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New Release: Saša Hrnjez, “Tradução como conceito. Universalidade, negatividade, tempo” (Paco, 2023)

Giulia La Rocca // Sep 27, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the translation Saša Hrnjez,Tradução como conceito. Universalidade, negatividade, tempo (Paco, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

“A reflexão filosófica pela tradução adquire novos sotaques, novas ênfases, atingindo universos impensados pelo próprio autor, estabelecendo diálogos para além das suas fronteiras geográficas e culturais. A filosofia cresce, avança e dá frutos pela tradução. A tradução é um modo de fazer filosofia e não uma práxis de segunda ordem. O livro de Saša Hrnjez é singular porque, por um lado, foi escrito em língua italiana por um filósofo de madre língua sérvia e, por outro, porque é um livro traduzido sobre filosofia da tradução. Essa singularidade coloca no centro da reflexão filosófica não a sua coincidência radical com o original, a sua fidelidade ao original como aedequatio, senão o seu chamado radical e constante a traduzir. Os chamados intraduzíveis, longe de manifestarem a impossibilidade da tradução, mostram, na realidade, a inexauribilidade de toda e qualquer tradução” (retirado do prefácio).

Table of contents:

PrefácioNota introdutória
Um prólogo, à letra

Primiera parte
A universalidade da tradução. Raízes históricas e perspectivas conceituais

1. A busca da língua perfeita e rejeitada da universalidade
2. As Línguas em relação
3. O modelo de tradução na Alemanha do romantismo: uma abordagem histórico-política
4. Perspectivas da universalidade

Segunda parte
Tradução como negatividade e reflexão: da diferença à contradição.

1. O caráter negativo-diferencial da língua
2. Tradução como negação reflexiva
3. Negação que traduz o outro
4. Traduzibilidade e vida histórica das línguas

Terceira parte.
O tempo maduro para estar atrasado: sobre a temporalidade histórica da tradução.

1. A tradução atrasada
2. Pós-maturação
3. Temporaneidade e temporalidade
4. O presente e o instante
5. Nachträglichkeit
6. O eco do eco
7. Texto traduzido?
8. Filosofia como tradução em atraso
9. “É hora de fechar este prefácio”

New Release: Saša Hrnjez, "Tradução como conceito. Universalidade, negatividade, tempo" (Paco, 2023)

Book Symposium Hegelpd-Prize 2022: Gregory Moss, “Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysisc” (Padova, 4 October 2023)

hegelpd // Sep 27, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Gregory Moss (Chinese University of Hong Kong) will be the guest of our research group for a book symposium on his book Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity (Routledge, 2020), which has been awarded of hegelpd-prize 2022.

The symposium will take place at the University of Padova, Aula Diano (Piazza Capitaniato 7, Palazzo Liviano, 2nd floor, right-end stairs) on October 4th, 2023 at 11:00.

The symposium will feature a lecture by Gregory Moss, followed by an open discussion introduced by comments by Michela Bordignon (UF ABC) and Marco Bonutto (Unipd).

Please find below the abstract of Gregory Moss’s lecture as well as the program of the event.

For further information contact Elena Tripaldi at: elena.tripaldi@phd.unipd.it

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Program:

11.00 Welcome – Luca Illetterati
11.10 Gregory Moss (CUHK), G.W.F. Hegel’s Monism: On the Singularity and Freedom of the Concept
12.30 Break
12.40 – 13.30 Open Discussion on Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity
Introduction to the discussion: Michela Bordignon (UF ABC); Marco Bonutto (Unipd)
Chair: Elena Tripaldi (FU Berlin)
Participants: Laura Dequal, Giulia La Rocca, Giulia Bernard, Armando Manchisi, Luca Corti, Barbara Santini, Claudia Cavaliere, Elena Nardelli, Mattia Megli, Silvia Locatelli, Giovanni Mezzavilla, Giovanna Luciano
13.30 Lunch

Abstract of the lecture:

In “Hegel’s Monism: On the Singularity and Freedom of the Concept” I discuss six epistemological and metaphysical problems, some of which have plagued the history of Western thought for millennia: the problem of nihilism, the problem of instantiation, the problem of the missing difference, the problem of absolute empiricism, the problem of onto-theology, and the third man regress. I show that these problems are generated by a series of problematic assumptions, one of which is the assumption that universality and particularity are distinct principles. Having diagnosed the problem, I turn to Hegel’s Science of Logic to illuminate how Hegel solves these problems. By denying the separation of the principles of universality and particularity, Hegel creatively rethinks the concept as the self-particularizing universal. Finally, I demonstrate how Hegel’s commitment to the self-particularizing universal engenders a radical metaphysical and epistemological monism, in which the concept is the singular being of truth and freedom.

