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Will Levine on Kant and Neo-Kantian Political Thought
I am currently at work at two research projects, both of which are related to my overall project at the Kolleg, which is to turn my dissertation into a book manuscript. The first one is a journal article analyzing the role of two little known Neo-Kantian thinkers, Karl Vorländer and Franz Staudinger, in the Revisionismusstreit, […]
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Research Moments
In our new series ‘Research Moments‘ fellows of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg report on their work-in-progress. These research moments highlight novel research questions and ongoing struggles; they invite discussion and dialogue. The series starts with Will Levine opening up intriguing, perhaps even perplexing perspectives on Kant’s political thought and the role of the Neo-Kantian thinkers Karl Vorländer […]
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Workshop: Virtue and Sociability
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen27-28 February 2020 Friendship is a basic feature of ethics and social life, and our workshop will investigate friendship in a historical perspective. We will concentrate on the early modern period (1500-1700) and are especially interested how early moderns reappraised, re-elaborated, and criticized traditional ideas of friendship. Greek philosophers such as Plato, […]
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Workshop: Rembrandt – Lasting Impressions
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Tuesday 10 December/Wednesday 11 December 2019 Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11 Tuesday, 10 December 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction (Martin van Gelderen, Ivan Gaskell) 10:15-11:15 Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York City): Face to Face with Rembrandt 11:15-11:45 Coffee/Tea Break 11:45-12:45 An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford): Young Rembrandt […]
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Workshop: Intersections of Earth Sciences and Theology in the Long 18th Century
Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11 Organized by Hanna Roman, Volkswagen‐Mellon Fellow in Residence & Lichtenberg‐Kolleg Programme Thursday, 11 July Arrival of conference participants 16:30 Meeting point at the Eden Hotel and walk to the Old University Library 17:00 Guided tour of the Old University Library (optional) Friday, 12 July 8:30-8:50 Arrival and Registration […]
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Workshop: Jews and Jewish Religion in Western Postwar Fiction Film
International conference at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg August Universität Göttingen in partnership with the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (IGdJ). The Post-war West often understands itself as an enlightened society. Yet religion, and Judaism more specifically, appear time and again in […]