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Classical german philosophy. University of Padova research group

Event: Workshop with Haris Papoulias and Gabriele Schimmenti (Santiago de Chile, 10 and 12 August, 2026)

francesco campana // Aug 10, 2026

We are pleased to give notice a workshop with Haris Papoulias (UCM, Madrid) and Gabriele Schimmenti (Università Telematica Pegaso), which will take place on August 10 and 12 at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez in Santiago de Chile.

Monday, August 10, 4:00 p.m.

Haris Papoulias: “De Bizancio a Patagonia: la iconofobia como problema filosófico”
Presented by Angelo Narváez

Wednesday, August 12 | 4:00 p.m.

Gabriele Schimmenti: “The Fate of Tragedy and the Tragedy of Fate. The concept of collision in Hegel and Marx”
Presented by Italo Debernardi

The event is free of charge, but registration is required; please email anarvaez@ucsh.cl

For further information, please visit the dedicated event page.

Event: Workshop with Haris Papoulias and Gabriele Schimmenti

New Release: Hegel-Jahrbuch “Geist der Kunst und Kultur” (1/2023)

Mattia Megli // Jul 27, 2026

We are pleased to announce the release of the new issue of Hegel-Jahrbuch (1/2023), entitled Geist der Kunst und Kultur.

Editor of this volume, published by Duncker & Humblot, are Brady Bowman, Holden Kelm, and Jure Zovko.

For further information, please visit the publisher’s website.

New Release: Hegel-Jahrbuch "Geist der Kunst und Kultur" (1/2023)

New Release: Terry Pinkard, “Hegel, Dewey, Democracy” (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Mattia Megli // Jul 13, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Hegel, Dewey, Democracy, by Terry Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

From the publisher’s website:

Hegel referred to Geist as ‘self-conscious life’ as a being which exists within a ‘web’ of sense it spins for itself both collectively and individually. As Geist collectively develops itself in history and in theory, it ties ‘knots’ in various parts of its web which then form the settled basis for further progress. John Dewey spoke of the fundamental ‘deposits’ laid down in history in the same way Hegel spoke of ‘knots.’ Both Hegel and Dewey thought that the kinds of obligations necessary in modern political life could only be actualized in terms of a larger conception of the good life individually and collectively led. However, Dewey argued that given the fact of democracy as a ‘way of life’ and not merely a form of government was the necessary replacement for Hegel’s concept of Sittlichkeit (ethical life) as the living good in which the watchword is freedom.

New Release: Terry Pinkard, "Hegel, Dewey, Democracy" (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

New Release: G.W.F. Hegel, “Ciencia de la lógica”, transl. by M. Jiménez Redondo (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2026)

Giulia La Rocca // Jul 8, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the release of a new Spanish translation of Hegel’s Ciencia de la lógica by Manuel Jiménez Redondo and edited by Sandra Navalón and Iñigo Baca Bordons (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2026).

From the publisher’s website:

La obra de Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) constituye una cúspide de la filosofía clásica alemana. Su recorrido se ve atravesado por la Revolución Francesa, las guerras napoleónicas y el fervor intelectual del romanticismo en Jena, hasta culminar en la década final de su vida con célebres cursos impartidos en la Universidad de Berlín. La presente obra, Ciencia de la lógica, se sitúa en el punto medio de este itinerario y supone la piedra angular que vertebra el resto de su obra filosófica. El presente volumen reúne la segunda edición de la «Doctrina del ser» (1832) y las versiones originales de la «Doctrina de la esencia» (1813) y la «Doctrina del concepto» (1816).
La traducción fue llevada a cabo por Manuel Jiménez Redondo (1947-2024), profesor emérito de la Universitat de València, reconocido por sus traducciones y estudios sobre Kant, Hegel, Heidegger y Habermas.

For further information, please visit the publisher’s webiste.

New Release: G.W.F. Hegel, "Ciencia de la lógica", transl. by M.J. Redondo (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2026)

International Conference: “Conatus – Self-determination – Subjectivity – Hegel and/or/with Spinoza” (Heidelberg, 8-9 July, 2026)

Giulia Bernard // Jul 6, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the International Conference Conatus – Self-determination – Subjectivity – Hegel and/or/with Spinoza, which will take place at Heidelberg University (Hörsaal 04a, Neue Universität, Universitätsplatz 1), on July 8-9, 2026.