Two Talks: Anselmo Aportone and Michela Summa (Padova, 28 September 2023)

Giovanni Mezzavilla // Sep 26, 2023

We are glad to give notice of two talks that will take place on September 28th, at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Aula Film, piazza Capitaniato 3). The talks will start at 10:00 (CET).

The event is organized by the study centre Noumenon – Thinking Lab for the Study and Understanding of Nature, Mind and Society.

Please find the program below.

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Anselmo Aportone (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Considerazioni kantiane sul rapporto tra identità e tempo

Michela Summa (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), L’autorità della prima persona

Two Talks: Anselmo Aportone and Michela Summa (Padova, 28 September 2023) 2

2nd Berlin-Padua DAAD workshop on Classical German Philosophy: “Encountering Objectivity. Reality and Cognition between German Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Debates” (Padova, 2nd-3rd October, 2023)

hegelpd // Sep 25, 2023

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Berlin-Padua DAAD workshop on Classical German Philosophy. The workshop will take place at the Università di Padova (Sala delle Edicole, piazza Capitaniato 3) on October 2nd-3rd, 2023, and is organized by Karen Koch, Elena Tripaldi, Dina Emundts, and Luca Illetterati.

The workshop is the second meeting of the DAAD Hochschuldialog mit Südeuropa project “Encountering Objectivity. Reality and Cognition between German Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Debates“, whose aim is to investigate the notion and understanding of objectivity in view of the inevitably situated standpoint of human cognition, bridging the gap between contemporary debates in feminist theory and the posthuman, and Classical German Philosophy.

The workshop will feature a Keynote Lecture by Jennifer Bates (Duquesne University) and talks by Giacomo Croci (Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg), Philipp Höfele (Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Leonard Weiss (University of Sheffield), Elena Romano (Freie Universität Berlin), Larissa Wallner (LMU München), Achim Wamssler (Freie Universität Berlin), Lilja Walliser (Freie Universität Berlin), Simon Schüz (RTPU), Tobias Wieland (Freie Universität Berlin) und Karen Koch (Freie Universität Berlin/Universität Basel).

The project is a collaboration between the chair of the history of philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and the research group on Classical German Philosophy “hegelpd” at the University of Padua.

To join the conference please register here: paduaberlinworkshop@gmail.com

You can find the program of the workshop below.

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2nd Berlin-Padua DAAD Workshop on Classical German Philosophy “Encountering Objectivity. Reality and Cognition in Classical German Philosophy and Contemporary Debates”

October 2nd, Sala delle Edicole
9.30 Welcome

SESSION I
Chair: Elena Tripaldi (FU Berlin/Unipd)
10.00 Karen Koch “ Philosophy and its historical situatedness. On Hegel’s conception of philosophy”
Discussant: Giulia La Rocca (Unipd)
11.15 Break
11.30 Giacomo Croci (Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg) “Bye Bye Life. Schelling after Philosophies of Nature”
Discussant: Andrea Colombo (Unipd)
12:45 Lunch Break

SESSION II
Chair: Karen Koch (FU Berlin/ Universität Basel)
13:45 Philipp Höfele “On the Relationship between Nature and Subject: Schelling as a Precursor of Posthumanist Theories?”
Discussant: Giulia Bernard (Unipd)
15.00 Break
15:15 Leonard Weiss (University of Sheffield) “Encountering Individuals. Schelling’s reading of Metaphysics Z”
Discussant: Maurizio Maria Malimpensa (Uni Ferrara)
16.30 Break

17.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE – Chair: Luca Illetterati (Unipd)
Jennifer Bates (Duquesne University)
“Can Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature De-Center the Anthropocentric?”

