The Department of Philosophy invites postgraduate submissions for papers for its September conference ‘Aesthetics, Language, Poetry: From Kant to Heidegger’, part of the Later German Philosophy series.
This is the first postgraduate conference on aesthetics, philosophy of poetry and language in the Post-Kantian tradition. It revisits a tradition in which aesthetics, philosophy of language and poetry were much less firmly divided, and instead took central and mutually informing positions in the systems of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, and the Romantics, leading up to thinkers like Heidegger and Adorno. The conference will look at the fruits of the co-operative labour between philosophy, art and poetry, and ask both what was lost, and what remains from this incredibly productive, but little discussed, tradition in the history of philosophy.
Postgraduates are invited to submit 300-word abstracts for papers on aesthetics, philosophy of art and poetry, and related themes (such as metaphysics and history) in the Kantian and Post-Kantian tradition, with the resulting presentations being around 25 minutes maximum.
The deadline for submission is 30 April 2014.
The conference will be held 10-11 September 2014. Two keynote speakers have been confirmed: Professor Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford) and Dr Tanja Staehler (University of Sussex). The conference is funded by the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH).
To submit, or for more information, contact Luke Moffat at: ALPResearch@kent.ac.uk