BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T194503Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Bogota:20260924T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Bogota:20260926T170000 SUMMARY:4th International Conference "CeNic Nihilism and Culture": Nihilism\, Destruction\, and Creation UID:20260908T194503Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-2k8pg TZID:America/Bogota LOCATION:Villa de Leiva\, Colombia\, 154001 DESCRIPTION:

Beyond its most common meaning &mdash\;linked to its literal sense&mdash\; nihilism does not refer exclusively to the study of nothingness (nihil)\, and therefore it is not an issue limited to philosophical-metaphysical reflection\, as common sense tends to consider it. Drawing on the reflections of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) in his novel Fathers and sons\, as well as those of some of his compatriots &mdash\;Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1883) and Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)\, for example&mdash\; passing through philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)\, nihilism ceases to be a simple concept and becomes a phenomenon that directly engages human experience and\, with it\, all spheres of contemporary human existence. Works such as those by Franco Volpi (2005. El nihilismo. Buenos Aires: Biblos)\, Roberto Esposito\, Vincenzo Vitiello and Carlo Galli (2008. Nihilismo y polí\;tica. Buenos Aires: Manantial)\, Michelle Borrelli (2017. Nuovo umanesimo o nichilismo. Grandezza e miseria dell&rsquo\;Occidente. Trieste: Asterios Editore)\, and Costantino Esposito (2021. El nihilismo de nuestro tiempo. Una cró\;nica. Madrid: Encuentro) bear witness to this. Within this context\, the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism &mdash\;dedicated to thinking about the phenomenon of nihilism from diverse perspectives (philosophical\, political\, cultural\, educational\, and social\, among others)&mdash\; opens the call for its 4th International Conference with the aim of fostering discussion on the multiple possible approaches to the two-faced phenomenon of &ldquo\;destruction&rdquo\; (the tendency toward nothingness\, negation\, and the minimization of diversity in the various spheres of human existence) and &ldquo\;creation&rdquo\; (diverse possibilities that run counter to any process of negation of the world&rsquo\;s multiplicity)\, offering a wide range of themes from which the experience of nihilism and its possible ways of overcoming can be addressed.

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