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Recent years have seen a new wave of interesting work on post-Kantian philosophy, overcoming various dividing lines that have limited our perspective. The Potsdam Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy offers a new home to this critical engagement with the post-Kantian tradition in all of its diversity and complexity. It seeks to develop its insights and its limitations in relation to the pressing epistemic, social, political and ecological concerns of our time. To that end, the Center hosts a variety of conferences, workshops and lecture series and brings together a diverse group of international research fellows in Potsdam every year, working on individual and collaborative projects and elaborating what we can know, shall do, may hope.

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Recent events

Philosophizing the Anthropocene

Material Intentionality II

Communism of Spirits

Recognition — Beyond the Standard Story

Negative Anthropology

Markus Wild: Transformation or Addition? Two Ways of Looking at Anthropological Difference

First and Second Technique

Kant on Shared Mental Content

Freedom in Dependence: Workshop with Tatiana Llaguno

Fichte’s philosophy of embodiment

Lectures on Ethics

Aesthetic experience and social emancipation

Fifth Annual Critical Theory Workshop

The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

Freedom Within the Limits of Nature

Autonomy and its Discontents

Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant

Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics Revisited

Material Intentionality I

Katalin Makkai – The Aesthetics of Absorption

Cosmopolitics and Representation

Climate Change and Post-Truth

NATURE AND HISTORY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History

Neither Master Nor Slave

Kohei Saito – Marx against Marx: Ecomodernism vs. Degrowth

Regulative Principles in Kant and Post-Kantian Thought

The Circulation of Capital

The Absolute Idealism of Reception

Recovering Nature

SPINOZA / HEGEL

Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity – Peter Gordon in conversation with Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana

Peter Gordon – Traces of a Different Color: Adorno, Normativity, and Immanent Critique

Machines of the Social

Daniele Lorenzini – Frantz Fanon and the Harm of Racism

Eli Friedlander – Walter Benjamin on Form and Identity

Balibar – Towards a New Foundation for Philosophical Anthropology

Philosophies of the Anthropocene

How is Metaphysics Possible? A Critique of Analytic Reason

Cavell and Other Minds

Marcus Willaschek – Wäre ein ewiges Leben wünschenswert? Gedanken über den Wert von Tod und Unsterblichkeit

Andrew Norris — On the First Person: Kierkegaard/Cavell

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner – Marxian Alienation as Hypostasization

THE CULMINATION: HEIDEGGER, GERMAN IDEALISM, AND THE FATE OF PHILOSOPHY

Terry Pinkard: Life, Logic, Practice – The Remnants of Naturalized Left-Hegelianism

The Futures of Marx

Zhang Shuangli: HEGELIAN MARXISM OR MARXIST HEGELIANISM? RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARX AND HEGEL

Recognition of the Will of the Person: Workshop with Wayne Martin

Epistemic Injustice, Recognition Failures, and Social Movements

The Effectivity of Knowledge: Workshop with Frieder Vogelmann

The Truth of the Matter

The Politics of Beginnings

Anton Ford: The Question What to Do?

Teleology and History

Revolution and Liberation: Gunnar Hindrichs und Christoph Menke in Conversation

Theory of Liberation

Politics of Nature: Philosophical Perspectives on the Anthropocene

Andrea Kern: All and Nothing

Natural Histories of the Human Mind

The Wickedness of Freedom

Robert Pippin: Phenomenology and Logic of Life

“Dialectical Anthropology”?

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