The conference is organized by Julia Peters and Oliver Toth; it is funded by the DFG and is part of the project „Conatus, Trieb und die Erkenntnis der Freiheit: Spinozas Einfluss auf Hegels praktische Philosophie“.

To attend the conference, please write to oliver.toth@uni-heidelberg.de.

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

Below you can find the program of the event.

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Wednesday, 8th of July

9:45 Welcome, coffee

10:00 Ursula Renz (Graz): Spinozean acquiescientia in se ipso vs. Hegelian Reconciliation

11:30 Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins): Spinoza and Hegel on Self-Negation

13:30 Misa Sanada (Nagoya): From Conatus to Being-with-Oneself-in-Another: Mendelssohn, Jacobi, and the Path from Spinoza to Hegel

15:00 Bojana Jovićević (Ljubljana): Knowledge and Action in Spinoza’s Ethics and Hegel’s Logic

16:30 Julia Peters (Heidelberg): Privatio nihil est? Hegel’s Critique of Spinoza on Negative Affect

17:45 Birgit Sandkaulen (Bochum): Wie passt das Theorem des conatus zu Hegels negativistischer Spinozalektüre?

Thursday, 9th of July

10:00 Oliver Toth (Heidelberg): Sensory and rational principles of action in Spinoza and Hegel

11:30 Jack Stetter (Louisiana State/South Florida): State Individuality and War in Spinoza and Hegel

13:30 Martin Saar (Frankfurt): Hegel or Spinoza? Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity and “Transindividuality”

15:00 Ana-Silvia Munte (Tübingen): Spinoza’s Conatus and Hegel’s Stocking: Why a Mended Self-Consciousness is Worse than a Torn One

16:30 James Kreines (Claremont McKenna): Philosophy of Action and Priority of the Practical, Without Human-Perspective-Defensive Reasoning: Spinoza’s Conatus and Hegel’s Self-Determination

20:00 Screening of the movie “Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher” Gloriette Cinema, Hauptstraße 146, 69117 Heidelberg

Followed by a podium discussion “Spinoza and the Good Life” with the director of the film David Ofek, and Michael Engel (Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies), Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), Ursula Renz (Graz) on the therapeutic role of Spinoza’s philosophy, moderated by Julia Peters (Heidelberg).

New Release: Dina Emundts, “Hegel’s Dialectic” (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Mattia Megli // Jul 6, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Hegel’s Dialectic, by Dina Emundts (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

From the publisher’s website:

This element is a study on Hegel’s dialectic. One motivation for turning to dialectic is the idea that in order to understand the complex and dynamic structure of reality and of our thinking itself, we need a different way of thinking from that provided by standard logic and by traditional philosophy. The aim of the book is to present Hegel’s basic idea of dialectic and to explain it through an interpretation of the text, an account of its reception, and a survey of themes in the secondary literature. The main theses discussed are that Hegel’s dialectic is primarily a method of thinking and that he develops a unified theory of dialectic in his various writings.

New Release: Dina Emundts, "Hegel's Dialectic" (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

New Release: Annette Sell (ed.), “Krankheit um 1800. Philosophische, medizinische und psychologische Krankheitskonzepte im Kontext des Verhältnisses von Körper und Geist” (frommann-holzboog, 2026)

Barbara Santini // Jul 1, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Krankheit um 1800. Philosophische, medizinische und psychologische Krankheitskonzepte im Kontext des Verhältnisses von Körper und Geist, edited by Annette Sell (frommann-holzboog, 2026).

