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📅 11–13 March 2026📍 Cankarjev dom – Alma Karlin Hall
🗣️ Language: English
𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬: Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, Cultural and Congress Centre Cankarjev dom, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana
One of the defining features of German classical philosophy is its emphasis on intersubjectivity. In one way or another, the various thinkers in this tradition gravitated towards the idea that subjectivity is essentially mediated through the relation to other subjects. In other words, intersubjectivity constitutes a crucial moment of subjectivity as such.
Arguably, it was Fichte who inaugurated this line of thought. The conference will explore the keyl concepts of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and political philosophy. It will examine Fichte's theory of the self's constitution through limitation (Anstoß) and its subsequent development into the social dimension via Aufforderung (summons) and Anerkennung (recognition), analyzing the systematic relationship between these notions and their practical function. A central theme is the evolution of Fichte's view of the state, shifting from a juridical institution securing individual freedom in his early work to a more ethical, formative community built on shared culture in his later writings. Ultimately, the conference will address how Fichte's idea of intersubjectivity impacts the state's authority and its relevance to contemporary debates on the relationship between the individual, community, and the state in emancipatory politics.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬: Gesa Wellmann, Jean Quétier, Roberta Picardi, Lucas Damian Scarfia, Gaetano Rametta, Manja Kisner, Plato Tse, Taiju Okochi, Jimena Solé, Goran Vranešević, Alberto Destasio, Bartosz Wójcik, Pardini Niccolò, Shunsuke Kudomi, Marie Louise Krogh
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲
In March 2026, a series of international events will, through a dialogue between Hegel and pragmatism, an in-depth examination of Fichte’s intersubjectivity, and a reflection on Spinoza’s epistolary philosophy, shed light on fundamental questions of practice community, and the state in German classical thought and its contemporary resonance.
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Event Venue
Cankarjev dom, Erjavčeva cesta 15, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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