The 2nd Congress of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic): Human Existence and Coexistence in the Epoch of Nihilism
The 2nd Congress of the International Centre for the Study of Contemporary Nihilism “Human Existence and Coexistence in the Epoch of Nihilism” is dedicated to reflecting on the relationship between humanism and nihilism, which nowadays – especially under the influence of scientific-technological progress and global social conditions – is mostly approached from the perspective of post-humanism. Since we are witnessing the violence of dehumanisation all over the world, such a perspective proves to be theoretically and practically inadequate. At the same time, it should be stressed that the epochal experience of nihilism is not only a consequence of the many social crises that we are facing in the contemporary world and the psychopathologies that these crises generate, but it fundamentally predetermines them at an existential and coexistential level. In all human agency, in all that we advocate as ‘cultural growth’, ‘social development’, ‘rise of education’, ‘creative excellence’ ‘scientific and technological progress’, ‘open markets’, ‘democratic rights and freedoms’, along with ‘belief in God’, the question of how man fulfils himself in his humanity has become problematic today in a way that is perhaps historically unprecedented