NATURE AND CULTURE IN
GERMAN ROMANTICISM AND IDEALISM
UNSW Australia
and the University
of Sydney
12-14 March, 2014
12-14 March, 2014
The last two decades can be described as witness to a
genuine revival of interest in German romantic and idealist philosophy.
Philosophers working in a variety of areas have embraced the ideas of the
romantics and idealists, disentangling them from false or misunderstood
legacies, and reexamining them in light of contemporary debates. This
conference aims to advance this significant historical and philosophical
research, by investigating the two most central themes in German idealist and
romantic philosophy: nature and culture and their interdependence.
Precisely because of the interdisciplinary character of romanticism and idealism, the conference approaches the two movements from a number of related angles. In the first instance, the goal is to consider how various thinkers from the romantic era conceived nature and culture, and sought to harmonize the sphere of the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) and the sphere of the humanities (Geisteswissenschaften), which, only some fifty years later, became fully separated. In addition, the conference seeks to investigate the interdisciplinary conception of “Geist” developed during that time, which today can be translated into “mind” as well as its various externalizations as “society,” “arts,” “institutions,” and “culture.” In these two ways, the conference will explore the uniqueness of the romantic and idealist views, and consider their potential significance for contemporary debates.
Conference organisers:
Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW),
Dalia Nassar (Sydney) and
Paul Redding (Sydney )
E: Click here to email coordinators
Precisely because of the interdisciplinary character of romanticism and idealism, the conference approaches the two movements from a number of related angles. In the first instance, the goal is to consider how various thinkers from the romantic era conceived nature and culture, and sought to harmonize the sphere of the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) and the sphere of the humanities (Geisteswissenschaften), which, only some fifty years later, became fully separated. In addition, the conference seeks to investigate the interdisciplinary conception of “Geist” developed during that time, which today can be translated into “mind” as well as its various externalizations as “society,” “arts,” “institutions,” and “culture.” In these two ways, the conference will explore the uniqueness of the romantic and idealist views, and consider their potential significance for contemporary debates.
Conference organisers:
Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW),
Dalia Nassar (Sydney) and
Paul Redding (
E: Click here to email coordinators
Conference sponsored by the Sydney Intellectual History
Network (SIHN) at the University of Sydney and the Faculty of Arts and Social Science and
the School of Humanities and
Languages at UNSW Australia.
Conference Registration
Registrations close 7 March 2014
Click here to register
Click here to register
Conference website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/about/ncgri_conference.shtml
**END**
'Cheerful Sin' – a song by Victor
Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8
Posted here by Glenn
Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski at Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk
Online
Publications at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski
Posts
