II SEMINAR FOR CLASSICAL GERMAN PHILOSOPHY

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The II Seminar for Classical German Philosophy invites you to submit an abstract for a talk proposal to the event, which will occur at Federal University of Mato Grosso, city of Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.

We accept talk proposals that are products of academic research and are related to German Classical Philosophy, understood as philosophy written in German language between Leibniz and the death of Hegel.

We encourage different kinds of approaches, being they interpretative, historiographic, contemporary re-interpretations of philosophers of German Classical Philosophy, as well as re-interpretations focused on contemporary problems and concepts.

About the II Seminar on Classical German Philosophy

This Seminar is a continuation of the “I Seminar on Classical Philosophy at UFJF”, organized with the research groups “Dialética”, “Iluminismo à Contraluz” and “NUFCAL – Núcleo de Pesquisas em Filosofia Clássica Alemã”. This edition brings an extension of the event, in a way to think it as a continuous and national event in its organization.

The main purpose of this Seminar is to bring together researchers on the wide topic of Classical German Philosophy, considering philosophical works in German language produced during the first half of 18th Century until half of 19th Century. In this wide and rich historical period, we can emphasize the reception and systematization of Leibniz’s philosophy with Christian Wolff, involving debates about Metaphysics, Psychology, Logics and Theology, as well as the creation of Aesthetics as Philosophical science with Baumgarten. This period features the peak of the development of Enlightenment in German speaking world; the genesis of Kant’s philosophy and the development of Critical philosophy, taking as the Critique of Pure Reason turning point; the development of philosophy of history through the reception of Leibniz’s Theodicy, as well as Herder’s and Kant’s ideas on history; the critical reception of Kantian philosophy, stimulating the debate between skeptics and critical philosophers, what gives rise to new paths to Kantian transcendental philosophy, as in German Romanticism, German Idealism and Schopenhauer; the development of modern dialectics with Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, as well as the rise of philosophical Hermeneutics with Schleiermacher.

The wide historical range brings many possibilities of transdisciplinary approaches, as with Physics, Biology, History, Psychology, Politics and Arts.

Besides the historical study, the event also seeks to stimulate the contemporary debate through Classical German Philosophy’s concepts and arguments that survive time and which are, in many cases, still on the ground of philosophical contemporary debates. The dialogue between contemporary philosophers with Classical German Philosophy is considered here as essential to a good understanding of the process of critical development of ideas, world conceptions, and arguments, without which we cannot have a proper view of our times. Along these lines, we emphasize the discussion around Enlightenment against its contemporary cultural and political crisis, the relationship between modern, romantic and idealist conceptions on nature and human being and its connection to environmental crisis, the educational and social formation, the place of religion and theology in modern and secular society (considering its atomization and focus on material and abstract consumption), and mainly the discussion about the update of dialectics in relation to contemporary theories, as the biological evolutionary theory thought in an universalized way, in philosophical terms.

Norms for the proposals:

Talk proposals must be sent with the title, author’s name with academic degree and institution (when applied), an abstract between 300 – 500 words, three to five Keywords and the basic bibliographical references. Each talk will have 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion.

Proposals in Portuguese, Spanish and English will be accepted.

Deadline: 6th July 2019

Result: until 21th July 2019

Send the proposal to the following e-mail:

seminariodefilosofiaalema@gmail.com

The proposals will be selected considering the following criteria: adequacy to the Seminar subject, clarity of exposition, relevance of bibliography to the subject, quality of reasoning.

The proposals will be judged by the Organizing Committee.

Organizing Committee:

Adriano Bueno Kurle (UFMT)
Bruno Cunha (UFSJ)
Luciano Utteich (UNIOESTE-PR)
Luis Henrique Dreher (UFJF)
Mario Spezzapria (UFMT)