October 3rd, Sala delle Edicole

SESSION III
Chair: Luca Corti (Unipd)
10:00 Simon Schüz „Idealism’s Attitude Problem: Hegel’s critique of transcendental idealism from Faith and Knowledge to the Phenomenology“
Discussant: Mattia Megli, (Unipd)
11:15 Break
11.30 Tobias Wieland “Dialectic as Critique”
Discussant: Michela Bordignon (UF ABC)

12.45 Lunch break

SESSION IV
Chair: Giovanna Luciano (Unipd)
13:45 Achim Wamssler (FU Berlin) “Hegel and the Impotence of Nature”
Discussant: Luca Corti (Unipd)
15.00 Break
15:15 Lilja Walliser “Where objects were, subjects must be. On the doubling of self-consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit”
Discussant: Andrea Gentili (Unipd)
16:30 Break

SESSION V
Chair: Giulia Bernard (Unipd)
17.00 Elena Romano “Universality without objectivity. Kant’s account of subjective universality and the challenge of situatedness”
Discussant: Davide Puzzolo, (Unipd)
18.15 Break
18.30 Larissa Wallner “Universalism situated. Kant on receptivity and imagining the standpoint of any-somebody else”
Discussant: Martina Zulli (Unipd)

For further information on the project:
https://encounteringobjectivity.weebly.com/workshops.html

2nd Berlin-Padua DAAD workshop on Classical German Philosophy: "Encountering Objectivity. Reality and Cognition between German Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Debates" (Padova, 2nd-3rd October, 2023)

Reminder: Workshop: “Spinoza conteso: il terzo genere di conoscenza in discussione” (Padova, 26-27 September 2023)

Giulia Bernard // Sep 25, 2023

We are very glad to remind that the workshop Spinoza conteso: il terzo genere di conoscenza in discussione will take place on September 26th-27th, 2023, at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio – Piazza Capitaniato 3), the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori (Aula Magna Scuola Galileiana, Via Venezia 20), and on Zoom.

The workshop is organized by the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori, Barbara Santini, and Edoardo Lazetera.

To attend the workshop on Zoom, please find attached the link: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/86208070799.

Below you can find the program of the conference.

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26 settembre, Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio

14.45 Apertura con indirizzi di saluto e introduzione ai lavori – Franco Tomasi e Barbara Santini

Sessione 1 – moderatrice: Barbara Santini

15.00 – 16.00 Giuseppe D’Anna (Università Cattolica di Milano), Che ‘cosa’ conosce il terzo genere di conoscenza di Spinoza?

16.00 – 16.15 pausa

16.15 – 17.15 Marco Ivaldo (Università degli Studi di Napoli), Per e contro Spinoza. L’interpretazione di Jacobi

17.15– 17.30 pausa

17.30 – 18.30 Elena Polledri (Università di Udine) «Ci separiamo dal pacifico En kai Pan del mondo per ricostruirlo attraverso noi stessi»: la dialettica tra “Liebe” e “Selbstheit”, “Eins” e “Alles” in Herder e Hölderlin

27 settembre, Aula Magna della Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori

Sessione 2 – moderatrice: Giulia Bernard

09.00 – 10.00 Zdravko Kobe (Università di Ljubljana), La teoria della conoscenza di Spinoza e la metodologia scientifica di Goethe

10.00 – 10.15 pausa

10.15 – 11.15 Barbara Santini (Università degli Studi di Padova), Né metafisica, né morale, ma religione: il concetto non ortodosso di Dio di Schleiermacher nel confronto con Spinoza

11.15 – 11.30 pausa

11.30 – 13.15 Tavola rotonda con comunicazioni degli studenti e delle studentesse: Anastasia Callegarin, Antonio Fardella, Lorenzo Lo Verso, Giovanni Mezzavilla, Martina Tagliente, Giuseppe Vacca

13.15 – 13.30 Chiusura lavori

To download the full program of the workshop please visit this link.

Reminder: Workshop: "Spinoza conteso: il terzo genere di conoscenza in discussione" (Padova, 26-27 September 2023)

Workshop: “The Persistence of Crisis Within Hegel’s Speculative Reason” (Basel, 28-29 September 2023)

Giovanni Mezzavilla // Sep 24, 2023

We are very glad to give notice of the international workshop The persistence of crisis within Hegel’s speculative reason, which will take place on September 28th-29th 2023, at the University of Basel (Hörsaal 116 and Hörsaal 120, Kollegienhaus -Petersplatz 1).

