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New Release: Bernd Dörflinger, “Studien zur Religionsphilosophie Immanuel Kants” (De Gruyter, 2023)

Barbara Santini // Dec 4, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Studien zur Religionsphilosophie Immanuel Kants by Bernd Dörflinger, edited by Dieter Hüning and Stefan Klingner (De Gruyter, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

Kant’s critical philosophy has had complex consequences for religion: on the one hand, Kant grounded the morality of religious premises independently while, on the other hand, still attributing the historical religions a role in the establishment of a moral “religious faith.” Bernd Dörflinger shows how Kant questioned religious claims to validity, putting a purely rational moral philosophy in their place.

The Table of Contents is available at this link.

New Release: Bernd Dörflinger, "Studien zur Religionsphilosophie Immanuel Kants" (De Gruyter, 2023)

Workshop: “Crises in Nature. Philosophy of Spirit and Philosophy of Nature” (Basel, 8-9 December)

Giulia La Rocca // Dec 3, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the workshop Crises in Nature. Philosophy of Spirit and Philosophy of Nature, which will find place at the Universität Basel, on December 8th-9th, 2023.

Luca Illetterati will be guest of the workshop.

Please find below the program of the event. The flyer of the workshop is available at this link.

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Friday 8th of December
11.00 – 12.15
Yuliia Tereshchenko – „Hegel on Otherness: Self, Alienation, and Citizenship“
12.25 – 13.25
Friederike Allner – „Entwicklung oder Entfaltung. Über die Notwendigkeit von Sprüngen im Geist“
14.25 – 15.25
Andrej Peter – „Leben, Arbeit, Krise“
15.35 – 16.35
Joshua Meyer – „Zur Krise der menschlichen Selbsterkenntnis. Hegel und Menke über Bildung und Befreiung“

Lecture on Friday 8th of December
17.00 – 18.30
Luca Illetterati – „Nature after the crisis of nature“

Saturday 9th of December
10.00 – 11.00
Marcus Döller – „Verleugnung der Natur als Krise der Natur“
11.10 – 12.10
Emmanuel Nakamura – „Die Negativität der zweiten Natur“
13.10 – 14.10
Karen Koch – „Nature, Metaphysics, and Sexual Difference. On Hegel and Biological Determinism“
14.20 – 15.20
Gregor Schäfer – „From Nature to Spirit. Systematic Considerations on the Place of Crisis in Hegel“

International Conference: “Natur – Geschichte – Kunst. Schellings Philosophie im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns” (Tokyo, 1-3 December 2023)

Giulia Bernard // Dec 2, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the International Conference Natur – Geschichte – Kunst. Schellings Philosophie im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns, which will take place on December 1st-3rd, 2023, at the University of Tokyo.

The conference is organized by Prof. Dr. Tanehisa Otabe.

Below you can find the program of the event.

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International Conference: "Natur - Geschichte - Kunst. Schellings Philosophie im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns" (Tokyo, 1-3 December 2023) 3

New Release: Michael Quante, “Il Marx non riconciliato. Il mondo in tumulto” (Castelvecchi, 2023)

hegelpd // Dec 2, 2023

We are very glad to announce the publication of Michael Quante’s book, Il Marx non riconciliato. Il mondo in tumulto (Castelvecchi, 2023), edited by Armando Manchisi and translated by Veronica Ceruti.

From the publisher’s website (in Italian):

Karl Marx è ancora attuale non perché abbia previsto in modo scientifico gli sviluppi del capitalismo, ma perché il mondo che ha criticato è, nonostante tutto, ancora il nostro: un sistema sociale ed economico che produce ovunque alienazione e ingiustizia. Secondo Michael Quante – presidente della Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung e tra i più importanti filosofi tedeschi contemporanei – l’idea fondamentale della filosofia marxiana è proprio questa: il capitalismo impedisce strutturalmente la realizzazione della forma di vita umana e dev’essere quindi criticato. Unendo precisione filologica e appassionato acume teorico, Quante ci invita così a riscoprire il valore etico che attraversa l’opera di Marx, dai manoscritti giovanili al Capitale, e il suo rifiuto di qualsiasi conciliazione con le ingiustizie del capitalismo.

Courtesy of the publisher Castelvecchi, we share the Table of contents and the first pages of the book, including the Editor’s Presentation and the Author’s Preface to the Italian edition.