From the publisher’s website:

Der Begriff der Krankheit spielt im philosophischen, medizinischen und psychologischen Diskurs um 1800 in Europa eine bedeutende Rolle. Ein Tenor ist dabei der Fortschrittsgedanke, der theoretisch als Wissenszuwachs gewertet wird und praktisch im Sinne neuer Heilungsmöglichkeiten zu sehen ist. In diesem Kontext entwickelt sich auch eine Nomenklatur von Krankheiten. Ein neuer Fokus wird auf das Verhältnis von Körper und Geist gelegt. Es zeigt sich vor allem, dass die Krankheitskonzepte interdisziplinär miteinander verbunden sind. Dieser interdisziplinäre Zusammenhang wird in den Beiträgen des vorliegenden Bandes von renommierten Wissenschaftler*innen untersucht.

Below you can fin the Table of Contents

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Annette Sell, Krankheit um 1800 in Medizin, Psychologie und Philosophie. Ein Überblick mit dem Fokus auf das Körper-Geist-Verhältnis

Andreas Heinz / Selin Icoez, Wahnsinn und Wahnwitz in Kants Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht

Kay Herrmann, Jakob Friedrich Fries: Philosophisches, medizinisches und psychologisches Krankheitskonzept im Kontext des Verhältnisses von Körper und Geist

Werner E. Gerabek, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schellings Krankheitsbegriff während der Zeit der Romantik

Dietrich von Engelhardt, Hegel und die Medizin – Gesundheit, Krankheit, Therapie, Tod

Allegra de Laurentiis, Psychosomatics in Hegel’s Anthropology

Andreas J. Fallgatter, Psychische Erkrankungen um 1800 am Beispiel Friedrich Hölderlins

Philippe Huneman, Between Nosology and Psychiatry. ›L’Aliénation‹ and Disease According to Philippe Pinel

Florian Funer, Die naturphilosophische Neuausrichtung der Nosologie um 1800. Krankheit von Körper und Geist bei Andreas Röschlaub

Holger Steinberg, Johann Christian August Heinroths Konzept psychischer Krankheit

Reinhard J. Boerner, Franz Anton Mesmers (1734–1815) ›magnetische Kur‹. Ein neues umstrittenes Heilverfahren zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik im Widerstreit zwischen Theorie und Empirie

Burkhart Brückner, Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862): Psychiatrischer Krankheitsbegriff, Geschichte und Politik im Vormärz

Martin Dinges, Krankheitskonzepte informierter Laien in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Bettine und Achim von Arnim

New Release: Annette Sell (ed.), "Krankheit um 1800. Philosophische, medizinische und psychologische Krankheitskonzepte im Kontext des Verhältnisses von Körper und Geist" (frommann-holzboog, 2026)

Event: Workshop with Daniel Sutherland

Giovanni Mezzavilla // Jun 28, 2026

We are glad to give notice of a Workshop with Daniel Sutherland, which will take place Monday 13. July 2026 at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Unter den Linden 6, Room 1085).

The workshop follows a pre-read format. The papers will be circulated ten days in advance. To participate, please register via christoph.von.villiez@hu-berlin.de.

For further information please visit the website of the event.

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Program

10:00 – 10:15 Arrival

10:00 – 12:45 Session 1: The Role of Intuition in Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Concepts, Judgments, and Inferences

Commentary by Anqi Fu (HU Berlin) and Christoph von Villiez (HU Berlin)

General Q&A

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 – 16:15 Session 2: Kant on the Nature of Schemata and Number as Schema

Commentary by Fearghus Horan (John Hopkins University)

General Q&A

New Release: Isaac von Sinclair, “Philosophische Raisonnements” (Brill, 2026)

Barbara Santini // Jun 27, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume Philosophische Raisonnements, by Isaac von Sinclair, edited by Francesco Campana, Johannes Korngiebel, and Klaus Vieweg (Brill, 2026).

From the publisher’s website:

Isaac von Sinclair war eine bedeutende und vielseitige Persönlichkeit der Zeit um 1800: Er war Diplomat, Politiker, Dichter, Dramatiker und Philosoph, war einer der originellsten Fichte-Schüler und Freund von Hölderlin und Hegel im Frankfurter ‚Bund der Geister‘. Seine sogenannten Philosophischen Raisonnements stellen Dieter Henrich zufolge „eines der wesentlichsten Dokumente aus der Frühgeschichte des Idealismus“ dar. Ausgehend von Fichte und Spinoza bietet der Text einen genauso faszinierenden wie komplexen philosophischen Entwurf, der für die weitere Entwicklung der klassischen deutschen Philosophie von erheblichem Gewicht war. Die hier veröffentlichte Ausgabe des Textes basiert zum ersten Mal direkt auf dem Originalmanuskript.

