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New Release: V.L. Waibel, G. Geml, S.C. Jakobsohn, P. Schaller (eds.), “Verwandlungen. Dichter als Leser Kants” (V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023)

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Verwandlungen. Dichter als Leser Kants, edited by Violetta L. Waibel, Gabriele Geml, Sarah Caroline Jakobsohn, Philipp Schaller (V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

Kant, the embodiment of the Enlightenment, of reason, of rationality, attracts writers just as much as the dryness, the systematic nature, the rigorousness of his thinking and writing generate resistance – whether deserved or not. Schiller and Goethe, Hölderlin as well as Kleist, even Grillparzer, have engaged with his thinking. Directly or indirectly, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky have creatively grappled with Kant‘s works. Ironic writers such as Falk, Bonaventura/Klingemann, Heine or Bernhard were attracted to Kant‘s writings and character in order to distance themselves, at times playfully, at times spitefully. From the wide spectrum of literary appropriations, this volume addresses some of the facets and transformations that art uses to approach Kant the thinker.

 

New Release: V.L. Waibel, G. Geml, S.C. Jakobsohn, P. Schaller (eds.), "Verwandlungen. Dichter als Leser Kants" (V&R unipress, 2023)

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CFA: “The Politics of German Idealism” (Coimbra, 6-8 September 2023)

We are glad to give notice that the Call for abstracts for the international conference “The Politics of German Idealism”, which will take place at the Universidade de Coimbra (Institute for Philosophical Studies, IEF) on September 6th-8th 2023, is now opened.

The conference is organized by Bernardo Ferro (IEF, Universidade de Coimbra) and Marta Amaral (IEF, Universidade de Coimbra).

Confirmed keynote speakers are David James (University of Warwick), Esther Neuhann (Universität Hamburg), Günter Zöller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Mário Jorge de Carvalho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Velimir Stojkovski (University of Michigan-Dearborn).

Please find below the text of the call.

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In most Philosophy textbooks, German Idealism is equated with the theoretical revolution initiated by Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and developed in different ways by Fichte, Schelling and Hegel. As its very name suggests, this movement is traditionally defined by its contribution to the modern epistemological debate about the nature and the limits of human cognition. The upcoming conference The Politics of German Idealism, to be held in person at the University of Coimbra, will depart from this standard approach and focus on a less explored but no less important side of this well-known philosophical movement: its contribution to the history of legal, social and political philosophy. By revisiting the practical thought of its proponents, the debates they engaged in and the main criticisms elicited by their writings, we aim to highlight the depth and the originality of their political views and to identify their main similarities and differences. In doing so, we will seek to determine whether there is, in fact, a political philosophy of German Idealism, as opposed to a mere collection of historically related doctrines.

The conference will have a wide thematic scope. We welcome presentations both on Idealism’s leading names (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) and on its lesser-known representatives (Reinhold, Jacobi, Maimon), as well on other figures of classical German philosophy who are directly connected with the movement (Schiller, Herder, Hölderlin, Humboldt, Dalberg, Wieland, Forster, Reimarus, Pistorius, Erhard, Rehberg, Schlegel, Novalis or Schopenhauer, among others). Moreover, potential speakers are free to focus on a wide array of issues, including: the relationship between right, morality and politics; the origin, legitimacy and scope of political authority; the national and international dimensions of right and political power; the concept of human rights; the right to revolution; theories of political participation and representation; the virtues and limitations of political and economic liberalism; the nature and scope of property rights; etc.

Submission guidelines. 

We welcome the participation of PhD students, early career researchers and established scholars.
To participate, please submit an anonymized abstract of 300 to 500 words, in English, by 1 June 2023.
The abstract should be sent to iestudosfilosoficos@gmail.com, attached to an-email with the subject “PGI Abstract”, along with your name and affiliation and a brief biographical note.

