Lecture by Allegra De Laurentiis: Commercialization of Everything or Freedom of Commerce?

Faculty Fellows lecture by Allegra De Laurentiis/PHI, "Commercialization of Everything or Freedom of Commerce? Two Historical Views on Civil Society". Laurentiis will present an excerpt from her book which centers on the philosophical antecedents of Marx’s understanding of justice, of civil society, and of its economic underpinning. This lecture will focus on two such predecessors’ views of civil society: J.J. Rousseau and G.W.F. Hegel. Their divergent outlooks may shed a helpful light on current debates about justice and social inclusion.
Allegra de Laurentiis is Professor of Philosophy at SBU. She specializes in German nineteenth-century philosophy and its relation to classical Greek thought. Between 2013 and 2020 she has edited and co-edited three volumes on her specialty. She has authored Subjects in the Ancient and Modern World (2005) and Hegel’s Anthropology. Life, Psyche and Second Nature (2021). She is currently working on the monograph Ethical Implications of Political Economies.
Recorded November 16, 2021