Philosophical Anthropologies

This conference is part of a series examining Nietzsche’s relation to Kant and Kantianism, each focussing on specific areas and texts of Kant’s philosophy. After conferences on ethics in Leiden, aesthetics in London, epistemology in Lisbon, and religion in Belo Horizonte, the Lecce
conference will focus on anthropology.

Thursday, April 18

Marco Brusotti (Lecce): Philosophical Anthropologies: Introduction to the Conference

Beatrix Himmelmann (Tromsø): Critical Metaphysics versus Naturalistic Anthropology: Kant, Nietzsche and the Idea of Philosophy

Simon May (London): Do Nietzsche and Kant Have Anything to Teach us about Love and Self-Love?

Herman Siemens (Leiden): Conflict and Teleology in Nietzsche and Kant

Maria João Branco (Lisbon): Kant and Nietzsche on the Sense of Hearing

Katia Hay (Lisbon): The Art of Laughter: Kant vs Nietzsche

Friday, April 19

Luca Lupo (Cosenza): Kant and Nietzsche on Consciousness

Martine Prange (Leiden): The Politics of Nature: Drives to Culture and Human Development in Kant and Nietzsche

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Erlangen): Perfecting Human Beings: From Kant and Nietzsche to Trans- and Post-humanism

Sebastian Gardner (London): The ‘Complete Anthropological View’: Kant, Schiller, and Nietzsche

The conference is organized by Marco Brusotti (marco.brusotti@] unisalento.it) and funded by the Project of Relevant National Interest, ‘Friedrich Nietzsche: Edition and Reception’ (PRIN 2009, Ministry of Education, University and Research), the University of Salento and the Monte dei Paschi di Siena.