Successful applicants will be notified by 31 July 2021 and will be offered up to 30 minutes to present their paper, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The presentations will be in English.

Shortly after the conference, selected speakers will be invited to submit the final version of their papers for publication in an edited volume by an international press.

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International Conference: “‚Gott‘ als Problem in Philosophie, Wissenschaften und Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts” (Tier, 29-31 March 2023)

We are glad to give notice of the International Conference ‚Gott‘ als Problem in Philosophie, Wissenschaften und Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts, which will take place at the Universität Tier on March 29th-31th, 2023.

Organizers are Dieter Hüning (Trier), Stefan Klingner (Göttingen), Hans-Peter Nowitzki (Jena) und Gideon Stiening (München).

The event is sponsored by the Forschungsfonds der Universität Trier and the Wieland-Forschungszentrum Oßmannstedt.

Below you can find the general presentation and the programme of the International Conference.

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Das Zeitalter der Aufklärung gilt zu Recht als ein solches, das den seit der frühen Neuzeit zu verzeichnenden Säkularisierungstendenzen nicht nur neuen Schub verlieh, sondern – zumindest in der Philosophie, einigen Wissenschaften und den Künsten – eine systematische Kontur ausbildete. Ziel der Tagung ist eine angemessen präzise Erfassung der unterschiedlichen Begründungsweisen für die Geltung und Wirksamkeit eines Begriffs bzw. einer (vor- bzw. transrationalen) Vorstellung Gottes in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten im langen 18. Jahrhundert. Dabei soll es mit den Tagungen nicht darum gehen, die unbestreitbar vorhandenen Säkularisierungstendenzen des Zeitalters zu negieren, sondern vielmehr darum, die je spezifischen Überlegungen, Argumentationen oder künstlerischen Reflexionen der einzelnen Autoren im Hinblick auf die Möglichkeit, Notwendigkeit und Wirklichkeit einer Gottesinstanz gerade im Angesicht der Verweltlichungsinteressen der Aufklärung zu sichten und zu prüfen. Die Ausrichtung auf einzelne Autoren ist dabei allein deshalb geboten, weil die disziplinären Grenzen in einem ersten Schritt nur in dieser Weise sinnvoll zu überschreiten sind. Und eben dies ist ein wichtiges Anliegen der Tagungen: Die Einsicht und kritische Reflexion darauf, dass im Zeitalter der Aufklärung gewichtige Fragen – und dazu zählen die Diskussionen über die Gottesinstanz – über Disziplingrenzen hinweg beantwortet wurden.

Programme:

March 29th

Materialistische und empiristische Perspektiven (Raum N 2)
Moderation: Hans-Peter Nowitzki (Jena)

14.00 Grußwort des Präsidenten der Universität Trier: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Jäckel
14.15-15.15 Uhr Dieter Hüning (Trier), Die materialistische Destruktion des Gottesbegriffs in d’Holbachs „Système de la nature“
15.15-16.15 Uhr Falk Wunderlich (Halle), Joseph Priestley: Materialismus und teleologischer Gottesbeweis
16.45-17.45 Uhr Maximilian Lässig (Kaiserslautern), „Das Universum als Gott, nach Grundsätzen des Materialismus“. Materialistische Gottesvorstellung und ‚reine Religion‘ bei Andreas Riem
17.45-18.45 Uhr Simeon Hüttel (Trier), Über Gott und Götter. Das Phänomen der Religion in der Geschichtsphilosophie Montesquieus

March 30th

Deismus, Skeptizismus und Atheismus (Raum A 9/10)
Moderation: Dietrich Schotte (Regensburg)

9.30-10.30 Uhr Henny Blomme (Leuven), Voltaire, d’Holbach, und ein Atheist im Priesterrock
10.30-11.30 Uhr Katharina Probst (Trier), Der gütige Gott ohne Eigenschaften. Demeas Selbstwiderspruch und Humes Methode in den „Dialogen über natürliche Religion“
12.00-13.00 Uhr Björn Spiekermann (Guangzhou), An dentur Athei? Das Problem des Unglaubens im 18. Jahrhundert

