Recognition: German Idealism As Ongoing Challenge / Anerkennung: der deutsche Idealismus als fortwährende Herausforderung

Preliminary Program / Vorläufiges Tagungsprogramm

Wednesday / Mittwoch, 05. September 2012

13.30-13.45        Opening / Eröffnung der Veranstaltung: Grußwort durch den Dekan und die Veranstalter

13.45-14.45        Paul Cobben (Tilburg) – The Paradigm of Recognition: Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death

14.45-15.45        Coffeebreak / Kaffeepause

15.45-16.45        Heikki Ikäheimo (Macquarie) – Hegel's Concept of Recognition: What is it?

16.45-17.45        Klaus Vieweg (Jena) – Anerkennung und die logische Grundlegung von Hegels praktischer Philosophie

18.00-19.00      Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig) – Recognition of Norms and Recognition of Other Persons: Forms of Joint Practices in (Self-Conscious) Personhood

Thursday / Donnerstag, 06. September 2012

09.00-10.00        Simon Critchley (New York) – The Theatre of Misrecognition: Hegel's Hamlet

10.00-11.00        Markus Gabriel (Bonn) – Limits of Recognition

11.00-11.30        Coffeebreak / Kaffeepause

11.30-12.30        Christian Krijnen (Tilburg/Amsterdam) – Anerkennung: zukünftige Herausforderungen eines gegenwärtigen Paradigmas der Philosophie

14.00-15.00        Kurt Walter Zeidler (Wien) – Anerkennung: Ein Ausweg aus einer Verlegenheit?

15.00-15.30        Coffeebreak / Kaffeepause

15.30-16.30        Robert B. Brandom (Pittsburgh) – Titel noch nicht bekannt

16.30-17.30        Kenneth Westphal (East Anglia) – Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Substantive Domains

Friday/ Freitag, 07. September 2012

09.00-10.00        Claudia Bickmann (Köln) – Hegels Methode der Anerkennung

10.00-11.00        Sasa Josifovic (Köln) – Die intrasubjektive Bedeutung der Anerkennung für die Dynamik der Bildung des Selbstbewusstseins

11.00-11.30        Coffeebreak / Kaffeepause

11.30-12.30        Erzsébet Rózsa (Debrecen) – Anerkennung und Liebe bei Hegel

14.00-15.00        Jean-Christophe Merle (Saarbrücken) – Freundschaft als Anerkennung im deutschen Idealismus

15.00-15.30        Coffeebreak / Kaffeepause

15.30-16.30        Donald Loose (Tilburg) – Recognition: the Kantian Version

16.30-17.30        Discussion / Schlußdiskussion

17.30                     Drinks / Umtrunk

Topic:

Over the past two decades or so, an intensive, inspiring and fruitful debate about ‘recognition’ (Anerkennung) has taken place. Both analytical and continental traditions of philosophy come together in this debate, developing a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of what is going on in our modern world, while at the same time integrating and reactualizing important older philosophies, especially those of German idealism.

Although in this debate recognition prima facie seems to be concerned with topics of practical, especially political, philosophy, secunda facie recognition seems to obtain such a broad significance, not only thematically but also historically, that it evokes the question of whether a new philosophical paradigm is at stake here: recognition turns out to be a fundamental concept relevant not only for understanding political issues, but for our human world as such, including notions like subjectivity, objectivity, rationality, knowledge, personality, sociality, identity, otherness, nature, logic, etc.

The aim of the conference is to explore, i.e. to diagnose, analyse and evaluate, prospects and limits of recognition as a philosophical paradigm. This exploration is lead by the question of whether the present debate sufficiently incorporates the systematic requirements of the philosophy of German idealism, which it pretends of inherit and to reactualize. Are there relevant fundamental aspects of German idealism which are not or insufficiently addressed in the contemporary debate on recognition?Recognition as a ‘new paradigm’ of philosophy does not only depart from highly influential convictions with regard to the philosophy of German idealism, its argumentative potential, internal development, and limits. As a new paradigm for philosophy claiming to actualize German idealist philosophy, it provokes questions about the foundation of the principle of recognition itself and its exact place within, and structural relation to, other principles of philosophy and its corresponding philosophical disciplines, but also questions about which philosophical method provides the best means for thematizing recognition. Such questions can also be addressed in a more historical vein: E.g. concerning the apparent preference in the debate on recognition for Hegel’s earlier works, partly favouring his Phänomenologie des Geistes, partly his pre-phenomenological investigations in the Jena period, both differing significantly from each other and from the comprehensive philosophy Hegel developed later in hisEnzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften; but also concerning the concept of recognition in Kant and/or Fichte, their shortcomings, etc.

In short: A discussion between contemporary philosophers and German idealists like Kant, Fichte, and Hegel about recognition as a fundamental principle of philosophy will give the present discourse entirely refreshing and inspiring impulses.

Structure: Presentation (30 min.) – discussion (25 min.)

Language: Conference languages are English and German

Registration: until 2 September 2012 at [email protected]

Registration fees: 65 Euro (includes drinks and lunch during the conference). Info about payment will be send to you soon after registration. Students which have problems to cover the conference fee are requested to contact the organizers.

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