THE ENLIGHTENMENT TODAYA retrospective
WorkshopMonday 17 June 2019Trent Building LG13
A conversation between members of the Departments of Philosophy and Theology and Religious Studies with regard to the contemporary significance of the intellectual project described in Immanuel Kant’s famous essay, ‘What is Enlightenment?’ (1784)
10.45 Refreshments provided
11.00-12.15 Ian Kidd, ‘Straightening Out the “Crooked Timber of Humanity”: Kant, misanthropy and enlightenment’
Lunch break
13.00-14.15 Koshka Duff, ‘Collective Joy: The politicisation of aesthetics from Schiller to Scumtek’
Refreshments provided
14.45-16.00 Agata Bielik-Robson, ‘The Revenge of the Life-World: Populism as the rejection of Enlightenment’
16.30-17.45 Philip Goodchild, ‘Enlightenment From or Through Religion?’
University of NottinghamUniversity Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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