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Event: The Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism: G. Gava “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics” (University of Athens, online, 13 May)

Elisa Gremmo // May 9, 2024

We are very glad to announce the international conference The Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism.
The event will take place online (Webex) on May 13th (18:00), in which will be presented and discussed the book Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (OUP 2023), by Gabriele Gava (University of Turin). The discussion will focus on the first chapter of the book: “The Worldly Concept of Philosophy and the Possibility of Metaphysics as a Science”.

The conference is hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Athens, Greece. The Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism is organized by Prof. Ioannis Trisokkas (Athens), Dr. Sebastian Stein (Stuttgart), Dr. Stavros Panagiotou (Athens) and Kostas Morfis (PhD Candidate, Athens).

To receive the event link, please contact Prof. Ioannis Trisokkas (idtrisokkas@philosophy.uoa.gr).

For more information, please visit the official website.

Event: "The Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism" (University of Athens, online, 13 May)

New Release: Holger Gutschmidt, “Dieter Henrichs Theorie der Subjektivität. Analyse ihrer Entwicklung” (Meiner, 2024)

Barbara Santini // May 8, 2024

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Dieter Henrichs Theorie der Subjektivität. Analyse ihrer Entwicklung by Holger Gutschmidt (Meiner, 2024).

From the publisher’s website:

Dieter Henrich (1927–2022) war einer der einflussreichsten Philosophen der deutschen Nachkriegszeit. Im Zentrum seines umfangreichen Werks – selbst dort, wo es nicht ausdrücklich verhandelt wird – steht die Theorie des Selbstbewusstseins und der menschlichen Subjektivität.
Henrich hat in mehr als sechzig Jahren in einer Fülle von Texten an den damit verbundenen Fragen gearbeitet. Doch wegen der Komplexität und Vielfalt dieser Arbeiten sowie der Tatsache, dass Henrich kaum je einen Überblick über seine Theorie vorgelegt hat, sind vielen Lesern die Zusammenhänge bisher unklar geblieben. Dazu kommt, dass sich seine Theorie im Laufe der Zeit erheblich gewandelt hat.
Holger Gutschmidts Einführung in Henrichs Selbstbewusstseinstheorie(n) analysiert die Entwicklung von Henrichs Position von den Anfängen an. Sie behandelt wichtige Einflüsse auf Henrichs Lehre und geht auf zentrale Diskussionen seiner Thesen ein. Gutschmidt zeigt darüber hinaus auch die Grenzen und Schwierigkeiten von Henrichs verschiedenen Ansätzen. Trotz mancher Versuche, Henrichs Werk im Zusammenhang darzustellen und zu diskutieren, ist dies bisher nirgendwo so vollständig, konzise und transparent gelungen wie in dieser Einführung. Sie ist auch solchen Lesern zu empfehlen, die, obwohl an den Sachfragen interessiert, mit Henrichs Werk bisher keine große Berührung hatten.

The Table of Contents is available at this link.

New Release: Holger Gutschmidt, “Dieter Henrichs Theorie der Subjektivität. Analyse ihrer Entwicklung” (Meiner, 2024)

New Release: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, “Metafisica” (Bompiani, 2024)

Elisa Gremmo // May 6, 2024

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Metafisica, by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, edited by Gualtiero Lorini (Bompiani, 2024).

From the publisher’s website:

Rimasta per molti anni all’ombra della più notaAesthetica, che sancisce di fatto la nascita della disciplina filosofica omonima, la Metaphysica di A.G. Baumgarten rappresenta il trattato fondamentale, da cui non solo la sua riflessione estetica, ma anche quella logica e morale sorgono come gemme sui rami della pianta madre. Con quest’opera il suo autore si inscrive in modo del tutto originale nell’alveo dell’illuminismo tedesco, egemonizzato dalla figura di C. Wolff e dalla sua scuola e dal dibattito fra razionalismo e pietismo. Pur essendo senza dubbio interprete della tradizione illuminista, Baumgarten può tuttavia essere ricondotto solo in parte al wolffismo, soprattutto per quanto concerne temi centrali come, ad esempio, la dottrina della monadologia e quella dell’armonia prestabilita. Su questi argomenti egli si presenta piuttosto, e non senza qualche problema interpretativo, come un leibniziano di stretta osservanza e, in questo senso, la sua distanza da Wolff contribuisce indirettamente a ridimensionare l’immagine, a lungo diffusa, di un Wolff mero sistematizzatore delle teorie leibniziane. La Metaphysica gioca inoltre un ruolo centrale nello studio delle fonti kantiane, dato che proprio su questo trattato Kant ha condotto le lezioni di metafisica e di antropologia per la maggior parte della sua lunga carriera di docente presso l’Università Albertina di Königsberg. La presente traduzione risponde a un bisogno che negli studi italiani sul Settecento tedesco si è fatta vieppiù pressante negli ultimi anni, soprattutto dopo la pubblicazione di tre autorevoli traduzioni: in lingua tedesca, inglese e francese.

