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Religion and Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Cluster

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The Religion & Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Cluster is an inter-disciplinary group, based in the Department of Philosophy, whose overall goal is to consolidate and expand upon the active research program that has built up in the last few years around the Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar, the KAPKI (Kantian and Post-Kantian Idealism) Seminars, and an ARC funded project on "The God of Hegel's Post-Kantian Idealism".

In 2008 and 2009, the Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar addressed and put into perspective many questions and challenges surrounding the discipline of the philosophy of religion by inviting a number of philosophers to present papers. In 2008, the Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar has received an increasing attention from scholars working on post-Kantian tradition (broadly conceived), both inside and outside the Department of Philosophy.

At the same time, there has been an increase of postgraduate research interest in the post-Kantian approach to the philosophy of religion (including research in the areas of German Idealism, Existentialism, Hermeneutics,) A significant expression of this interest is the KAPKI (Kantian and Post-Kantian Idealism) Research Group. Further evidence of the fruitfulness of research in this area is represented by the ARC grant, related to the project “The God of Hegel’s Post-Kantian Idealism”, that has been secured by Paul Redding and Paolo Diego Bubbio in 2008.

As a result of the merging of these two successful experiences, the Religion and Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Cluster has been established in 2009. The overall goal of the “Religion and Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Cluster” is to bring together academic staff currently divided by disciplinary and administrative boundaries, to build on complementary research methodologies and to develop research opportunities.

Members

The Cluster is co-directed by Professor Paul Redding and Dr. Paolo Diego Bubbio.

Conferences

The Research Cluster would organize a major public event every year. Through these initiatives, the Research Cluster expresses its two fundamental dimensions:

  1. a public outreach dimension that would engage with diverse philosophical and non-philosophical disciplines
  2. an intellectual research dimension that would bring together academic staff and postgraduate students.
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Symposium: Religion, Aesthetics and Poetics in the Post-Kantian Tradition

The first symposium of the research cluster, will be held on
Friday, 14 August 2009
9.30am – 6.30pm,
Refectory, Quadrangle, A14
University of Sydney.

Recently, philosophical attention has been increasingly directed to the nexus between two movements emerging at the end of the eighteenth century in the wake of Kant's revolutionary philosophy: the "German idealist" philosophising of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel; and the first wave of romanticism-the "early" or "Jena" romanticism-of figures such as Hölderlin, Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. By simultaneously developing and reinterpreting basic Kantian ideas, both movements contributed to transforming thought about central aspects of human existence, and hence have significantly shaped philosophical perspectives of nineteenth century authors, such as Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the space opened by German Idealism and early romanticism for thinking about religion and its relation to the aesthetic and poetic dimension of human self-fashioning, especially considering the regulative and symbolic meanings of religious notions and practices.

All welcome

Speakers

Responses by Paolo Diego Bubbio (University of Sydney) and Lenny Moss (University of Exeter), followed by a Round Table discussion with presenters.

The symposium is sponsored by the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquires at the University of Sydney, and organised by the Religion and Post-Kantian Philosophy Research Cluster.

For more information, contact Paolo Diego Bubbio
Email:
Ph: (02) 9036 6335.

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KAPKI Seminars

The KAPKI Seminars are a series of monthly research meetings focusing on Kantian and post-Kantian Idealism. Initially started by Paul Redding, KAPKI has been running almost continuously for about six years, and it is now coordinated by a former postgraduate in the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Jane Johnson (currently in the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science).
The KAPKI seminars are held on the first Wednesday of each month in the Philosophy Common Room.

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