CFP: Nietzsche and the Kantian Tradition

This conference is intended to be the first in a series of international conferences aiming to discuss Nietzsche’s relation to a variety of schools and traditions within the Western philosophy. The series of international conferences on Nietzsche and the Philosophical Tradition is an academic project conceived by GruNie (Nietzsche’s Research Group of the UFMG). In its first edition, the International Conference will have as theme Nietzsche and the Kantian Tradition, which shall include not only the different sorts of reception of Kantian themes by Nietzsche (acceptance, assimilation, refusal and reformulation of recognizable Kantian views in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, morals and aesthetics), but also the role played in this reception by various authors of the nineteenth century German philosophy (for instance, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Albert Lange, Afrikan Spir, Otto Liebmann, Otto Caspari, Gustav Teichmüller and Hermann von Helmholtz); and, finally, an assessment of the relevance of Nietzsche’s criticism of certain aspects of the Kantian philosophy in the light of contemporary reinterpretations of Kantianism.

We invite submissions for parallel sessions (3 x 30 minute sessions: 30 minute papers including discussion) on all topics bearing on the conference theme. Potential topics include:

• Nietzsche and Kant on the nature and place of aesthetic experience
• Nietzsche and the Kantian revival of the second half of the nineteenth century
• Nietzsche and the naturalization of Transcendental Philosophy
• Nietzsche’s reaction to the controversy on the Kantian Transcendental Aesthetic
• Enlightenment and Modernity
• Moral psychology
• Thing-in-itself and phenomenon
• Kant and Nietzsche on Phenomenalism
• Freedom, autonomy and sovereignty

If you want to contribute to this conference, please send an abstract of a maximum of 400 words of your paper on the above or other related topics, and a short CV (no longer than one page) via e-mail by June 15th, 2012 to [email protected] (Rogério Lopes/Giorgia Cecchinato), with the following in the subject box: Submission – Conference on Nietzsche and the Kantian Tradition. Proposals may be presented in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than 10 July 2012.

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