Das Gottesproblem bei Immanuel Kant (Raum A 9/10)
Moderation: Stefan Klingner (Göttingen)

14.00-15.00 Uhr Rudolf Meer (Graz), Zwischen „subtilem Anthropomorphismus“ und „transzendentaler Theologie“. Vorkritische Reste in Kants ‚Transzendentaler Dialektik‘ der „Kritik der reinen Vernunft“
15.00-16.00 Uhr Andree Hahmann (Beijing), Gott, Kants ursprüngliches höchstes Gut
16.30-17.30 Uhr Achim Vesper (Frankfurt a. M.), Der moralische Gottesbeweis in Kants „Kritik der Urteilskraft“
17.30-18.30 Uhr Bernd Dörflinger (Trier), Der Gottesglaube im Kontext der moralischen Vernunftreligion Kants – eine eingeschränkte Art des Fürwahrhaltens

19.00 Uhr Öffentlicher Abendvortrag: Albrecht Beutel (Münster), Aufklärungstheologische Aktualisierungen des Gottesgedankens

March 31st

Das Gottesproblem im Anschluss an Kant (Raum A 9/10)
Moderation: Gideon Stiening (München)

9.30-10.30 Uhr Burkhard Nonnenmacher (Tübingen), Der Gottesbegriff der älteren Tübinger Schule
10.30-11.30 Uhr Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Berlin), Hamanns Gottesverständnis
12.00-13.00 Uhr Christoph Binkelmann (Freiburg), „Jeder wird Gott, soweit er es seyn darf“. Die Vergöttlichung von Individuum und Welt bei Fichte

For further information please write to: huening@uni-trier.de.

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CFP: «Archivio di Filosofia» XCII – 1/2024: “Logic of the Sensible, Functions of the Intuitive in Modern Philosophy: Antecedents and Perspectives”

We are glad to give notice that the Call for papers for the issue of «Archivio di Filosofia» XCII – 1/2024, Logic of the Sensible, Functions of the Intuitive in Modern Philosophy: Antecedents and Perspectives, is now opened. This issue is edited by Iacopo Chiaravalli (Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Roma) and Luigi Filieri (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz).

Please find below the text of the call.

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A spider weaving a web born from its own entrails. This metaphor by Francis Bacon might summarize a historiographical prejudice according to which modern philosophy gives priority to cognitive abilities and conceptual activities belonging to the spontaneity of the subject. The scope of these activities – within which knowledge gains universal validity by means of some sort of detachment from the empirical level – would be the only one where the verum et factum convertuntur is to be achieved. To many interpreters, this view serves as a good formula in order to depict the historical and philosophical context developed throughout the seventeenth century. The aim of this special issue is to tell a different story.

Works like Descartes’ Rules help us see that the situation is far more complex, by arguing that the abstractness of the activity of the understanding leaves it vulnerable to self-delusion it cannot escape by conceptual means. This is exactly the reason why the ability of the imagination helps the subject avoid self-delusion by providing a sensible reference to the concept. This turn implies that the concept does not have per se an adequate ontological reference. Thus, the understanding no longer plays the role of the capacity for openness to forms – as it was in the Aristotelian tradition. Rather, it becomes a moment of autonomous elaboration through which objects are structured and de-structured according to rational cognitive aims. Generality and essence thus take different paths to the extent that they are now irreducible to each other.

Moreover, the sensuous image provided by the imagination no longer relates to the noetic in the same way a copy imitates a model: it rather exemplifies a general element that cannot be represented as such. However, this also implies that the sensible and the imaginative aspects begin to develop their own methods and structure in a way that differs from the conceptual order. These aspects complement the latter order by providing it with something it cannot achieve autonomously. As the logic of the sensible and the logic of the concept diverge, the great problem that modern philosophy has to face is to find a way to bridge this gap.

