(HS/OS) Kant and Cosmopolitics. Building a More Hopeful Future (Blockveranstaltung)
Dozent:innen: Dr. Margit RuffingKurzname: HS/OS Cosmopolitics
Kurs-Nr.: 05.127.450
Kurstyp: Seminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Die Lehrveranstaltung wird von der britischen Gastdozentin, Frau Dr. Diane Morgan (School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) unter MItwirkung von Dr. Margit Ruffing gehalten.Die Unterrichtssprache ist Englisch und auch Deutsch.
Für nähere Informationen inhaltlischer Art kontaktieren Sie bitte Dr. Morgan unter den unten angegebenen E-Mail. Organisatorische Fragen beantwortet Ihnen gern das Studienbüro (hatakov@uni-mainz.de).
Die Blockveranstaltung findet vom Montag, dem 9. April bis Freitag, dem 13. April 2018 vormittags (s. Terminübersicht) statt.
Empfohlene Literatur
Kant, Immanuel: Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht / Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose; Zum ewigen Frieden / Perpetual Peace; Über den Gemeinspruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis / “On the Common Saying : ?This May be true in Theory, but it does not apply in Practice’,” in Political Writings, ed. H. Reiss; „Grundzüge der Schilderung des Charakters der Menschengattung“, in: Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht / “On the Character of the Species”, in Anthropology.Morgan, Diane: Kant for Architects (London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2018); « ‘The Camel (The Ship of the Desert ; ‘Fluid Geography’, ‘Globality’,Cosmopolitics in the Work of Immanuel Kant », in The Epistemology of Utopia, ed. J Bastos da Silva (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013); Kant Trouble (London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2000).
Vor dem Seminar werde ich ausführliche Vorbereitungsmaterialien zur Verfügung stellen, bzw. Auszüge, die wir zusammen diskutieren können. Sie können auch mit mir persönlich Kontakt aufnehmen, falls Sie Fragen haben: findlm@leeds.ac.uk.
Inhalt
An apocalyptic tone hangs over us. The future looks bleak. Politically, the world has gone mad; ecologically, the earth is threatening to change its nature; socially, there are such blatant injustices, whereas economically affairs seem doomed to continue in the same old way… For those who are unhappy with the current situation, the same existential questions haunt us as those identified by Ernst Bloch, who wrote his Principle of Hope during the dark times of Nazi Germany, namely: “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we waiting for? What awaits us?”. However, is it really the case that there are no alternatives to a global meltdown? Surely we must at least hope that a better future is still possible? Taking our lead from Ernst Bloch, who staunchly rejected resignation and despair, we should maybe affirm the importance of both teaching and learning hope.For me Immanuel Kant has always been a hopeful, I’d go so far to say “utopian”, thinker. His philosophy of life strikes me as positive and motivating. I wish to explore such an interpretation of his work in this seminar.
We will begin by exploring the place building, and more precisely architecture, holds in Kant’s work. In Critique of Pure Reason, faced with the immensity of the universe and the wonders of nature, Kant postulates, not a "creator of the world to whose idea everything is subject", but rather "an architect [einen Weltbaumeister] … who is always hampered by the adaptability of the material in which he works" (KrV B655). We will follow in the traces of this architect- figure, who is constantly confronted with the intractable materiality of the world, in our search for sustenable principles for constructing what could be called a future-oriented “cosmopolitics”. We will try to identify the resources needed to maintain “a whole”, i.e. to produce an environment within which, not only “the original capacities of the human race”, but also of other life forms, may eventually flourish (Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht, § 8).
Termine
| Datum (Wochentag) | Zeit | Ort |
|---|---|---|
| 09.04.2018 (Montag) | 09:00 - 12:00 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 10.04.2018 (Dienstag) | 09:00 - 13:00 | 01 491 P110 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 11.04.2018 (Mittwoch) | 09:00 - 13:00 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 12.04.2018 (Donnerstag) | 09:00 - 13:00 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 13.04.2018 (Freitag) | 09:00 - 12:00 | 00 461 P11 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |