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Hegel får uventet – og formodentlig uønsket – støtte i diskussionen med Kierkegaard.

Man bør dog nok bemærke, at den primære kilde for Hitlers udlægning af Hegel og Kierkegaard synes at være Jostein Gaarders Sofies verden

The Many Colours of Hegelianism:
Hegel’s Philosophy and its Reception in an International Context

4-5 June, 2010

New College, Oxford

Keynote speakers
Professor Robert Stern (Sheffield), Professor Ludwig Siep (Münster)

Supported by the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Faculty of Philosophy, New College, and Trinity College, the conference will bring together scholars who work on Hegel’s thought and its reception in different cultural contexts.

While Hegel’s philosophy itself is an ongoing object of study in philosophy departments all over the world, his influence on the history of ideas, apart from the obvious influence on Marxism, has been less in focus. The political, social, and intellectual landscapes of different countries have influenced the ways in which thinkers have taken up Hegel’s philosophy, and influenced the choice of the aspects of his philosophy that were turned into different forms of “Hegelianism”.

In focusing on four cultural-geographic areas—the Anglo-American world, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Romantic countries, and the German-speaking countries and Scandinavia—the reception and further development of Hegel’s philosophy in different parts of the world will be considered in comparative perspective. We hope to bring out a common theme, or themes,
that unite Hegelianism in such different shapes as, for example, British Idealism, Russian mysticism and Kojève’s master-slave dialectics. A further focus will be on what Hegelianism means today, both in the academic field and in a wider cultural context.

Convenors: Robert Harris, New College; Lisa Herzog, New College; Sebastian Stein, St Hugh’s College.

Registration: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/

Advance registration is required and a registration fee of £20 for two days (student rate £10 for two days) will be payable. Registration will close at noon on Saturday 1 May. Please note that you will be informed by email when your place is confirmed. Please do not send payment until you
have received this email to confirm your place. Thank you.

Please note that the registration fee includes the cost of tea and coffee provided during morning and afternoon breaks. Lunch is not included in the registration fee.

2010 ISRLC Conference, University of Oxford

Abstracts are now being sought for a panel on German Idealism at the 2010 International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference taking place at the University of Oxford next September on the topic, “Attending to the Other: Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice”.

German Idealism and Religion Panel

Our contemporary preoccupations with self/other relations can be traced back directly to the German Idealist dialectic of Same and Other. The task of this panel will be to uncover critical theory’s presuppositions and prejudices on this topic by excavating their philosophical and theological origins in German Idealism. Questions that may be considered include: To what extent does Hegel’s master-slave dialectic still determine how we conceive the other? Did Kantian phenomenalism foreclose the possibility of experiencing otherness? Is Hölderlin’s expectant anticipation of the coming god an appropriate manner in which to attend to the other? The panel welcomes papers that focus not just on German Idealism narrowly considered (Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel), but also the various theologies, romanticisms and materialisms which emerged out of it in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as its legacy in contemporary critical and religious theories.

Deadline: March 30, 2010.

Please see the conference website: www.theology.ox.ac.uk/ISRLC for more details on submitting abstracts and the call for papers for other panels running at the conference (including critical theory and continental philosophy of religion).

Objective Spirit. Beyond recognition?
A NNGI conference
Helsinki, 30/10/2009 – 1/11/2009.
Department of philosophy, University of Helsinki

One of the most important areas of interest of German idealist thinkers – and in particular of Hegel and Fichte – was the objective spirit, encompassing social and political philosophy and the philosophy of history. Some of the most important debates in social and political philosophy at the 20th century can be traced back to the question whether the objective spirit should be interpreted in a social or in a political framework. Is it enough to define the “social” through recognition? Or are there social phenomena (or phenomena of being-in-common) that recognition cannot seize, and that lay “beyond recognition”? If it is so, is this an accidental injustice that can be abolished, or an irreducible factor of human coexistence? And should the “political” be defined as the irruption of something that is denied recognition? Is it better to think politics as conflict or as consensus? What are the ources of the political in today’s world? These are some of the themes that motivate the conference “The Objective Spirit. Beyond Recognition?”

The Nordic Network for German Idealism (NNGI) is a three-year research project funded by Nordforsk (the Nordic Research Board operating under the Nordic Council of ministers). The project organizes international conferences aiming at top-level esearch exchange and at research training for doctoral students from all of the five nordic countries. The project welcomes all research on German idealist philosophy, not only on Hegel, Fichte and Schelling but also on their heritage from Kierkegaard until today’s philosophy. The project’s more specific focus is to evaluate a central idea of German idealism, “die Geisteswissenschaften“, in today’s context.

