Rethinking the Human

September 18, 2014 - September 20, 2014
University of Leuven

Leuven
Belgium

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2014 ISRLC Conference, University of Leuven

18-20 September 2014

Abstracts are now being sought for a panel on Continental Philosophy at the 2014 International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference on the topic, "Rethinking the Human".

Continental Philosophy and Religion Panel

Panel-convenors: Andrew Hass and Daniel Whistler


Humanisms have driven various modern agendas since the great reforms and counter-reforms of 16th Century Europe. Modern continental philosophy, at least since Descartes, has never not embraced a humanist position, in one form or other, if not least because the continental shift that was Cartesianism redrew the frame of reference from which one initiates philosophical enquiry. If this shift – from the divine to the human – demands a human reckoning all the more, that reckoning has not been without its difficulties and criticism, its fractures and divisions, whether at the level of individual consciousness, subjectivity, and autonomy (as Human Being), or at the level of collective unity, spirit and freedom (as Humanity). Since Nietzsche, the crises have dilated, and since the Great War, irreversibly. Today, continental philosophy continues to wrestle with the resultant dilemma: how to account for the “human” in a manner that admits its conceptual and practical frailty and division, if not its outright failure, and yet that still justifies its need to be accounted, even if accounted against itself. This panel will explore how that dilemma hinges on imaginative human reworking, whether through literature, art, theology, hermeneutics, or various forms of theoretical and critical discourse. But it will also entertain questions concerning the inhuman, and whether a revisioning of religion or theology could accommodate human negation, as through, for example, recent appeals to transhumanism, bleak metaphysics or, in critical theory, accelerationism.

Contributors should aim to deliver a 20 minute paper. Deadline for submission of 300-word abstract: April 30 2014.


Please see the conference website: http://isrlc.org/?page_id=108for more details on submitting abstracts and the call for papers for other panels running at the conference.

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