New Release: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, "Metafisica", (Bompiani, 2024)

Lezione: Temi e problemi della filosofia classica tedesca: Giulia La Rocca, “Essere umano e storia nel primo Herder” (Padova, 10 maggio 2024)

armando manchisi // May 6, 2024

Siamo lietə di comunicare che il 10 maggio 2024 si terrà il nono incontro del ciclo di lezioni di dottorato 2023/2024 “Temi e problemi della filosofia classica tedesca: Figure antropologiche nel pensiero classico tedesco”. L’incontro sarà introdotto da Giulia La Rocca (Univerza v Ljubljani/Università di Padova), che terrà un intervento dal titolo Essere umano e storia nel primo Herder.

La lezione, interna al Corso di Dottorato di Ricerca in Filosofia, si svolgerà a partire dalle ore 16:30 presso l’Aula Stafanini (Palazzo del Capitanio, Padova). Sarà possibile inoltre collegarsi da remoto tramite la piattaforma Zoom. Per partecipare allo streaming scrivere a: armando.manchisi@unipd.it.

Si riporta qui di seguito il calendario degli incontri:

1. Lunedì 27 novembre 2023
Incontro introduttivo
Orario: 16:30 – 18:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

2. Venerdì 15 dicembre 2023
Luca Corti, L’antropologia di Kant
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

3. Venerdì 22 dicembre 2023
Mario Marino, L’antropologia di Herder e la polemica con Kant sulla filosofia della storia
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

4. Venerdì 19 gennaio 2024
Luca Corti, Kant, Antropologia. Il carattere della specie
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

5. Martedì 30 gennaio 2024
Barbara Santini, Tra Natur e Geist: Hölderlin e la questione antropologica
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

6. Venerdì 23 febbraio 2024
Davide Puzzolo, Rivoluzione del cuore e comunità etica. Elementi antropologici all’interno della Religione entro i limiti della sola ragione
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

7. Venerdì 15 marzo 2024
Francesco Campana, Il concetto di essere umano nelle prospettive primo-romantiche
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

8. Venerdì 19 aprile 2024
Elisa Gremmo, Schelling e la natura come organismo
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

9. Venerdì 10 maggio 2024
Giulia La Rocca, Essere umano e storia nel primo Herder
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

10. Venerdì 24 maggio 2024
Orario: 16:30 – 19:00
Sede: Aula Stefanini, Palazzo Capitanio

International Conference: “Freedom of Research. Kant’s Streit der Fakultäten nowadays” (Padova, 21-22 May 2024)

hegelpd // May 5, 2024

We are very glad to announce the international conference Freiheit der Forschung. Kants Streit der Fakultäten heute / Freedom of Research. Kant’s Streit der Fakultäten nowadays.

The event will take place on May 21st-22nd at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio – Piazza Capitaniato 3) and on Zoom.

For both in-person and online attendance, please email kant300.unipd@gmail.com.

The conference is organized by Giulia Bernard, Barbara Santini, and Marzia Soavi, and is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology of the University of Padova.

Speakers will include Dietmar Heidemann (Université du Luxembourg), Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), Sofie Møller (Universität Köln), Burkhard Nonnenmacher (Universität Tübingen), Annette Sell (Universität Tübingen), Jens Timmermann (University of St Andrews).

Below you can find the program of the conference.