The workshop is organized by Gregor Schäfer.

Below you can find the program of the conference.

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September 28, Hörsaal 120

12:00–12:45 Gregor Schäfer (University of Basel) – Welcome Address and Thematic Introduction

12:45–13:00 Coffee Break

13:00–14:30 Keynote 1: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida): Crisis, Critique, and the Temporal Orientation of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy

14:30–15:00 Coffee Break

15:00–16:00 Martin Wittwer (University of Freiburg): Absolute Beginning as Crisis

16:00–17:00 Bernardo Ferro (University of Coimbra): Continuity, Contradiction, Crisis: The Case for a Vertical Reading of the Philosophy of Right

17:00–17:45 Coffee Break

17:45–19:15 Keynote 2: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY): Speculative Thinking and its Dialectic— Hegel’s Thought in Today’s World

19:30 Dinner

September 29, Hörsaal 116

09:30–10:30 Cæcilie Varslev–Pedersen (University of Copenhagen): On the ‘Golgatha of Absolute Spirit’: Crisis and the Language of Sacrifice in the Early and Middle Hegel

10:30–10:45 Coffee Break

10:45–11:45 Kevin Thompson (DePaul University): Hegel and the Emaciation of Logic: Formalism as Necessary Contingency

11:45–13:15 Lunch Break

13:15–14:15 Tatiana Llaguno Nieves (University of Groningen): Freely Constituted Dependencies? The Origin of Crises in Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right

14:15–15:15 Bart Zantvoort (Leiden University): When is the Right Time for a Revolution? Hegel on Qualitative Leaps and the Persistence of Crisis

15:15–15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 –16:45 Ana María Guzmán (KHK: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen / University of Bonn): Real Possibilities and the Crisis of Nature

16:45–17:00 Coffee Break

17:00–18:30 Keynote 3: Félix Duque (Autonomous University of Madrid): Schwierige Versöhnung: Das Böse und seine Verzeihung

18:30 End

Please find the full program of the workshop at this link.

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New Release: Giulia Abbadessa (ed.), “Penombre e anamorfosi tra letteratura e filosofia” (IISF Press, 2023)

Giulia La Rocca // Sep 23, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Penombre e anamorfosi tra letteratura e filosofia edited by Giulia Abbadessa (IISF Press, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

I saggi qui raccolti interrogano alcuni intrecci di filosofia e letteratura nel XX e nel XXI secolo, attraversando autori e testi di vario genere, dalla poesia orfica della negritudine alla drammaturgia di Pirandello e all’opera di Wittig, fino alla riflessione filosofica di Deleuze e Foucault e alle proposte teoriche di Debord, Danto e Badiou. Muovendosi in una zona di penombra, questo volume quindi indaga i confini difformi e le anamorfosi, cioè le corrispondenze tra piani diversi, della letteratura e della filosofia.

Table of Contents:

Introduzione. Sui «confini» tra letteratura e filosofia (Giulia Abbadessa)
La filosofia di Pirandello tra vitalismo e nichilismo (Luigi Capitano)
Sulle tracce di Orfeo e Euridice (Giulia Abbadessa)
La machine à simulacres (Emilia Marra)
Pensiero e scrittura del Fuori. Filosofia e letteratura fra Maurice Blanchot e Gilles Deleuze (Claudio D’Aurizio)
Omaggio alla poetica di Guy Debord: «Une vie plus intense, qui n’a pas été vraiment trouvée» (Marta Cassina)
«Il paradiso è all’ombra delle spade»: lotta, pensiero femminista e riletture dantesche eterodosse in Virgile, non di Monique Wittig (Anna Lisa Somma)
La filosofia, i generi letterari e le possibilità della scrittura (Francesco Campana)

The volume is available for download in pdf at this link.

New Release: Giulia Abbadessa (ed.), "Penombre e anamorfosi tra letteratura e filosofia" (IISF Press, 2023)

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Laura Dequal // Sep 22, 2023

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New Releases: S. Buchenau, A. Lyssy (Eds.), “Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment” (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Giovanni Mezzavilla // Sep 22, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the book Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment From Locke to Kant, edited by Stefanie Buchenau, Ansgar Lyssy (Bloomsbury, 2023).

From the publisher’s website :

What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity.

Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors.

