Conceptions of Life in German Idealism and Romanticism

Conference participants include:

– Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University): “Sculpture and the Touch of Art: Human Nature and Aesthetic Experience”

– Camilla Flodin (Södertörn University) confirmed: “Hölderlin and the Poetic Representation of Life”

– Ina Goy (University of Tübingen): “Goethe's metamorphosis of plants”

– Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney University): "Between Form and Force: Goethe's Response to Blumenbach and Wolff"

– Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University): “An Organic Model of Schematism: A Post-Kantian Approach to Kant’s Theory of Judgment”

– Paul Redding (University of Sydney): “Hegel’s Logic in relation to Goethe’s Theory of Colours”

– Simon Lumsden (University of New South Wales): “Hegel’s Concept of Bildung”

– Rachel Falkenstern (Pennsylvania State University): “Hegel’s Conception of Second Nature in Tragic Drama”

– Nicolas Garcia Mills (University of Illinois, Chicago): “Hegel on Human Spirit, the Animal Soul and Nature”

– Karen Koch (Free University of Berlin): “The Hegelian Explanation of the Mechanic Inexplicability of Organisms”

– Lydia Moland (Colby College): “Life in Art: Hegel on the Organic in Architecture”

– Cat Moir (University of Sydney): “Life, Society, and Second Nature in Hegel’s System”

– Gerad Gentry (Lewis University and the University of Chicago): “The Ground of Hegel’s Logic of Life and the Unity of Reason: The Free Lawfulness of the Imagination”

– Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney): “Goethe and the Science of Life”

Chairs:

– Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales)

– Stephen Gaukgroger (University of Sydney)

– Diego Bubbio (Western Sydney University)

– Heikki Ikäheimo (University of New South Wales)

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