Contemporary Philosophy at the Crossroads with Nihilism
Friday, June 28, 2024
Pro qm, Almstadtstraße 48, 10119 Berlin
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm CET/GMT+1
Institute for Global Reconstitution invites the public to discuss three recently published books devoted to the philosophical study of the present.7:30 pm – 9:30 pm CET/GMT+1
The present moment, with its acute sense of crisis, allows philosophers to better understand the temporal and historical nature of the global problems such as (objectively) the ecological crisis and (subjectively) the sense of finitude and negativity. Institute for Global Reconstitution invites the public to discuss three recently published books devoted to the philosophical study of the present: Michael Marder's "Contemporanea" and "The Phoenix Complex" and Artemy Magun's "The Temptation of Non-Being: Negativity in Aesthetics". "The Temptation of Non-Being" explores Modernist art in its mixture of emancipatory and apocalyptic moods, "The Phoenix Complex" discusses the nihilist myth of Modernity, and "Contemporanea", a multi-authored philosophical glossary, brings nature and art together into a single constellation of the current instant.
Artemy Magun is IGRec co-founder and executive director, philosopher. Author of two books in English and five in Russian, including Negative Revolution (Bloomsbury 2013), and The Temptation of Non-Being (Bloomsbury 2024), and of many academic articles. Founder and former head of the Stasis Center for Practical Philosophy in St Petersburg.
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm CET/GMT+1
Location: Pro qm, Almstadtstraße 48, 10119 Berlin