New Release: Michael Quante, "Il Marx non riconciliato. Il mondo in tumulto" (Castelvecchi, 2023)

Unfolded

Laura Dequal // Dec 1, 2023

Su Yu-Xin, Unfolded, 2020, Oil and acrylic on flax, 115×200 cm

Summer School: System and Complexity in Classical German Philosophy (Salvador Donoso, January 8-12, 2024)

Elisa Gremmo // Dec 1, 2023

We are happy to give notice of the International Summer School, which will be devoted to System and Complexity in German Idealism. The summer school will be held at The Institute of Philosophy of the Diego Portales University (Salvador Donoso, Chile), on 8-12 January, 2024.

The deadline for the submission is: 30th of November 2023.

Target audience: Ph.D. and M.A. researchers (after evaluation, the participation of postdoctoral researchers would be allowed). Fluency in Spanish and English is necessary.

For applications, send an email to: complexitysummerschool@gmail.com

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The problem of complexity has taken place since philosophy as a problem located in the systemic relationship between the totality and its parts. This relation, which has been going on since Heraclitus, has been predominant in the course of German Idealism. The unity of the parts in the totality presents us with the philosophical dilemma of the coherence and connection of the system and subsystems. The unity of the totality captivated the attention and criticism of various German authors towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Hölderlin’s hen-kai-pan (one-and-all) is the manifest result of this spirit of the times, which is gestated in dialogues, epistolaries and voluminous replies. Philosophical thought as a unitary system is representative of canonical authors of German idealism, but who differ in the diverse ontology of that unit in the metaphysical, aesthetic, political, practical corpus, etc. In this sense, the complexity of relations and interrelations of the systems marks the guiding thread of the debates o n unity and difference in canonical authors such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Jacobi. This complexity is the theme of this International Summer School.

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Relatores / Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Rocío Garcés Ferrer (Diego Portales University)

Prof. Dr. Zdravko Kobe (Ljubljana University)

Prof. Dr. Anton Fr. Koch (University of Heidelberg)

Dr. Giovanna Miolli (University of Padua)

Prof. Dr. Sandra Palermo (University of Pavia)

Prof. Dr. Pablo Pulgar Moya (Diego Portales University)

Prof. Dr. Jimena Solé (University of Buenos Aires)

Panelistas / Speakers:

Dr (c). Fernanda Medina (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso)

Organizadores / Organizers:

Dr (c). Fernanda Medina (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso)

Dr. Giovanna Miolli (University of Padua)

Prof. Dr. Pablo Pulgar Moya (Diego Portales University)

For more informations: Summer School – System and Complexity in Classical German Philosophy

Summer School: System and Complexity in Classical German Philosophy (Salvador Donoso, January 8-12, 2024)

New Release: Miguel Giusti, Thomas S. Hoffmann, Agemir Bavaresco, “Hegel e o círculo das ciências. Atas do III Congresso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre a Filosofia de Hegel – Vol. 3” (Editora Fundação Fênix, 2023)

Elisa Gremmo // Nov 30, 2023

We are glad to give notice of Hegel e o círculo das ciências. Atas do III Congresso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre a Filosofia de Hegel – Vol. 3, edited by Miguel Giusti, Thomas S. Hoffmann, Agemir Bavaresco (Editora Fundação Fênix, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

La conmemoración de los 250 años del nacimiento de Hegel es una ocasión propicia para debatir sobre la novedosa interpretación que el pensador alemán le dio al sentido, a la tarea y a la construcción sistemática de la filosofía. En particular, se tratará de tematizar la relación de la filosofía con las otras figuras del saber humano, especialmente con aquellas que poseen pretensiones de cientificidad. Es sabido que Hegel mismo sostuvo que la filosofía debía dejar de ser simplemente “amor a la sabiduría” para convertirse en “saber efectivo” o en “ciencia”. A partir de una compresión dialéctica de las categorías del pensamiento y del método de las ciencias particulares, la totalidad del saber debía desarrollarse en un “círculo de círculos”, focalizado en la filosofía y en las ciencias filosóficas, pero abierto asimismo al diálogo con las demás ciencias.

El III Congreso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre la Filosofía de Hegel se propone hacer un balance y someter a discusión la actualidad de esta empresa teórica. En muchos ámbitos de la discusión filosofía, pero también en los debates epistemológicos contemporáneos de las más diversas ciencias, se deja sentir, en efecto, el eco de las grandes intuiciones de la filosofía de Hegel, ya sea en la conciencia de la historicidad del pensar, o ya sea en la dimensión social, comunitaria, de la racionalidad; tanto en la concepción que tenemos de la historia del arte o la filosofía, como en el cuestionamiento de los principios de la modernidad o en los fundamentos de una era postmoderna.