We can then answer the question of why the generalizing function of the concept does need a sensible reference in the following way. If the concept gathers the general features of the object thereby making it possible to acknowledge it in cognition, the concept is, at the same time, unable to prove the reality and existence of the very same object. If Duns Scotus already pointed to the impossibility to let the cognition of the essence of an entity simply correspond to the cognition of its existence, now the problem is to account for the cognition of an existence in terms of a sensible form of cognition. The sensuous or imaginative representation thus points to the ability to deal with three key features of the object: its sensible connotations, its individuality, and its very existence. This newly framed correspondence between existence and sensible cognition will be understood, from Kant onwards, in terms of intuition.

To combine the logic of the sensible and the logic of the concept therefore means, on the one hand, to grasp and account for intuitive structures and, on the other hand, to understand the way in which intuition shapes the form of concepts. The concept must be able to make itself sensible if it is to defend its cognitive grasp and efficacy. One might say that, in a way, modern philosophy plots its own developmental route by trying to find a balance between intuitiveness and discursivity, particular and general, existence and essence, image and concept. This balance arguably finds in the Hegelian notion of reason as self-realization of the absolute idea one of its most exemplifying options.

This special issue aims to address these topics by running through the key moments of the historical and theoretical elaboration of the relationship between concept, intuition and sensibility. From ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, and late Platonism), through Scholastics (in particular the debate on the notion of cognitio intuitiva), the aim is to show how modern philosophy has been dealing with this sort of comeback of the intuitive (in Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Kant and Hegel), and how this very question has reached the twentieth century. Throughout the latter, the logic of the sensible has indeed claimed a special kind of primacy over the logic of the concept: from Husserl’s focus on the passive and pre-discursive level of cognition to Neo-Kantian approaches making the case for a broader account of conceptuality that also includes and re-assess the sphere of the intuitive.

Deadline: December, 31st 2023.

Length: 50.000 characters (including space, notes, and literature).

Languages: Italian, English.

Submission (all manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review; all personal details must be removed): chiaravalli@studigermanici.it; lfilieri@uni-mainz.de.

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Workshop: DFG-Research Network on Classical German Anthropologies. 1st workshop. “Anthropological dimensions of transcendental philosophy” (Heidelberg, 16-17 March 2023)

We are glad to announce the 1st event of the DFG research network on Classical German Anthropologieswhich will take place in Heidelberg on March 16th and 17th 2023.

The workshop will explore the topic of Anthropological Dimensions of Classical German Philosophy.

Please find the flyer with the program at this link.

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About the network: 

The aim of this network is to collaboratively develop a new perspective on classical German philosophy. The basic idea is that the philosophy of Kant and post-Kantian authors is, among other things, profoundly inspired by ‘anthropology’, namely by reflections exploring the distinctly human point of view. Historically, the term “anthropology” (Anthropologie) gained unprecedented traction in Germany within the period between XVIII and XIX century. “Anthropologie” meant different things to different people: it referred to various competing approaches investigating human mindedness and cognition, which involved disciplines as diverse such as physiology, medicine, comparative anatomy and philosophy. However, the views –– and the controversies– developed in that context profoundly shaped the reflection of classical authors on key topics: body, mindedness, human capacities, natural constitutions and the place of the human being within nature.
In bringing together an international group of experts, this network seeks to jointly establish the research area of Classical German Anthropology and point out what we can learn from it for current debates on what it means to be a human being.

