Praxis Reading Groups 2020/21
Animal Philosophy
Organized by Dr. Dirk Michael Hennrich (Praxis-CFUL – [email protected]) & Luanda Francine Garcia da Costa (DIVERSITAS -USP – [email protected]) | Beside the continuous preoccupation of philosophy with the questions of anthropological difference, Animal Philosophy is a relatively new philosophical discipline. Only in the second half of the 20th century, with fundamental works such as Peter Singer’s ‘Animal Liberation’ (1975), can one speak of an intense and increasingly deepening meaning of Animal Philosophy and the ethical and legal status of animals in the academic context. The reading group Animal Philosophy aims to read and discuss classic and contemporary texts on the question of the ethical and legal place of animals in the field of ontology, politics and the current ecological crisis.
Philosophy of Culture
Organized by Prof. Adriana Veríssimo Serrão ([email protected]) & Mário Cardoso ([email protected]) (in Portuguese) | A Filosofia da Cultura stricto sensu, tal como outras filosofias do genitivo, é um sinal da fragmentação do saber filosófico e da falência de uma visão da totalidade. É na Alemanha das primeiras décadas do século xx que a tensão entre crise da metafísica e crise das ciências se torna consciente, objecto de sombrios diagnósticos quanto ao declínio da civilização (Zivilization), mas, ao mesmo tempo, incentivo de diferentes propostas de refundação da ideia de Cultura (Kultur). O estudo desta época e de alguns textos dos seus protagonistas permitirá lançar luz sobre a nossa actualidade, nomeadamente, sobre o lugar da filosofia e a perenidade ou historicidade dos seus problemas, com particular incidência na Antropologia.
Topics of Social Philosophy and Critical Theory
Organized by Dr. Ricardo Mendoza-Canales ([email protected]) & Rui Filipe ([email protected]) (in Portuguese/English) |
Ethics and Politics of Visibility
Organized by Dr. Tamara Caraus ([email protected]) (in English) | The Reading Group aims to go back to the authors who (attempted to) identify Being with appearing (Heidegger and Arendt), examined the ‘dialectics’ of visible and invisible (Merleau-Ponty), described the need for the Other’s Gaze serving as the guarantee of the subject’s being (Lacan), defined politics as re-distribution of the sensible and the visible (Ranciere) and offered a critique of the ‘pornographic age’ (Badiou).