264 – Hegel y el círculo de las ciencias v. III

New Release: Miguel Giusti, Thomas S. Hoffmann, Agemir Bavaresco, "Hegel e o círculo das ciências. Atas do III Congresso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre a Filosofia de Hegel - Vol. 3" (Editora Fundação Fênix, 2023)

CFP: “The Legacy of Hegel’s Realphilosophy and Philosophy of Nature” («Ethic in Progress», 2024)

Giulia La Rocca // Nov 28, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the call for papers for the new issue of «Ethic in Progress» (2024), titled The Legacy of Hegel’s Realphilosophy and Philosophy of Nature.

Guest-editor of the issue will be Giulia Battistoni.

Deadline for submission of an abstract in english (length: 250 words) is November 30th, 2023. Abstracts should be submitted to the guest editor: giulia.battistoni.90@gmail.com.

Deadline for submission of complete manuscripts in English is February 29th, 2024 (EiP can provide linguistic proofreading of English texts).

Notifications for the authors on the peer reviewing process: June 31st – September 30th, 2024.

Publication date of the volume: 2024

Please find below the text of the call.

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During the Jena period, Hegel developed, among other things, the notion of organism and subject – as well as a specifically natural normativity. Here, the human and animal condition seem evolutionarily linked, and the Geist is merely the subjective spirit or, rather, mens/mentis (see Jaeschke 2011). The organism – as is still evident in the Heidelberg and Berlin periods (e.g., Hegel’s Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Natur) – has the potential for self-transcending toward the intersubjective and general (e.g., through the self-preservation, “die Bewegung seines Werdens”, Genus process, “die Macht über das unorganische”) (Jenaer Systementwürfe, III). In his early theological writings, Hegel even expresses his concern for the integrity of the natural environment in the context of technology and especially the “cunning of reason” [List der Vernunft] (see e.g., Schmid-Kowarzik 2018). Furthermore, Hegel outlines the idea of life on earth as an integral and indivisible value: “überhaupt das Daseyn des Organischen ist das sich Vereinzelnde, contrahirende Thun der ganzen Erde, das in sich reflectiren des Allgemeinen” (Jenaer Systementwürfe, III, p. 123). The nature of this „Thun“ is different than that of „ein Tun aus Begierde oder Trieb“ (Rechts, Pflichten- und Religionslehre für die Unterklasse, p. 217).

It appears that Hegel anticipated 20th-century philosophies of the organism, such as Hans Jonas’ and Jakob von Uexküll’s. Just think about Jonas’ biological philosophy, his understanding of the organism as characterized by subjectivity and individuality (“self-centred individuality being for itself and in contraposition to all the rest of existence”), and his discussion of metabolism as a first kind of freedom within nature (as “productive performance” and more: “In this polarity of self and world, of internal and external (…) the basic situation of freedom with all its daring and distress is potentially complete”, Jonas 2016, p. 54), which remind on Hegel’s theory of the organism and his philosophy of nature. And, again, note that Uexküll had access to the transcript of the Lecture on the Philosophy of Nature, held by Hegel in Berlin in 1821-22 and written by his grandfather, Berend-Johann von Uexküll (see Brentari 2015, p. 24).

Driven by the topicality of these ideas and the still under-explored potential of Hegelianism as bio- and/or ecophilosophy, we are eager to edit a monographic, multi-authored volume on these issues in the international journal Ethics in Progress.

Digital Kant-Lecture: Andrea Esser, “Grenzen der Kritik? Rassismus in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft” (29 November 2023)

Giulia La Rocca // Nov 27, 2023

We are glad to give notice the Digital Kant-Lecture Grenzen der Kritik? Rassismus in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft, by Andrea Esser, which will find place on November 29th, 2023, h. 18:00-20:00, via Webex.

The Digital Kant Lectures will be recorded and published on the YouTube channel of the Digitales Kant-Zentrum NRW.

Please find below the abstract of the lecture (in German):

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Auch im kritischen Werk Kants finden sich Passagen, die rassistische Gedanken aussprechen oder zumindest im Verdacht stehen, dies – direkt oder indirekt – zu tun. Insbesondere Kants dritte Kritik, die Kritik der Urteilskraft, enthält eine Fülle von Beispielen, die eine angemaßte Überlegenheit der europäischen Kultur und einen abwertenden Blick gegenüber andere Ethnien zu erkennen geben. Um Kants Positionierung in der Sache jeweils angemessen zu erfassen, aber auch, um heutigen Leser:innen die oft subtilen Formen der Tradierung rassistischer Sichtweisen bewusst zu machen, ist ein gewisser interpretatorischer Aufwand erforderlich. Im Vortrag möchte ich dies exemplarisch an Stellen zeigen, die teils schon in die Diskussion geraten sind. Mir scheint es dabei wichtig, auch Status und Funktion der Beispiele selbst zu thematisieren. Und schließlich werde ich mich Fragen zuwenden, die ich mit einem Team in Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts bearbeite: Warum müssen wir uns mit diesen Stellen in Lehre und Forschung auseinandersetzen? Und wie können wir mit ihnen angemessen umgehen, ohne die Klischees und Herabwürdigungen zu tradieren, aber auch ohne die kritischen Gedanken der kantischen Philosophie zu verwerfen?

