August 11th 2014, University of Helsinki
HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
(Fabianinkatu 24), room 136
The symposium explores the productive conjunction between philosophical reflection, the study of history and our understanding of contemporary politics. We will investigate the theoretical tools that phenomenology offers for the study of history. How does history present itself to us, how does it enter our lives, and what are the forms of experience in which it does so? History is always connected with social and political existence and its past, and so we shall also be posing philosophical questions about the political domain and of its temporality. What are the connections between our understanding of politics and the philosophical investigation of history? What is the political relevance of the study of the history of philosophy?
10.15–12.00
David Carr (The New School for Social Research and Emory University, USA): Historical Experience – Continuity and Discontinuity
Respondent: Sara Heinämaa (University of Jyväskylä)
Lunch Break
13.30–15.00
Omri Boehm (The New School for Social Research, USA): Enlightenment, Obedience, Revolution
Coffee
15.30–17.30
Timo Miettinen (University of Helsinki): Crisis and Revolution
Respondent: Martina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä)
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Contact: Johanna Oksala (johanna.oksala@helsinki.fi) & Timo Miettinen (timo.pa.miettinen@helsinki.fi)
Organised by the Research Network Subjectivity, Historicity, and Communality (SHC), University of Helsinki