Contacts: classicalgermananthropologies@gmail.com

Website, info and mailing list: classicalgermananthropologies.com

Coordinators: Julia Peters (Heidelberg), Luca Corti (Padua), Johannes-Georg Schülein (Bochum)

 

Programme

1st event of the DFG-Research Network “Classical German Anthropologies” 

Anthropological dimensions of transcendental philosophy 

(Heidelberg, March 16th 17th 2023)

Day 1 (March 16th):

9.00-9:30         Introduction

                        (Julia Peters, Luca Corti, Johannes-Georg Schülein)

9.30-11.00       The anthropological dimension in Kant’s Practical Philosophy I 

                        (Intro: Julia Peters)

11.30-13:00    The anthropological dimension in Kant’s Practical Philosophy II 

                        (Intro: Jessica Tizzard)

15.00-16:30    The anthropological dimension in Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy I

                        (intro: Andrea Kern)

16.45-18:00    The anthropological dimension in Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy II 

                        (intro: Stefanie Buchenau)

18.15-19.30    Evening guest lecture & discussion. Peter McLaughlin: “What are Kant’s papers on Human Races About?”

 

Day 2 (March 17):

9-10:30            Aenesidemus: Schulze’s critique of Kant 

                        (intro: Karin Nisenbaum)

11-12:30          Language and Anthropology in the Herder-Kant Debate

                        (intro: Mario Marino)

14-15:30          Anthropology and Human Nature in Jacobi 

                        (intro: Johannes-Georg Schülein)

16-17:30          Group Discussion

 

 

Workshop: DFG-Research Network on Classical German Anthropologies: 1st worksop. "Anthropological dimensions of transcendental philosophy" (Heidelberg, 16-17 March 2023)

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New Release: «Studi Kantiani» XXXV, 2022

We are glad to give notice of the release of the issue of «Studi Kantiani» XXXV, 2022.

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Table of contents.

Prime pagine e sommario / Frontmatter and Contents

Angela Breitenbach – Kant on the Value of Nature
Helga Varden – Kant and the Enviroment
Stefano Lo Re – A Kantian Argument for Sustainable Property Use
Laura Marcon, Klaudijo Klaser – Il senso di fare la cosa giusta: Rawls e Kant sugli accordi climatici
Hope Sample – A Kantian Approach to Climate Ethics: Prospects and Problems
Béatrice Longuenesse – Kant on ‘the Self’ and ‘the I’
Rômulo Eisinger Guimarães – If Judgements of Taste are Disinterested, Why Does Beauty Matter So Much to Us? On the Interests in the Beautiful in Kant
Sofie Møller – Hindsight and Foresight in Kant’s Historical Sign
Roberta Picardi – Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right within the Current Debate on Migration: The Conflicting Interpretations of David Miller and Karoline Reinhardt
Karoline Reinhardt – A Right to Migrate? On The Virtue of Productive Disharmony
David Miller – What Kant Might Have Said About Immigration: An Alternative View
Dietmar Heidemann – Self-Knowledge and the Problem of Existence
Martin Sticker – The Use of the Formula of Humanity

Recensioni

Luigi Filieri e Lorenzo Sala (a cura di) – Bollettino bibliografico
Sigle delle opere di Kant

 

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CFA: International Conference “Between Substance and Subject. The Presence of Spinoza in Hegel” (Ljubljana, 26–28 October 2023)

We are glad to give notice of the Call for Abstracts for the International Conference Between Substance and Subject. The Presence of Spinoza in Hegel, which will take place on October 26th-28th, 2023, at the University of Ljubljana (Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television AGRFT, Aškerčeva cesta 5).

Submission deadline: June 15th, 2023.

Notification of acceptance by August 31st, 2023.

Abstracts (no more than 500 words) should be sent as attachment to luca.illetterati@unipd.it and zdravko.kobe@ff.uni-lj.si.

The conference in Ljubljana is organized by Luca Illetterati and Zdravko Kobe, together with the Internationales Netzwerk Hegels Relevanz.

Below you can find the text of the call for abstract.

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The International Network Hegel’s Relevance cordially invites submissions for the yearly Network Conference.