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May 21st, Sala delle Edicole

09:30 Welcome and Introduction

Session I – Chair: Barbara Santini

10:00-11:30 Burkhard Nonnenmacher (Universität Tübingen), Theologie und Philosophie in Kants „Streit der Fakultäten“ – Zur Frage der Aktualität einer Verhältnisbestimmung

11:45-13:15 Sofie Møller (Universität Köln), Humanity’s Progress in the Conflict of the Faculties

Session II – Chair: Luca Corti

15:30-17:00 Annette Sell (Universität Tübingen), Wie das Gemüt heilen kann. Der dritte Abschnitt von Kants Schrift „Der Streit der Fakultäten“

17:15-18:45 Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), Right to Science, Freedom of Research, and Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right

May 22nd, Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio

Session III – Chair: Gabriele Tomasi

9:00-10:30 Dietmar Heidemann (Université du Luxembourg), Freedom and Resentment in the Contest of the Faculties

10:45-12:15 Jens Timmermann (University of St Andrews), Was können wir heute von Kants „Streit der Fakultäten“ lernen?

12:30 Roundtable: Rethinking Der Streit der Fakultäten

13:30 Conclusion

International Conference: "Freiheit der Forschung. Kants Streit der Fakultäten heute" (Padova, 21-22 May 2024)

Lectures: Antonino Falduto (Padova, 10 May, 2024)

Mattia Megli // May 4, 2024

We are glad to give notice of two Lectures of Professor Antonino Falduto (University of Ferrara), which will take place on May 10th, 2024, at the University of Padova. The lectures are part of Professor Gabriele Tomasi‘s master’s and bachelor’s courses. Professors, students, and PhD students are welcome.

For further information, please email gabriele.tomasi@unipd.it.

Please find below the program of the lectures.

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Antonino Falduto, Sulla facoltà di sentire piacere e dispiacere: dalla seconda alla terza Critica
Friday 10 May, h. 12.30, Palazzo del Capitanio, Aula AIS2.

Antonino Falduto, Bello e buono: la prima ricezione della “Critica della capacità di giudizio”
Friday 10 May, h. 16.30, Palazzo del Capitanio, Aula Film.

Lessing Workshop: “Jacobi-Wörterbuch Online” (Online, 6 May 2024)

Giulia Bernard // May 1, 2024

We are glad to give notice of the presentation of the Jacobi-Wörterbuch Online at the Lessing Workshop. The event will take place on 6th May 2024 at 18:00 on Zoom.

Birgit Sandkaulen (University of Bochum), Stefan Schick (University of Leipzig), and Oliver Koch (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) will present the Jacobi-Wörterbuch Online. The session will be moderated by Jutta Heinz (Goethe-Wörterbuch, Tübingen). The discussion will be held in German and English.

To register, please visit this link.

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Having discussed current research on Lessing in the previous workshops, the upcoming session will focus on a project dedicated to an important contemporary: The Jacobi-Wörterbuch Online, which has been under construction since 2019, explores the thought of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) by means of his use of terms in the context of the philosophical and political debates of his time and on the textual basis of his philosophical and literary writings, his correspondence and his “Denkbücher”. On the basis of approx. 400 lemmas, both the internal networking of Jacobi’s work and its connection with earlier, contemporary and later approaches in the context of classical German philosophy are presented. In preparation for the workshop, we recommend reading the following articles:

„Aufklärung“ by Stefan Schick

„Natur“ by Oliver Koch

„Salto mortale“ and „Sein in allem Dasein“ by Birgit Sandkaulen

Lessing Workshop: "Jacobi-Wörterbuch Online" (Online, 6 May 2024)

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Laura Dequal // Apr 30, 2024

Julie Mehretu, Sing, Unburied, Sing (J. W.), Ink and acrylic on canvas, 274.3 x 304.8 cm

CfP: 35th International Hegel Congress of the Hegel Society: “The Idea of the Good and Ethical Life in Hegel’s Philosophy” (Tiblisi, 30 September – 4 October 2024)

Giulia Bernard // Apr 30, 2024

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 35th International Hegel Congress of the International Hegel Society, which will be held at the Georgian Technical University (Tiblisi, Faculty of Economic Engineering, Media Technologies and Social Sciences) on September 30th – October 4th, 2024. The topic of the congress is The Idea of the Good and Ethical Life in Hegel’s Philosophy.