The Table of Contents is available at this link.

New Release: Isaac von Sinclair, "Philosophische Raisonnements" (Brill, 2026) 1

Book Symposium: G. Anthony Bruno, “Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant” (Padova, 29 June 2026)

Mattia Megli // Jun 24, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the Book Symposium on G. Anthony Bruno‘s Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant (Oxford University Press, 2025), which will take place on June 29, 2026, at the University of Padova (Sala Giacon, Piazza Capitaniato 3), from 9.30 am to 5.00 pm.

The event, organized by Luca Corti (University of Padova) and Yady Oren (University of Padova), has received funding from the EU program Horizon 2025 (Grant agreement N. 101152635).

Participants: Luca Corti, Giacomo Gambaro, David Hereza Modrego, Yady Oren, Gaetano Rametta, Barbara Santini.

For further information, please contact: luca.corti@unipd.it; yehuda.oren@unipd.it.

Below you can find the program of the event.

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Program

9.30 – 9.45: Yady Oren and Luca Corti, Welcome and Introduction

9.45 – 10.05: G. Anthony Bruno, Introducing Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant

10.05 – 10.55: Gaetano Rametta, Fichte and the Problem of Facticity
Chair: Giovanna Luciano

11.10 – 12.00: Yady Oren, Hegel on the Nullification of Facticity and the Origin of the Categories
Chair: Davide Puzzolo

12.15 – 13.05: Barbara Santini, Schelling, Existence, and Contingency
Chair: Giulia Bernard

14.30 – 15.20: Giacomo Gambaro, Lask, Heidegger, and the Hermeneutics of Facticty
Chair: Marco Bonutto

15.35 – 16.25: David Hereza Modrego, Heidegger and the Culmination of Philosophy
Chair: Luca Corti

New Release: Philippe Huneman, “When Metaphysics Meets Biology. Kantian Approaches to the Concept of Organism” (Routledge, 2026)

Mattia Megli // Jun 24, 2026

We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume When Metaphysics Meets Biology. Kantian Approaches to the Concept of Organism, by Philippe Huneman (Routledge, 2026).

From the publisher’s website:

This book explains the background and meaning of Kant’s account of the life sciences in the Critique of the Power of Judgement by reading the development of Kant’s ideas on the living since his 1763 precritical essays, in parallel with analyzing several milestones in the constitution of the concept of organism as a self-organized totality, studied by biology.

This parallel reading frames Kant’s account of biology against influential theories developed by earlier scientists and naturalists, including Leibniz, Stahl, French vitalists, Albrecht von Haller, Caspar Wolff, and Buffon, as well as his almost contemporaries such as Goethe and Cuvier. It reveals that Kant’s inquiry about teleological judgment ties in with important advances in his time about the organism as an integrated, functioning, and self-organizing entity. It explains how Kant’s idea of purposiveness, formulated in the context of a metaphysical inquiry about the order of the world and its knowledge, hence of contingency generaliter, became detached from the notion of intention, thus ascribing it a new meaning tied to autonomous biological practice. Then, considering 19th-century biologists, it provides the genealogy of a post-Darwinian theoretical space in which biologists formulate complementary or competing accounts of organisms as developmental systems in evolution and within which theoretical cleavages are generated. It thereby explains how the two theoretical trends known as form-centered and function-centered biology, now defined as “developmental” and “adaptationist“ viewpoints, emerged as two distinct perspectives from a concept of “natural purposiveness” unified by Kant’s transcendental perspective; then it unravels the way they currently articulate, against the background of their genesis.

When Metaphysics Meets Biology offers a philosophical interpretation of the emergence of biology in relation to Kant’s thinking and sheds light on the philosophical issues currently embedded within the conceptual structure of biology. It is of interest to philosophers of biology and philosophers interested in metaphysics and its history.

The Table of Contents is available at this link.