Bouvier, member of the LLSETI laboratory and organizer of this conference series