In the Lectures on the History of Philosophy Hegel notes that Spinoza confronts us with the fundamental alternative: Either Spinozism or no philosophy. In the Science of Logic, he affirms that the only possible refutation of Spinozism consists in first acknowledging its standpoint as essential and necessary and then raising it to a higher level out of its own resources. In philosophy one is accordingly bound to begin as a Spinozist, but it is of equal importance not to remain one. Even Hegel’s programmatic declaration in the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit that in his view the true must be comprehended not merely as substance but also as subject, may be read in a double reference to Spinoza: on the one hand, Hegel seems to put the task of philosophy in accepting Spinozist metaphysics and nonetheless in preserving the dimensions of freedom, beauty and life that is usually associated with subjectivity, which Spinozism is supposed to lack; according to the methodological reading, on the other hand, Hegel may be said to call for developing a new conceptual regime that would supersede the mechanistic logic of understanding, exemplified by Spinoza’s mos geometricus, into a truly
Hegelian logic of reason. Hegel’s entire philosophical system can thus be understood as a prolonged argument with Spinoza that raised to prominence with the Pantheism Controversy. What is more, not only there was a time when Hegel himself defended metaphysics of one substance, it may be argued that he eventually distanced himself from Spinozist metaphysics under the influence of Spinoza’s own political philosophy. The question is, of course, to what extent Hegel’s understanding of Spinoza was correct (for instance, omnis determinatio negatio, the concept of infinity) and to what extent he read it through Jacobi or Schelling. But it is obvious that, in most various forms, Spinoza is present throughout his philosophy, be it as the ideal to match or the adversary to beat. The aim of the conference is to explore this multifaceted presence of Spinoza in Hegel. We welcome papers on any aspect of the topic and stimulate fruitful exchange between established scholars, junior researchers, and PhD students.

 

Keynote speakers: Diogo Ferrer, Gilles Marmasse, Yitzhak Melamed, Vittorio Morfino, Birgit Sandkaulen, Myriam Bienenstock and Stephen Houlgate

Organization: Steering committee of the International Network Hegel’s Relevance / Internationales Netzwerk Hegels Relevanz: Jiří Chotaš (Prag), Paul Cobben (Tilburg), Diogo Ferrer (Coimbra), Max Gottschlich (Linz), Stephen Houlgate (Warwick), Luca Illetterati (Padua), David James (Warwick), Zdravko Kobe (Ljubljana), Christian Krijnen (Amsterdam), Tereza Matějčková (Prag), Ermylos Plevrakis (Heidelberg), Alberto Siani (Pisa), Klaus Vieweg (Jena), Jean-François Kervégan (Paris), and Folko Zander (Jena).ù

 

Submission guidelines

Submission deadline: June 15th, 2023
Notification of acceptance by August 31st, 2023
Presentation time will be 25 minutes
Conference languages: German and English

Abstracts (no more than 500 words) should be sent as attachment to luca.illetterati@unipd.it and zdravko.kobe@ff.uni-lj.si.

Abstracts should be prepared for double-blind review by removing any identification details. The author’s name, paper title, institutional position and affiliation, as well as contact information and a short CV, should be included in the body of the e-mail, with ‘Submission
Hegel Network 2023’ in the subject line.

The presented papers will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed series ‘Critical Studies in German Idealism’ (BRILL: Leiden/Boston). Publication language: English.

 

Information about the conference and the network will be available on https://www.speculativethought.com & https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/international-network-hegel-s-relevance-in-german.

The full text of the CFA can be found at this link.

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Call for Participation: Sommerschule “Natur und Geist in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie“ (Stuttgart, 26 – 30 July 2023)

We are glad to give notice that a call for participation is open for the Sommerschule Natur und Geist in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie, which will take place at the Philosophisches Institut of the University of Stuttgart from July 26 to July 30, 2023.

The organizer of the Sommerschule is Christian Martin, and the deadline for the call for participation is set on April 1, 2023.

Below you can find more details concerning the program as well as a description of the contents of the Sommerschule.