The conference is free and open to all. No registration is required.

To see the full conference program (as a pdf file) click here.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 4th August

Hegel Society of Great Britain & UK Kierkegaard Society Joint Conference
3rd and 4th September 2009
St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Thursday, 3rd
1.00 – 1.30 Conference Registration

1.30 – 3.00 Clare Carlisle (Liverpool): Kierkeggard and the Question of Motion: The Sphere of Thought and the Sphere of Freedom

3.30 – 5.00 Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton): Kierkegaard contra Hegel on the “Absolute Paradox”

5.30 – 7.00 George Pattison (Oxford): Antigone and the End of Art

Friday, 4th
9.30 – 11.00 Paul Cruysberghs (KU Leuven): Soul-Consciousness-Mind in Hegel, Rosenkranz and Kierkegaard

11.30 – 1.00 Dan Watts (Essex): Subjective Thinking: Kierkegaard on Hegel’s Socrates

2.00 – 3.30 Jon Stewart (Copenhagen): Kierkegaard’s Notion of Actuality and the Criticism of Hegelian Abstraction

Registration forms are obtainable from the Hegel Society of Great Britain website:

http://www.hsgb.group.shef.ac.uk/conference.html.

Please register by 4th August. For further details, please contact: Dr Thom Brooks, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU or phone: (0191) 222 5288 or email t.brooks@newcastle.ac.uk

Gode Idealister

Kredsens Centralkomité er, på vanlig indspist, formynderisk og diktatorisk facon, nået til enighed om, at det er til Kredsens bedste, at fortsætte det tætte studie af Hegels skrifter. “Kilder Der Mener at Vide Hvad der Foregår” har derfor ladet sive, at Centralkomitéen foreslår/dekreterer, at efterårets program bliver en læsning af Retsfilosofien.

Argumentet for dette valg er dels, at læsning af Retsfilosofien hører med til den almindelige filosofiske dannelsesproces, og dels at det vil give nytilkomne en mulighed for at hoppe med på Hegel-vognen, da Retsfilosofien jo (alt andet lige) må siges at høre til Hegels mere populære og læsevenlige værker. Et nærmere program for læsningen forventes udarbejdet og udsendt medio august.

Eventuelle modforslag, indvendinger, klager, protester og andre Kredsundergravende aktiviteter vil som sædvanligt blive summarisk og systematisk ignoreret, men skulle man alligevel have lyst til at kommentere på Centralkomitéens beslutning, kan man gøre det på Kredsens blog. Man kan desuden give sin mening til kende ved at afgive sin stemme på den til bloggen hørende afstemningsfunktion (ude til højre).

Grüss Gott!

CALL FOR PAPERS:

HEGEL AND GERMAN IDEALISM

Graduate Student Conference
University of Notre Dame
March 6-8, 2009

Deadline for Submission: December 15, 2008

Invited Speakers:
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Franks, University of Toronto

Graduate students of the Notre Dame philosophy department invite papers relating to the philosophy of Hegel and the tradition of German Idealism. This conference, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, is designed to provide graduate students in philosophy and all areas of the humanities the opportunity to present research on issues related to the philosophical and historical roots, development, and impact of Hegel’s philosophy and German Idealism.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The philosophical origins of German Idealism (in Kant, the post-Kantians, the Romantics, etc…).

• 19th century critiques of Hegel and German Idealism.

• Influence of Hegel/ German Idealism on 19th and/or 20th century political developments.

• The impact of Hegel/ German Idealism on contemporary philosophy.

• The revival of interest in Hegel and German Idealism in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Papers should be suitable for 20-minute presentation (10-12 pages) and should be submitted in blind review format. Deadline for submission is December 15, 2008. Please include author’s name, title, and institutional affiliation in email. Notifications will be made no later than February 1, 2009. Selected presenters will be provided with
meals and campus hotel accommodations for the conference.

Submissions and questions should be emailed to hegel.graduateconference@gmail.com.

For more details, please visit our website: http://nanovic.nd.edu/hegel.html

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the University of Notre Dame Graduate School.

