CfP

Art, Language, Poetry: From Kant to Heidegger

10th-11th September 2014

Department of Philosophy

University of Kent

Keynotes:   Stephen Mulhall (Oxford) Tanja Staehler (Sussex)

This is the first postgraduate conference on aesthetics, philosophy of poetry and language in the Post-Kantian tradition. It revisits a tradition in which aesthetics, philosophy of language and poetry were much less firmly divided, and instead took central and mutually informing positions in the systems of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, the Romantics, leading up to thinkers like Heidegger and Adorno. This conference will look at the fruits of the cooperative labour between philosophy, art and poetry, and ask both what was lost, and what remains from this incredibly productive, but little discussed, tradition in the history of philosophy.

We invite postgraduates to submit 300 word abstracts for papers on aesthetics, philosophy of art and poetry, and related themes (such as metaphysics and history) in the Kantian and Post-Kantian tradition.

Please send submissions to ALPResearch@kent.ac.uk

This event is part of the Later German Philosophy forum conference series.

Funded by KIASH

http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/staff/moffat.html

https://latergermanphilosophy.com/events/

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The aim of the conference is to examine the philosophical systems developed
by German philosophers in the 1860-1951 period, and discuss their relevance
to contemporary analytical and continental philosophy. The focus is on
thinkers such as Max Scheler, Franz Brentano, Adolf Trendelenburg, Martin
Heidegger, Wilhelm Dilthey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Cassirer and Hannah
Arendt. Their systems emerged out of dissatisfaction with Kant’s
transcendental idealism, and with German idealism, and offered a wealth of
original ideas in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and
language, moral and political philosophy, anthropology, and philosophy of
culture and history.

While the conference is analytical in motivation and objective, it has also
an unique historical focus. We aim to establish with this conference a new
forum for philosophical studies to be known as Later German Philosophy
and which looks into the contemporary relevance of philosophical works produced during the 1860-1951 period, i.e.
a period marked by the deaths of two philosophers whose methods of inquiry
and argumentation marked respectively the end and the beginning of
significant philosophical traditions: Schopenhauer (1860) and Wittgenstein
(1951). The philosophers whose ideas and arguments the conference speakers
will consider are all Later German philosophers in this sense.

Research questions
* What alternative philosophical systems were developed in response to Kant
and the German idealists?
* How did the rise of the natural and historical sciences affect philosophy?
* How did the analytic-continental divide emerge? Can it be overcome? Does
the 1860-1951 period offer us new approaches to this questions?
* In which areas and what respect can contemporary philosophy benefit from
the ideas of the 1860-1951 thinkers?

Conference fee is £12 for non-students and £4.50 for students. Buffet lunch,coffee and cookies are included.

This conference is a non-profit event. To register, please email us first to ensure that spaces are still available, and, if so, please send a cheque for £12 or £4.50 to the following address:

Clare Valentine
SECL Finance and HR Coordinator
Cornwallis NW
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7NF

Please send all queries to latergermanphilosophy@inbox.com or
e.kanterian@kent.ac.uk