With contributions from a team of internationally recognized scholars, including Stephen Gaukroger, Michael Forster, Céline Spector, Jacqueline Taylor, and Günter Zöller, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Enlightenment that is both clear in focus and impressive in scope.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Stefanie Buchenau (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France) and Ansgar Lyssy (University of Leipzig, Germany)

The Presumptive Unity of Humankind in Locke’s Essay, Philippe Hamou (Sorbonne University, France)
2. Human Nature in Montesquieu, Céline Spector ((Sorbonne University, France)
3. The Image of the Human Being in the Comte de Buffon, Catherine Wilson (York University, UK)
4. Hume on Humanity and the Party of Humankind, Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco, USA)
5. Humankind and Humanity in Diderot, Ansgar Lyssy (University of Leipzig, Germany)
6. ‘How do Humans become Human(e)?’ On Rousseau’s Second Discourse and Émile, Gabrielle Radica (University of Lille, France)
7. ‘In the human kind, the species has a progress as well as the individual’: Adam Ferguson on the progress of mankind, Norbert Waszek (Université de Paris 8 – St. Denis, France) and Eveline Hauck (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
8. The Association of Science and Civilization in the Enlightenment, Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney, Australia)
9. Philoctetes at the Edge of Humanity: The German Enlightenment on Social Exclusion and the Education of Feeling, Stefanie Buchenau (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France)
10. Enlightenment Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology: Baumgarten, Kant, and Herder on Moral Feeling(s) and Obligation’, Nigel Desouza (University of Ottawa, Canada)
11. Herder on Humanity, Michael Forster (University of Chicago, USA)
12. Blumenbach on the Varieties of the Human Species, François Duchesneau (University of Montreal, Canada)
13. Can Kant’s ‘Man’ be a Woman?, Charlotte Morel (CNRS / ENS Paris, France)
14. ‘Anthroponomy’. Kant on the Natural and the Rational Human Being, Günter Zöller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
Index

New Releases: S. Buchenau, A. Lyssy (Eds.), "Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

New Releases: Michael Sonenscher, “After Kant” (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Elisa Gremmo // Sep 21, 2023

We are glad to give notice of the new book After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought, by Michael Sonenscher (Princeton University Press, 2023).

From the publisher’s website:

In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or understand the results of the comparison? Kant’s question injected a new, future-oriented dimension into existing discussions of prevailing norms, challenging their orientation toward the past. This reversal made Kant’s question a bridge between three successive sets of arguments: between the supporters of the ancients and moderns, the classics and romantics, and the Romans and the Germans. Sonenscher argues that the genealogy of modern political ideologies—from liberalism to nationalism to communism—can be connected to the resulting discussions of time, history, and values, mainly in France but also in Germany, Switzerland, and Britain, in the period straddling the French and Industrial revolutions.

What is the genuinely human content of human history? Everything begins somewhere—democracy with the Greeks, or the idea of a res publica with the Romans—but these local arrangements have become vectors of values that are, apparently, universal. The intellectual upheaval that Sonenscher describes involved a struggle to close the gap, highlighted by Kant, between individual lives and human history. After Kant is an examination of that struggle’s enduring impact on the history and the historiography of political thought.

New Releases: Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant" (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Event: “Insieme per ricordare Pino Cantillo” (Napoli, 20 september 2023)

Giulia La Rocca // Sep 18, 2023

Diamo notizia dell’incontro Insieme per ricordare Pino Cantillo: studioso, amico, maestro, che si terrà mercoledì 20 novembre 2023, h. 11:00, presso l’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli e online.

Qui il link per la partecipazione via zoom.

Interverranno: Stefania Achella, Mariafilomena Anzalone, Gabriella Baptist, Fiorella Battaglia, Massimiliano Biscuso, Rossella Bonito Oliva, Giovanna Borrello, Clementina Cantillo, Marco Celentano, Pio Colonnello, Emilia D’Antuono, Anna Donise, Luca Illetterati, Berardo Impegno, Marco Ivaldo, Wolfgang Kaltenbacher, Fiorinda Li Vigni, Eugenio Mazzarella, Franco Miano, Orietta Ombrosi, Maria Letizia Pelosi, Luca Scafoglio, Daniela Sciarelli, Renata Viti Cavaliere, Paolo Vinci.