Monokl-Cogito International Hegel Congress
Bahçeşehir University (Beşiktaş Campus)
14-16 November 2008

Full program details
Word: http://kongre.monokl.net/dosyalar/scheduleENG.doc
Pdf: http://kongre.monokl.net/dosyalar/scheduleENG.pdf
Conference homepage: http://kongre.monokl.net/?pages=KongreOturumBasliklari

Wolfgang Welsch
“Reconsidering Hegel’s Idealism”

Klaus Vieweg
“Hegel über die Einheit von theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie”

Ralf Beuthan
“Erfahrung und spekulatives Denken”

Claus Arthur Scheier
“Die Logik von Rousseaus zweitem Discours und Hegels “Wissenschaft der Erfahrung des Bewusstseyns“”

Çetin Türkyılmaz
“Hegel on the Concept of Realization”

Tom Rockmore
“Is Hegel’s Phenomenology phenomenological?”

Robert Stern
“Is Hegel’s Dialectic of Self-Consciousness in the Phenomenology a Refutation of Solipsism?”

Kenneth R. Westphal
“Hegel’s Phenomenological Critique of the Content of our Categories: a conspectus”

Wolfgang Bonsiepen
“Die Phänomenologie des Geistes im Kontext der Denkentwicklung Hegels in der
Jenaer Zeit”

Dietmar Heidemann
“The Method of Skepticism in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit”

David Gray Carlson
“The Role of Fear in Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic”

Sebastian Roedl
“Hegel’s concept of the idea”

Italo Testa
“Spirit and Habit”

Matthias Haussler
“Some implications of The Phenomenology of Spirit for Hegel´s subsequent system(s)”

Klaus Brinkmann
“Does Hegel’s System need The Phenomenology of Spirit?”

Dr Barry Stocker Assistant Professor
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Science and Letters
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
34469 Maslak
Istanbul
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Visit my blog Bosphorus Reflections at http://istanbulfactsandideas.blogspot.com/ in partnership with www.factsandideas.com a website of links in Current Affairs, Arts, and Philosophy.

Translating Hegel
The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy

Conference at the Goethe Institute, Stockholm
September 5-7, 2008

What is the place of Hegel’s philosophy, in particular, his main work, The Phenomenology of Spirit, in contemporary thought? Should we “translate” the concepts of German Idealism – subject, substance, spirit, negativity, to name but a few – into modern terms, and if so, which terms would be the most relevant: phenomenology, deconstruction, critical theory, analytical philosophy? Or does such a translation in fact amount to a flattening of historical depth, a foreshortening of perspective that deprives thought of its productive distance and difference in relation to the present? Could “translating” in fact be taken as something other than a mere transposition of one vocabulary into another, i.e., can it allow for a kind of transformation of both the present and the past?

The conference brings together eminent Hegel scholars from Germany, the U.S., France, Finland, and Sweden, and is taking place on the occasion of the publication of the first Swedish translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, by Brian Manning Delaney and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, to be published by Thales.

For further information, see: www.hegel.se

Friday
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire in General’ (‘Begierde überhaupt’)
Robert Pippin (Chicago)

Saturday
10:00 – 11:00
The Self-Consciousness of Consciousness
Walter Jaeschke (Bochum)

11:00 – 12:00
Hegel’s Theory of Freedom
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown)

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
From Finite Thinking to Infinite Spirit: How to Encounter Hegel after Heidegger’s Translation?
Susanna Lindberg (Helsinki)

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Some Problems and Perspectives
Carl-Göran Heidegren (Lund)

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Place of Art in the Phenomenology
Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Stockholm)

Sunday
10:00-11:00
Understanding as Translation: How to Read Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig)

11:00-12:00
From Gewissheit to Infinity
Staffan Carlshamre (Stockholm)

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Hegel and Exposure
Victoria Fareld (Gothenburg)

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Title to be announced
Brian Manning Delaney (Stockholm)

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
French Losses in Translating Hegel: A Heuristic Benefit?
Jean-Pierre Lefebvre (Paris)

Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Instituto Cervantes, Södertörn University College, the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen), and the Swedish Hegel Society.

Free admission. The number of seats is limited. In order to guarantee a place, please email: hegel@stockholm.goethe.org

Goethe-Institut, Bryggargatan 12 A, Stockholm. Metro: T-centralen.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/562tbh

Se plakat for konferencen her.

