Seminar cercetare DFT „Recent Historiography of the Former Soviet Bloc: The View from Social Ontology”

„Already in the late 1980s, historians of the Soviet Union found Cold War analytical concepts of total control, repressive institutions, cynical indoctrination or mass mobilization more of a hindrance to their accounts of related socio-cultural phenomena. The sudden collapse of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe 35 years ago brought their analytic questions about the framework introduced by Friedrich’s and Brzezinski’s work close to the core of the social sciences for the whole region’s recent past. With massive amounts of archival materials open for interpretation, many historians of the former Soviet bloc have decried what they perceive as politically biased accounts of the region’s societies. But what captivates historians such as Fulbrook, or Kocka (on the former GDR), Connelly (in comparative historiography of the Soviet bloc) or David-Fox (on the former Soviet Union) can be summarized as questions with a distinct philosophical ring, such as these: Where lie the explanatory limits of totalitarianist analyses of people’s lives in the Soviet bloc? Which social-theoretical frameworks offer more promising starting points, and for what kind of empirical findings? I appeal to a more abstract description, in social ontology, of norms for collective action and/or institutions in order to defend the standpoints of their preferred accounts and preserve some of the earlier insights of the totalitarianism paradigm.„
Comunicarea acestuia este parte dintr-un ciclu de conferințe asociat programului masteral „Filosofie și gândire critică„. Aceste evenimente sunt deschise studenților în filosofie, psihologie, antropologie, științe politice, jurnalism, sociologie, lingvistică, digital humanities, științele comunicării, și multe altele – oriunde gândirea critică ne permite o apreciere reflexivă, atentă la temeiuri pro și contra, a temelor dezbătute public. Detaliile programului sunt disponibile aici: https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/
Prezentarea se va desfășura vineri, 4 aprilie 2025, orele 12.00-14.00, în sala „Lucian Blaga” de la etajul 1 al Facultății de Filosofie din Splaiul Independenței nr. 204, București 060024.