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Vor dem Hintergrund der wissenschaftlichen Revolution der Neuzeit gehen einschlägige Ansätze der klassischen deutschen Philosophie im Anschluss an Kant davon aus, dass sich Natur nicht in dem erschöpft, was sich naturwissenschaftlich von ihr erkennen lässt. Angesichts der Vielfalt menschlicher Naturverhältnisse, deren Unterschiede und Beziehungen philosophisch zu reflektieren sind, besteht Bedarf an einer Naturphilosophie, die naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisansprüche zugleich legitimiert und kritisch beschränkt. Insofern Natur ein Reflexionsbegriff ist, der nur als Glied von Begriffspaaren wie Natur/Wissenschaft, Natur/Technik, Natur/Kunst oder Natur/Gesellschaft Sinn ergibt, verhalten sich Menschen zur Natur nicht einfach als einem von ihm unabhängigen Spielraum der Dinge und Ereignisse, sondern menschliche Naturverhältnisse sind wesentlich zugleich Verhältnisse der Menschen zu sich selbst. Jenseits unserer wissenschaftlichen und instrumentellen Einstellungen zur Natur als Zusammenhang gesetzlich geregelter Phänomene bildet unser ästhetisches Naturverhältnis nach Kant einen Zwischen-Raum, in dem natürliche Gegebenheiten und menschliche Tätigkeiten derart zusammenspielen können, dass ihre schöpferische Passung ebenso wie die Fragilität dieser Passung sinnlich-lustvoll erlebbar werden. Hölderlin vertieft diese Perspektive poetisch und poetologisch, indem er den Kulturprozess nicht einfach als menschliche Bemächtigung der Natur darstellt, sondern als tätige Verlängerung eines natürlichen Bildungsgeschehens, das untergründig an seine nichtgemachten Vorgaben zurückgebunden bleibt. Hegel arbeitet heraus, dass es Leben und Geist nur in Rückbindung an eine Erde als einen durch atmosphärische Kreisläufe geprägten, von vernünftigen und nicht vernünftigen Lebewesen bewohnten Planeten geben kann. Marx‘ darstellende Kritik der bürgerlichen Ökonomie macht schließlich deutlich, dass die kapitalistische Weise des Wirtschaftens nicht nur soziale Ungleichheit festschreibt, sondern zugleich dazu tendiert, die irdisch-natürlichen Grundlagen des Wirtschaftens und Wohnens zu untergraben. Im Rahmen der Sommerschule sollen Kants, Hegels, Hölderlins und Marx‘ Konzeptionen des Verhältnisses von Natur und Geist anhand der gemeinsamen Lektüre und Diskussion exemplarischer Primärtexte vergleichend erschlossen werden, um das Potential ihrer Ansätze für eine tragfähige Reflexion menschlicher Verhältnisse zur irdischen Natur angesichts der ökologisch-sozialen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart zu erkunden. Neben der gemeinsamen Arbeit an den Texten bietet die Sommerschule zugleich Gelegenheit zum intensiven Austausch mit Experten, die sich mit Gastvorträgen oder Unterrichtseinheiten an der Sommerschule beteiligen.
Textgrundlage: Auszüge aus Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft, aus Hegels enzyklopädischer Naturphilosophie, Hölderlins Rheinhymne und Pindar Fragmente, Auszüge aus Marx‘ Grundrissen zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie und aus dem 1. Band des Kapitals. Ein Reader im pdf-Format wird den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern der Sommerschule Anfang April zur Verfügung gestellt.
Leitung der Sommerschule: Prof Dr. Christian Martin (Uni Stuttgart)
Mitwirkende Gastdozenten: Dr. Florian Ganzinger (Uni Stuttgart), Dr. Johannes-Georg Schülein (Uni Bochum), PD Dr. Wolfram Ette (LMU München), Dr. Lukas Lutz (Hochschule Osnabrück)
Termin: von Mittwoch 26. 7. um 9:30 bis Sonntag 30. 7. um 13 Uhr
Veranstaltungsort: Institut für Philosophie der Universität Stuttgart, Seidenstraße 36
Kosten für die Teilnehmenden: keine
Anreise: Für auswärtige Teilnehmende stehen in begrenztem Umfang Mittel zur Deckung der Fahrtkosten zur Verfügung. Bedarf bitte bei der Bewerbung angeben.
Unterkunft: Koordination untereinander via Emailliste möglich. Bitte bei der Bewerbung eine Emailadresse angeben, die an die anderen Teilnehmenden weitergegeben werden kann.
Teilnehmerkreis: Masterstudierende und Promovierende im Fach Philosophie. Bewerbungen  weiblicher Studierender und Promovierender sind besonders willkommen.
Auswahl der Teilnehmenden: Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 25 beschränkt. Die Auswahl erfolgt auf Grundlage eines 1-2 seitigen Motivationsschreibens der Interessent*innen.
Bewerbung: bis spätestens 1. 4. 23 per Email an christian.martin@philo.uni-stuttgart.de.

