September 28-30, 2018
Idealism Revisited – Philosophical Concepts in Contemporary Contexts
Organization: Marie-Élise Zovko, Myriam Gerhard, Steffen Stolzenberger
The course borrows its title from the widely discussed novel “Brideshead Revisited” published in 1945 by English writer Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead, the ancient seat of an aristocratic family, sets the scene for the novel’s theme: society’s changes and challenges within the context of catholic belief. The question the summer course aims to unfold is whether idealism might be considered a “conjuror’s name of such ancient power, that at its mere sound, the phantoms of those haunted last years” will begin “to take flight.” Revisiting the philosophical concepts of idealism in contemporary contexts challenges to grasp the power idealism shows within never ceasing transitions and changes of our world. Colloquially speaking, idealism stands for an optimistic, if not naïve worldview, but as a name, idealism also denotes schools within the history of philosophy such as American, British and German Idealism, or Platonism as a kind of prototype for all forms of idealism. In a stricter systematic approach, it is common to distinguish between an epistemological and ontological idealism. However, despite the varied, seemingly pluralistic use of the term “idealism”, idealism has always served in one specific way, i.e. as a catalyser for our understanding of nature, our world and our standing within it. Even though naturalism and scientific realism have been dominating the twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy, there might be more to the concept of idealism than being something that needs to be refuted, or sublated and integrated within naturalism.
Friday, September 28
16.00 – 16.15Welcome
16.15 – 17.00Matea Lončar(Zadar)
Plato In Today's World
17.00 – 17.45NivesTreščec(Zadar)
Platonism And The Idealistic Concept Of Art
18.00 – 18.45Jure Zovko (Zagreb/Zadar)
19:00Dinner/Get together
Saturday, September 29
09:00 – 09:45ŽeljkaLilekBlagus (Zagreb)
9:45 – 10:30Philip Penew (Oldenburg)
Hegel’s Critique of Subjective Idealism
10:45 – 11:30Marie-ÉliseZovko (Zagreb)
Schelling’s Critique of the Negativity of Philosophical Idealism
11:45 – 12:30EnaPavičić (Zadar)
Kant's Understanding of Self-consciousness in the Context of Today's World
18:00 – 18:45Steffen Stolzenberger (Braunschweig)
20:00Common Dinner
Sunday, September 30
09:00 – 09:45Hannah Heide (Oldenburg)
Das Problem unbewusster Überlegungen
09:45 – 10:30Myriam Gerhard (Oldenburg)
Idealism in numbers
10:45 – 11:30Manuel Dedio(Oldenburg)
Self-Reference in Mathematics and Mathematical Platonism
11:30 – 12:15Renate Kroschel(Freiburg i. Br.)
13:00Final discussion/panel discussion for next year
The sessions take place in the building of IUC Dubrovnik:
Ul.don Frana Bulića 4, 20000, Dubrovnik
Every morning we can meet half an hour in advance in the courtyard of the building for a common coffee.
Abstracts
Manuel Dedio (Oldenburg)
Self-Reference in Mathematics and Mathematical Platonism
Matea Lončar (Zadar)
Plato In Today's World
ŽeljkaLilekBlagus (Zagreb)
Myriam Gerhard (Oldenburg)
Idealism in numbers
Renate Kroschel(Freiburg i. Br.)
Hannah Heide (Oldenburg)
Das Problem unbewusster Überlegungen
EnaPavičić (Zadar)
Kant's Understanding of Self-consciousness in the Context of Today's World
Philip Penew (Oldenburg)
Hegel’s Critique of Subjective Idealism
Steffen Stolzenberger (Braunschweig)
NivesTreščec(Zadar)
Platonism AndThe Idealistic Concept Of Art
Jure Zovko (Zagreb/Zadar)
Marie-ÉliseZovko (Zagreb)
Schelling’s Critique of the Negativity of Philosophical Idealism
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