The congress website is available at the following address, will be continuously updated, and will contain all relevant information: https://hegel-kongress.gtu.ge

If you would like to contribute a paper to one of the parallel sections, please submit an abstract of your paper by email to hegelcongress@gtu.ge. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by July 1, 2024.

Below you can find the list of the sections, the keynote speakers, and the terms for submission of abstracts.

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List of Sections:

1. Ethical Life and the Good: Dimensions in Hegel’s Logic, Philosophy of Religion, and Theory of the State

2. Ethical Life and the Good in Hegel`s Philosophy of Spirit and Philosophy of Nature

3. The Principle of Recognition as the Basis for the Realization of Freedom

4. Subject as Logical Concept: Implications for State and Society

5. Ethical Life and the Idea of the Good from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Right

6. War and the Principle of International Relations in Hegel`s “Philosophy of Right”;

7. The Reception of Hegel’s Philosophy in Georgia and outside Germany

8. Nature vs. Culture in the Context of the Idea of the Good

Keynote Speakers:

1. Prof. Andreas Arndt (Humboldt University of Berlin)

2. Prof. Stephan Gosepath (Free University of Berlin)

3. Prof. Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt)

4. Prof. Theo Kobusch (Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn)

5. Prof. Warren Montag (Occidental College)

6. Prof. Niklaus Largier (University of California, Berkeley)

7. Prof. Axel Honneth (Goethe University Frankfurt)

8. Prof. Violetta Waibel (University of Vienna)

9. Prof. Agnieszka Nogal (University of Warsaw)

10. Prof. Lasha Bregvadze (Tbilisi State University)

11. Prof. Francesca Iannelli (Roma Tre University)

12. Prof. Marie-Elise Zovko (University of Zagreb)

13. Prof. Birgit Sandkaulen (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Submission Guidelines

If you would like to contribute a paper to one of the parallel sections, please submit an abstract of your paper by email to hegelcongress@gtu.ge. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by July 1, 2024. Contributions should be no longer than 20 minutes and written in German, English, or French. The following information must be provided with the submission:

Author’s name
(Institutional) address
Email address
Paper title
A descriptive summary of the paper indicating its relevance to the topic of the congress (max. 500 words)
An indication of the section for which the paper is intended

Publication

A later publication of the papers in the Hegel-Jahrbuch is planned

Venue:

The congress will be held at the Georgian Technical University, in Tbilisi (Georgia). The address of the congress venue is Tbilisi, Kostava 77 Street

Contact

Academic director: N.N. Prof. Dr. Mamuka Beriashvili. E-mail: mamuka.beriashvili@gtu.ge

Congress Management: N.N. Dr. Mariam Khazaradze. E-mail: khazaradze.m@gtu.ge

Workshop: “Utopia in German Idealism” (London, 17 May 2024)

Giulia La Rocca // Apr 29, 2024

We are glad to give notice of the workshop Utopia in German Idealism, which will take place on May 17th, 2024, at the School of Advanced Study University of London (Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, 10:00AM – 8:15PM).

The workshop is organized by Gregor Schäfer (ILCS/Basle); Johan Siebers (ILCS/Middlesex) and Antimo Lucarelli (ILCS).

The flyer with the program of the event is available at this link.

For further information, please visit the website of the event.

Below you can find the abstract of the workshop.

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In his commentary on Hegel, Subject-Object: Erläuterungen zu Hegel (1951), Ernst Bloch criticises the closed structure of Hegel’s system as the ‘spell of anamnesis’ that makes it impossible to think something really new. At the same time, he describes the structure of Hegel’s system as the simultaneity of the presence and the absence of the whole, the totum: a structure he calls a ‘utopian presence’. Whilst Hegel (and Bloch) criticise any abstract understanding of Utopia that opposes it to the present world in an external way, according to this interpretation, a utopian structure can be found at the very heart of Hegel’s system. Together with Bloch’s reference to Schelling’s late positive philosophy – as focusing on a drive striving beyond any abstract-identical, un-historical understanding of presence – and together with references to obvious utopian aspects in Kant’s and Fichte’s practical-moral philosophy, German Idealism plays a central systematic role in Bloch’s concept of (concrete) Utopia. Similarly, this constellation allows one to discern Utopia as a systematic – theoretical and practical – structure present in German Idealism itself. Although Bloch explicitly refers to these connections, the role of German Idealism as a central historical and systematic source for his concept of Utopia is still widely neglected in research on Bloch, and Utopia and its constitutive role are still a marginalised topic in research on German Idealism. At a time of crisis such as this – characterised by its uncertainty and openness –addressing this question is particularly relevant.

