The Actuality of German Idealism: Form - Judgment - Experience

The project of German Idealism, in its historical as well as in its systematical character, marks an overcoming of disciplinary boundaries. Not only does it represent a certain challenging of the traditional philosophical inventory of knowledge; in its discussions of the anthropological, ethical, political, religious and aesthetical it also combines questions of the most different range. Today, it is in particular in current discourses on aesthetics, that the implicit as well as the explicit reference to German Idealism is remarkable. The governing question of the conference focuses on this recurrence, the Actuality of German Idealism especially in aesthetics : How to diagnose the consequences of the resurgences of German Idealism within theories of the aesthetical? Does the recurrence of German Idealism put the contours of particular disciplines as well as their common foundations into question again?

The conference does therefore focus on the Actuality of German Idealism in the sense of its relevance for the present. In this context the conference aims at the virtual crossing point between the particular disciplines and the different traditions of theory. It seeks to examine the potential and actuality of German Idealism first and foremost with respect to contemporary aesthetics, and to take an analysis of singular art phenomena and their multiple relations to political, epistemic, philosophical questions and questions of the life sciences as a starting point. Therefore the conference’s main aim is to establish the contours of a shared question throughout the disciplines, by means of confronting the most different traditions and theories, and to thus properly grasp the contemporary recurrence of German Idealism.

Conference language is English.

Rooms: L115, L116

Program:
24.05. Thursday

13h30: Introduction (Room: L 115)

14h15-16h30 (Panel A, Room: L 115)
Rachel Zuckert
Herder and the "Late Modern" System of the Arts
Daniel M. Feige
Beyond the Logic of the Possible - Constraints of Hegel’s System of the Arts

14h15-16h30 (Panel B, Room: L 116)
Sebastian Rödl
The Science of Logic as the Form of Knowledge
Hans Stauffacher
Wounding Blows and Aesthetic Narcissism: German Idealism and its Revenants

17h00-18h30 (Room: L 116)
Howard Caygill
Clausewitz and the Critique of Idealism

25.05. Friday

10h30-12h45 (Panel A, Room: L 115)
Eva Geulen
Fates of Goethe's morphology in the 20th Century (Simmel and Benjamin)
Mark Potocnik
Subjectivity in Schiller's Maid of Orleans

10h30-12h45 (Panel B, Room: L 116)
Albrecht Riethmüller
Music in Hegel's Aesthetics: The Centre of the Romantic Arts
Alessandro Bertinetto
Absolute Music and Absolute's Music. The Meaning of Music in German Idealism

15h00
David Carr (Room: L 116)
Experience, Subjectivity and History: German Idealism and Beyond

16h30-18h45 (Panel A, Room: L 115)
Gertrud Koch
The Ghost of the Oldest System Program of German Idealism in the Newest
Film Theories
Lisa Akervall
Becoming Visionary: A Differential Theory of the Faculties in Cinema

16h30-18h45 (Panel B, Room: L 116)
Rahel Jaeggi
Freedom as Non-Alienation - Hegel's "Objective" Critique of Ethical Life
Frank Ruda
Dialectics, Contradiction, Iteration. Thinking by Dividing (Hegel)

19h15 (Romm: L 116)
Thierry De Duve
Updating Genius – Some philosophical Musings on Eric Cameron's Thick
Paintings

26.05. Saturday

10h30-12h45 (Panel A, Room: L 115)
Christoph Menke
Second Nature: The "Lapse" of Spirit
Georg W. Bertram
Kant and Hegel on Aesthetic Reflection

10h30-12h45 (Panel B, Room: L 116)
Sally Sedgwick
On the Status of the Narrative Form of Hegel's "Philosophy of History”
Gunnar Hindrichs
Pure Forms of Thought

15h00 (Room: L 116)
James Conant
An Outline of a Reading of the B Deduction

16h30-18h45 (Panel A, Room: L 115)
Thomas Hilgers
Schiller's Political Aesthetics
Brigitte Hilmer
The Dreams of a Spirit-Seer and the Limits of an Aesthetic Judgment Community

16h30-18h45 (Panel B, Room: L 116)
Jan Völker
For the Time Being
Rado Riha
The Second Copernican Turn in Kant's Third Critique

19h15 (Room: L 116)
Mladen Dolar
Hegel’s Atom: The One, The Void and the Subject

27.05. Sunday

10h30-12h45 (Panel A, Room: L 115)
Christiane Voss
The Aesthetic Dynamic of Migrating Transcendentalism
Alenka Zupancic
Kant and the Imperative

10h30-12h45 (Panel B, Room: L 116)
Hans Thies Lehmann
Heartbreaking Melancholy, Peaceful Tragic? - A view from Today on Hegel's
View on Drama and Theater
Richard Eldridge
"To Think Exactly and Courageously": Poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetics,
and her Bohemia Poem

13h00 (Room: L 116)
David Wellbery
On the Idealist Concept of Endogenous Form

Organized in the frame of the CRC 626 Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits by Daniel M. Feige, Mark Potocnik, Frank Ruda und Jan Völker

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