In contemporary discussions of self-knowledge the primary way in which the other enters the scene is this: Our knowledge of the other figures as the contrast case that can help us get at the specifici...

How can a social condition be criticized and transformed that only functions at the price of restricting and suppressing the freedom and needs of the people living within it? And how can a new form of...

This international workshop will explore Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s innovative conception of the body (Leib) – one of the most original yet underexamined aspects of his philosophy. Fichte develops a sys...

This graduate student conference is dedicated to Wittgenstein’s 1929 Lecture on Ethics – its content, its method, and its relation to other philosophical texts. Participants will examine the importanc...

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Talk by Kohei Saito, followed by a discussion with Rahel Jaeggi, and Thomas Khurana

Thomas Khurana – Autonomy and its Discontents: An Introduction Brian O’Connor – Autonomy as Competitive Capital Isabel Sickenberger – Freedom’s Discontent: Hegel on the Division of Labour and Gender V...

This conference seeks to offer a re-evaluation of a singular text — Wittgenstein’s 1929 “Lecture on Ethics” — and of its enduring influence within post-Wittgensteinian approaches to Ethics. The Lectur...

Der mit 12.000 Euro dotierte Hegel-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart geht 2024 an Professor Dr. Orlando Patterson.

“Reception is artistic, production bureaucratic.” (Rainald Goetz, “Absolute Idealism”) Contemporary thought has seen a remarkable renaissance of “absolute idealism.” While absolute idealism was consid...

More than fifty years after his death, the legacy of Theodor W. Adorno is still highly controversial. Many see him as a philosopher of uncompromising negativity, of gnostic darkness, and also of all-e...

If it is true that the mind is a socially distributed power, then the form of the mind seems to depend essentially on the structure of our social interaction. Against this background, the question ari...

CPKP Talk followed by a reception in House 11