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SUMMARY:Philosophy and Crisis: Perspectives from Critical Phenomenology
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Niclas Rautenberg (Universität Hamburg)\n\n\n \nTh
 e unfolding authoritarian descent of the United States\, the spiralling vi
 olence in Gaza\, Israel\, and neighbouring regions\, the war of aggression
  against Ukraine\, the ‘culture wars’ against marginalised groups and 
 science\, unstable global markets\, the impending collapse of our planet
 ’s climate\, etc.—our time is mired in crises. Moreover\, these crises
  seem interdependent\; choosing a course of action to battle one crisis ha
 s repercussions for navigating another. At the latest since the second Tru
 mp Administration\, philosophy and academia have become aware of their rol
 e in these phenomena\; in practising philosophy\, the questions that we tr
 y to answer—and how we try to answer them—have an irreducibly politic
 al dimension. But does philosophy have the resources to help conceptualise
  (and solve) crisis?\nThe dual character of crisis—its oscillating dynam
 ic between society and academia—has long informed and motivated the phen
 omenological programme. Husserl’s Crisis\, for instance\, sought to ree
 stablish the epistemic significance of the lifeworld for the sciences and 
 save European civilisation in the process. With francophone thinkers like 
 Beauvoir\, Fanon\, Sartre\, Merleau-Ponty\, and Levinas\, phenomenology be
 came increasingly involved in addressing social and political themes such 
 as gender\, colonialism\, antisemitism\, class struggle\, and justice. In 
 recent years\, philosophers in North America and increasingly also in Euro
 pe have tried to make sense of this political programme through the lens o
 f what they call ‘critical phenomenology’. In classical Marxist fashio
 n\, critical phenomenology is not only interested in describing the world 
 but in changing it. Going beyond the transcendental project of ‘classica
 l phenomenology’\, its goal is to analyse how power differentials manife
 st in ordinary experience and find avenues for being-in-the-world differen
 tly. Can critical phenomenology help tackle crisis?\nWith this workshop\, 
 marking the close of the Excellence Strategy-funded project ‘Virtual Bat
 tlefields’\, we invite you to join us in debating the role of philosophy
 \, and especially critical phenomenology\, to come to terms with the many 
 faces of crisis. We are excited to welcome three exceptional speakers\, i.
 e.\, Lisa Guenther (Queen’s University\, Canada)\, Matthias Fritsch (Con
 cordia University\, Canada)\, and Marieke Borren (Open University\, Nether
 lands)\, who will deploy critical phenomenology to make sense of the colon
 iality of international law\, climate disobedience\, and the radical democ
 ratic potential of walking-with-others. Participation is free of charge an
 d possible either in person or virtually via Zoom.\n \n\nhttps://www.conf
 erences.uni-hamburg.de/event/748/
LOCATION:ESA W 221 (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1)
URL:https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/748/
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