Hegel Society of Great Britain Annual Conference.
1st and 2nd September 2008
St Edmund Hall, Oxford

HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRIT

Conference Programme

Monday, 1st
1.00 – 1.30 Conference Registration

1.30 – 3.00 Robert Williams (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Recognition and Self-Actualization in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit

3.00 – 3.30 Tea/coffee

3.30 – 5.00 Michael Wolff (University of Bielefeld)
Tbc

5.00 – 5.30 Break

5.30 – 7.00 John Burbridge (Trent University)
Transforming Representations into Thoughts and Thoughts into Concepts

7.30 Dinner

Tuesday, 2nd
9.30 – 11.00 Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
Naturalism in Ethics and Hegel’s Distinction Between Subjective and Objective
Spirit

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee/tea

11.30 – 1.00 Marina Bykova (North Carolina State University)
The Problem of Intersubjectivity in the Encyclopedia Phenomenology

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)
Hegel, Mind, and Mechanism: Why Machines Have No Psyche, Consciousness, Nor
Intelligence

Registration forms will be obtainable shortly from the Hegel Society of Great Britain website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/groups/hsgb.

For further details, please contact:
Dr Thom Brooks
Department of Politics
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Telephone: (0191) 222 5288
E-mail: t.brooks@newcastle.ac.uk

* Closing date for registration is 10th August 2008 *
We will not accept registrations after this date.

GERMAN PHILOSOPHY SINCE KANT

Tenth Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference

University of Southampton, Avenue Campus

7 June 2008

10.00–11.30 – Lecture Theatre C (1175):
- The Meaning of the Question of Being: Wittgenstein and Heidegger Converse – Prof. Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)

11.45–12.55 – Room 1095:
- Deviant Dasein and Heidegger’s Dasein: The Two-Way Street between German
and French Philosophy – Miles Kennedy (Galway)
- Mind, World and Being: McDowell and Heidegger – Dave Dineen (Cork)

11.45–12.55 – Room 1097:
- Every Dogma has its Day: Frege, Carnap and Analyticity – Pål Antonsen (Trinity College Dublin)
- Nietzsche: the Art of History – Allison Merrick (Southampton)

12.55–2.35: Lunch, The Crown Inn

2.35–3.45 – Room 1095:

- Recognition, Freedom and Subjectivity in Hegel’s Ethics – Matthew Bennett (Essex)
- Nietzsche, Freedom and Writing Lives – Tom Stern (Cambridge)

2.35–3.45 – Room 1097:

- (On Nietzsche: Title to be announced) – Dan Clifford (Southampton)
- Metacritique in Adorno: Marx, Nietzsche and the Natural History of Pure Reason – Craig Reeves (Kings College London)

4.15–5.25 – Room 1095:
- Schelling’s Struggle with Teleology - Daniel Whistler (Oxford)
- Nietzsche’s Perfect State - Hugo Halferty Drochon (Cambridge)

4.15–5.25 – Room 1097:
- Nietzsche’s Concept of Affirmative Life – Katrina Mitchseon (Warwick)
- The Will to Power and the Slave Revolt - Olivia Bailey (Oxford)

Registration free

Contact: Adam Dunn (agd205@soton.ac.uk) or Dan Clifford (djc302@soton.ac.uk)

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

PRESENTS

TRUTH AND FALSITY

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEGEL’S SYSTEMATIC THOUGHT

  THURSDAY 29 – FRIDAY 30 MAY 2008 

(Social Studies Building, Ground Floor, SO.21)  

“True and false belong among those determinate notions which are held to be inert and wholly separate essences, one here and one there, each standing fixed and isolated from the other, with which it has nothing in common. Against this view it must be maintained that truth is not a minted coin that can be given and pocketed ready-made. Nor is there such a thing as the false, any more than there is something evil.”  Hegel, Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit

“Proof is, in general, mediated cognition. The various kinds of being demand or imply their own kind of mediation, so that the nature of proof, too, will differ in respect of each.” Hegel, Science of Logic

Speculative systematic philosophy is known for making a bold claim for an absolute knowledge of what there is in truth. Notoriously, however, philosophers working in the tradition of European philosophy still disagree as to the nature of this claim: Does Hegel mean that philosophy can produce a corpus of indisputable knowledge which exemplifies aspects of things, states-of-affairs or events as they are in themselves? What domain of objects or aspects of the real would this knowledge cover? What would be the ontological, epistemological or logical status of those objects or aspects of objects that are left outside of such knowledge? Even the dynamic and developmental structure of the speculative system seems to imply that a notion of absolute falsity must be operative in it, as Michael Theunissen (Sein und Schein) has already pointed out. Moreover, if the speculative system is the sole provider of truth what would be the significance of those other areas of philosophical thinking which occupy the greatest part of the Hegelian corpus, such as for example aesthetics, political philosophy, history of philosophy and philosophy of history? The Warwick Hegel Conference 2008 aims to clarify and hopefully provide specific solutions to these questions and problems.

SPEAKERS

Paul Franks (Toronto): All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Argument and Systematicity in German Idealism

Stephen Houlgate (Warwick): Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics; The Opening of Hegel’s Logic; An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History

Anton Koch (Tübingen): Subjectivity in Space and Time; An Inquiry on Truth and Time; Truth, Time and Freedom: An Introduction to a Philosophical Theory

Angelica Nuzzo (City University of New York): Kant and the Unity of Reason

Robert Pippin (Chicago): The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath; Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations; Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Kant’s Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason

Robert Stern (Sheffield): Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism: Answering the Question of Justification; Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object; Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit; Transcedental Arguments: Problems and Prospects)

See detailed program here. 

ORGANIZED BY:

• Professor Stephen Houlgate
• Ioannis Trisokkas
• Lee Watkins                                                                                          
• Sebastian Stein                                                                                             

CONTACT

I.D.Trisokkas@warwick.ac.uk

Idealismekredsens gode bekendte, Lektor Jørn Erslev Andersen, der just til gårsdagens møde havde sin dåb som officiel Kredsmøde-deltager, har været så venlig at tilskikke bloggen en af sine artikler, med samt tilladelse til at denne kan lægges online. Såfremt man har lyst kan man derfor, ved at klikke her, læse ÆD DIG SELV! Om Max Stirners selv-absorption, der bl.a. skulle rumme nogle betragtninger over Den ene/Hiin enkelte og Hegels systemfilosofi.

PH.D.-GRADEN
OFFENTLIGT FORSVAR

Ph.d.-studerende Carsten Fogh Nielsen

Med henblik på erhvervelsen af ph.d.-graden i filosofi forsvares ph.d.-afhandlingen

”Etisk dannelse – prolegomena til en nutidig teori”.

Fredag d. 22. februar 2008 kl. 13 prc.

Richard Mortensen Stuen

Studenternes Hus, Frederik Nielsensvej

Bedømmelsesudvalget:
-Lektor Steen Brock, Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet (formand).
-Professor Robert Louden, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Main, USA.
-Professor Emeritus Peter Kemp, Institut for Pædagogisk Filosofi, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole, Aarhus Universitet.

Hovedvejleder:
-Docent Hans Fink, Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet.

Resumé af afhandlingen:
Igennem det meste af det 20. århundrede er etisk dannelse, dvs. spørgsmålet hvordan mennesker udvikler sig til at blive moralsk kompetente væsner, blevet ignoreret af den engelsksprogede moralfilosofi. Først med dydsetikkens genkomst er der indenfor de seneste 10-15 år atter kommet filosofisk fokus på dette spørgsmål.

Afhandlingens hovedtese er, at den nutidige diskussion af etisk dannelse i alt for høj grad er blevet ført på dydsetikkens præmisser, og at en bredere filosofisk tilgang er påkrævet. Igennem læsninger af Aristoteles og Sabina Lovibond argumenteres der for, at den dominerende aristotelisk-inspirerede dydsetiske tilgang til etisk dannelse har problemer med at redegøre for, hvorledes mennesket udvikler en evne til kritisk at kunne distancere sig fra gældende værdier og normer. Som et muligt korrektiv til den aristoteliske tilgang peges der i afhandlingen på Kant, hvis ofte oversete bemærkninger om dannelsens betydning underkastes en nærmere undersøgelse. I sidste kapitel argumenteres der slutteligt for, at etisk dannelse er en proces, hvorigennem det menneskelige subjekt på en og samme tid påtvinges en bestemt kohærent, enhedslig form og bliver splittet imod sig selv, og Schillers dannelsesteori fremhæves som en mulig, frugtbar måde at tænke om denne proces på.

Afhandlingen er fremlagt på Afdeling for Filosofi.

Afhandlingen samt længere resuméer på hhv. dansk og engelsk kan desuden downloades her.

PH.D.-GRADEN
OFFENTLIGT FORSVAR

Ph.d.-studerende Simon Laumann Jørgensen

Med henblik på erhvervelsen af ph.d.-graden i filosofi forsvares ph.d.-afhandlingen

”Selvværd – forudsætning for og trussel mod det humane samfund”.

Fredag d. 15. februar 2008 kl. 13 prc.

Richard Mortensen Stuen

Studenternes Hus, Frederik Nielsensvej

Bedømmelsesudvalget:
-Docent Hans Fink, Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet, (formand).
-Research Lecturer Joel Anderson, Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, Holland.
-Lektor Peter Wolsing, Institut for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Religionsstudier, Syddansk Universitet.

Hovedvejleder:
-Lektor Morten Raffnsøe-Møller, Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet.

Resumé af afhandlingen:
Denne afhandling er et forsøg på at bidrage til vores forståelse af de moralpsykologiske mekanismer, der underligger et humant samfund generelt og mere specifikt til vores forståelse af de moralpsykologier, der er udviklet af Martha C. Nussbaum, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, og G.W.F. Hegel. Målet er at vise relevansen af en specifik moralpsykologisk tilgang til spørgsmålene om truslerne mod og betingelserne for stabiliteten af det humane samfund herunder idealet om respekt for alles lige værdighed. Den specifikke moralpsykologiske tilgang centrerer sig om hvordan menneskers mangfoldige måder at søge at grundlægge deres selvværd (fx gennem anerkendelse og stigmatisering) potentielt er både trussel og forudsætning for det humane samfund og individers motivation til at respektere andre.

Min kritik af Nussbaums moralpsykologiske model (del 1) motiverer min undersøgelse af Smiths, Rousseaus og Hegels modeller (del 2). Her viser det sig (del 3) at deres forståelse af de grundlag for selvværd, der henholdsvis truer og motiverer respekt, både kan rette op på begrænsninger i Nussbaums model og tillige kan vise tidligere uiagttagede ressourcer i hendes ‘capabilities approach.’ I det jeg læner mig mest op af Hegels model, er det nødvendigt at konfrontere to centrale udfordringer, som de øvrige modeller præsenterer ham for (del 4).

Afhandlingen er fremlagt på Afdeling for Filosofi.

Først de gode nyheder. Under overskriften The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking har Cosmos and History, et næsten nystartet filosofisk online tidsskrift, netop publiceret et stort temanummer om Hegels tænkning. Blandt bidragyderne til nummeret finder man kompetente folk som H.S. Harris, Karin de Boer, John Burbidge og Angelica Nuzzo, samt en mængde andre mindre kendte navne, hvis filosofiske kvaliteter jeg ikke kan udtale mig om. Artiklerne spænder vidt: Fra analyser af Logikken, over diskussioner af Kierkegaards, Derridas og Agambens forhold til Hegel, til spørgsmålet om den hegelianske filosofis relevans i dag. Der burde kort sagt være noget for enhver smag.

Og så de virkeligt gode nyheder. Cosmos and History er et open access tidsskrift, hvilket betyder, at alle artiklerne kvit og frit kan downloades fra tidsskriftets hjemmeside.

Enjoy

CALL FOR PAPERS
PHILOSOPHY OF SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT
For the Twentieth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America
Columbia, South Carolina
October 24-26, 2008
Deadline for Submission of Papers: February 15, 2008

The Hegel Society solicits papers on a variety of topics connected with the theme of Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. Papers interpreting, or engaging in dialogue with, Hegel’s work on topics treated in Hegel’s lectures and writings on subjective spirit will be welcomed for consideration by the Program Committee. Especially welcome are papers that explore the 1827-28 lectures on the philosophy of spirit (ed. F. Hespe & B. Tuschling [Felix Meiner, 1994]), forthcoming in an English translation by Robert R. Williams (Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827-8, Oxford University Press, summer 2007).

Submitted papers are limited to 6,000 words (i.e., about 23 double-spaced pages at 260 words per page). All papers will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee, under the direction of the Program Chair, and the format should be appropriate for such a review process. An abstract of 100 words, accompanied by a short list of principal texts used, must be submitted with the paper. Papers submitted must be complete essays; proposals are not acceptable. Papers accepted for the program must require no more than 40 minutes for presentation.

Fordham University offers the Quentin Lauer Travel Stipend, a $300 grant, for a young scholar whose paper is selected in this process. To qualify as a “young scholar,” the author must be a full-time or part-time M.A. or Ph.D. student at the time of the submission deadline. If more than one young scholar qualifies, the stipend will be awarded to the author of the paper judged best by the Program Committee.

Please send four hard copies and one disk copy (Word or RTF) of the materials to:

David S. Stern, Program Chair
Hamline University
MS-A1775
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
U.S.A.

Although papers presented at meetings of the Hegel Society of America are usually published as a collection of essays, publication cannot be guaranteed. By submitting a paper, however, the author agrees to reserve publication for the HSA Proceedings if the paper is accepted for the program, and if the program is accepted for publication.