For further information, please visit the website of the DIgitales Kant-Zentrum.

New release: E. Maraguat, “True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic” (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Giovanni Mezzavilla // Nov 27, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the volume True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic by Edgar Maraguat (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

This book addresses a key issue in Hegel’s philosophical legacy – his account of purposiveness and teleology – that has often been wrongly criticised and misunderstood. In a re-examination of Hegel’s account of purposiveness and teleology, Edgar Maraguat explores its connection with the rest of Hegel’s philosophy, traces the influence of Aristotle and Kant on its arguments, and closely analyses its place in Hegel’s Science of Logic. The result is a new perspective not only on the nature, spirit and goals of the Logic, but on the whole of Hegel’s philosophical legacy, and will appeal to a range of readers in Hegel studies, the history of philosophy, and the history of ideas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – Kant’s Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology

Chapter 3 – Kant’s Concept of Inner Purposiveness

Chapter 4 – Aristotle’s Defence of Natural Teleology

Chapter 5 – The Non-truth of Mechanism

Chapter 6 – The Non-truth of External Purposiveness

Chapter 7 – The Truth of Inner Purposiveness

Chapter 8 – The Immediate Actuality of Purposes

Chapter 9 – The Absolute Realised Purpose

New release: E. Maraguat, "True Purposes in Hegel's Logic" (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Reminder: International Conference: “Freedom of God, Freedom of the Human Being. Schelling and the Medieval Philosophy” (Padova, 28-29 November 2023)

hegelpd // Nov 26, 2023

We are glad to remind you that the International Conference Freedom of God, Freedom of the Human Being. Schelling and the Medieval Philosophy / Libertà di Dio, libertà dell’essere umano. Schelling e la filosofia medievale / Freiheit Gottes, Freiheit des Menschen. Schelling und die mittelalterliche Philosophie / Liberté de Dieu, liberté de l’homme. Schelling et la philosophie médiéval will take place on November 28th-29th at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio – Piazza Capitaniato 3) and on Zoom.

For both in-person and Zoom attendance, please email phil-rel.pd@hotmail.com.

The conference is organized by Enrico Moro and Barbara Santini, in cooperation with CIRFIM and the Internationale Schelling-Gesellschaft. The event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology of the University of Padova.

Speakers will include Olivier Boulnois (École pratique des hautes études, Paris), Giovanni Catapano (Università degli Studi di Padova), Christian Danz (Universität Wien), Gianfranco Frigo (Università degli Studi di Padova), Laurent Lavaud (Université Sorbonne, Paris), Antonio Petagine (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Stefan Schick (Universität Leipzig), Henning Tegtmeyer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).

Below you can find the program of the conference.

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November 28th, Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio

09:30 Welcome and Introduction – Enrico Moro and Barbara Santini

Session I – Chair: Barbara Santini
09:45 – 10:45 Christian Danz (Universität Wien), Der Herr des Seins. Schellings Gottesbegriff im theologie- und philosophiegeschichtlichen Kontext
11:00 – 12:00 Gianfranco Frigo (Università degli Studi di Padova), Il fondamento della libertà in Schelling: la distinzione tra Grund ed Existenz, nel contesto di quella tradizionale tra essentia ed existentia
12:15 – 13:15 Stefan Schick (Universität Leipzig), All Reason Rests on a Dark Ground

Session II – Chair: Cecilia Martini
15:15 – 16:15 Laurent Lavaud (Université Sorbonne, Paris), What is the Principle of Human Freedom according to Plotinus?
16:30 – 17:30 Giovanni Catapano (Università degli Studi di Padova), Augustine on Evil and Creation. About two Quotations in Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations
17:45 – 18:45 Antonio Petagine (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Freedom of God, Freedom of Human Beings: John Duns Scotus and some Early Scotists

November 29th, Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio

Session III – Chair: Marco Zambon
09:30 – 10:30 Olivier Boulnois (École pratique des hautes études, Paris), Il bene, il male e la libertà. Significato della rottura schellinghiana
10:45 – 11:45 Henning Tegtmeyer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Between Aquinas and Heresy. Schelling on Divine Freedom
12:00 – 13:00 Roundtable
13:00 – 13:15 Conclusion Enrico Moro and Barbara Santini

The program of the international conference is available at thi link.