 

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Presentazione del volume: “«… sed intelligere» Studi in onore di Franco Biasutti” (Padova, 13 marzo 2023)

Siamo lietɜ di dare notizia della presentazione del volume «… sed intelligere» Studi in onore di Franco Biasutti a cura di Romana Bassi, Carla Ravazzolo, Gabriele Tomasi (Cleup, 2022).

La presentazione avrà luogo lunedì 13 marzo 2023, alle ore 16.30, presso la Sala delle Edicole (Palazzo del Capitanio, piazza Capitaniato 3, Padova).

Intervengono Elio Franzini e Riccardo Pozzo. Modera Vincenzo Milanesi.

Dalla pagina dell’editore:

La celebre massima spinoziana: «sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere» delinea un habitus che Franco Biasutti ha fatto proprio. Alla ‘prudenza’ metodologica ispirata da queste parole egli si è attenuto con equilibrio e rigore, nella consapevolezza che occorra abbandonare qualunque pre-giudizio per comprendere non solo le azioni umane ma anche i testi filosofici. Facendo perno sulla sua capacità di intelligere, ha dunque coltivato l’attività didattica, il lavoro di ricerca e anche le amicizie nate nel corso degli incarichi istituzionali svolti presso gli Atenei di Padova, di Macerata e a livello nazionale.
Chiunque abbia incontrato Franco Biasutti può testimoniarne il profondo spirito di servizio e la capacità di coniugare generosità d’animo e lucidità di mente. A questa lezione, e alla varietà dei suoi interessi speculativi, i contributi qui raccolti vogliono rendere omaggio.

Presentazione del volume: "«... sed intelligere» Studi in onore di Franco Biasutti" (Padova, 13 marzo 2023)

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New Release: Alexander J. B. Hampton,”Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment. Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity” (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment. Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity, edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton (Cambridge University Press  2023).

From the publisher’s website:

Friedrich Jacobi held a position of unparalleled importance in the golden age of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century intellectual history. Nonetheless, the range and style of his thought and its expression has always posed interpretative challenges that continue to hinder his reception. This volume introduces and evaluates Jacobi’s pivotal place in the history of ideas. It explores his role in catalyzing the close of the Enlightenment through his critique of reason, how he shaped the reception of Kant’s critical philosophy and the subsequent development of German idealism, his effect on the development of Romanticism and religion through his emphasis on feeling, and his influence in shaping the emergence of existentialism. This volume serves as an authoritative resource for one of the most important yet underappreciated figures in modern European intellectual history. It also recasts our understanding of Fichte, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and others in light of his influence and impact.

The Table of Contents is available at this link.

New Release: Alexander J. B. Hampton,"Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment. Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity" ( Cambridge University Press, 2023)

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