This workshop aims to respond to this by dwelling on this constellation and discussing its systematic and critical relevance from different perspectives – be it with regard to Bloch’s dialogue with German Idealism, or to German Idealism itself (particularly in the work of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, but also in that of other figures belonging to this tradition such as Hölderlin).

Workshop: "Utopia in German Idealism" (London, 17 May 2024)

Call for Papers: Implications philosophiques, “Schelling’s Naturphilosophie: A legacy”

Giulia Bernard // Apr 26, 2024

We are very glad to give notice of the opening of a Call for Papers for the issue of Implications philosophiques on Schelling’s Naturphilosophie: A legacy.

Editors: Caroline Angleraux (Inserm), Circé Furtwängler (Paris 1), Louis Morelle (Paris 1).

Deadline for the submission: May 15th, 2024.

Below you can find the text of the call.

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”Mr. Schelling again returned to nature its legitimate rights; he strove for a reconciliation of spirit and nature; he wanted to join both again in the eternal world-soul. He restored that great Naturphilosophie which we find in the ancient Greek philosophers […]”, so writes Heinrich Heine attempting in 1834 to provide a history of then-recent German philosophy. While the name of Schelling is inextricably linked with Naturphilosophie, this association is not an unpolemic or unproblematic one. From the start, his project of a Philosophy of Nature has faced its share of criticisms, stemming from philosophy as well as the sciences: as a purely speculative thought aspiring to rival empirical physics on its own terms, Naturphilosophie could readily be described as the most accomplished form of philosophical Schwärmerei. And to be sure, its grandiose ambitions, its stepping beyond the bounds of human understanding (as set in kantian terms) to recreate through purely conceptual concatenation the stages leading to the worldly emergence of consciousness, were easily seen as yielding little more than an artful metaphysical tale wherein the natural sciences figured, at best, in an ancillary role with regards to a vast (if somewhat confusing) story about spirit conquering its own freedom through its journey in the material realm. A strange mixture of mythological ambition, empirical appropriation, and wild formalism, Naturphilosophie was (and long remained) seen as the adolescent phase of german idealism, a perhaps creative moment that fortunately gave way to more mature developments, ones able to provide proper accounts of idealism, empiricism, and history, as found in the latter Schelling.

The preceding account, popularized by hegelian historiography as well as the general disgrace of so-called ‘romantic science’ after the advent of positivism, has faced a growing series of scholarly challenges in the light of recent historical research, which has worked to bring light Schelling’s own implication within the scientific debates of his time, as well the broader relevance of Naturphilosophie, not only as a speculative concern but also an epistemological one, involved in active scientific conceptual stakes. More recently, contemporary metaphysics has found in Schelling’s naturphilosophischen writings some fruitful use, be it for a revival of the idealism-realism controversy, or an account of the ontological status of nonhuman beings.

This call for contributions is aimed at researchers working on Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and its reception, at the meeting point of metaphysics, history of philosophy, and history of science. It will pay special attention to contributions aiming at highlighting how concepts and problems specific to schellingian Naturphilosophie might have historically influenced or found resonance in later philosophies, or, at a more conceptual level, can bring light on contemporary debates.

Timetable for the call

March 2024: call opens
May 15, 2024: Deadline for submission of abstracts (750 words, 5 keywords)
June 30, 2024: Replies to authors
September 1, 2024: Deadline for submission of articles
November 1, 2024: Deadline for replies to authors
December 2024: publication of the articles

Proposals for contributions should be sent to the following addresses:
caroline@angleraux.com
circe.furtwangler@gmail.com
louis.morelle@gmail.com
before May 15th, 2024.
Proposals should not exceed 750 words, and should specify the title, the focus and five keywords. They should be sent in an anonymized PDF document, for double-blind evaluation. Please indicate (in the body of the e-mail only): the author’s first and last name, the title of the proposal, his/her institutional affiliation and a contact e-mail address.

For further information, please visit the website of the Journal.