In the framework of the XXV World Congress of Philosophy, which is taking place since August 1^st, 2024 in Rome (Italy), the round table entitled “Thinking in Spanish from Latin America” will be held on Wednesday, August 7^th (9 to 11 a.m.), in the facilities of the Sapienza Università di Roma (Aula 3 CU005 Geologia e Mineralogia). The speakers of this CeNic-Round Table are the following:

Coordinator:

– Alfredo Rocha de la Torre (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Lenguaje y mundo (Language and World).

Lectures:

– Diego Valencia (Universidad de San Buenaventura, Colombia): Pensar–Filosofar desde lo “propio” del ser humano (Thinking-Philosophising from the “own” of the human being).

– Jesús Miguel Rodríguez (Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico): Pensar desde la situación. Una indagación hermenéutica de Heidegger y Gadamer (Thinking from the situation. A hermeneutic enquiry into Heidegger and Gadamer).

– Marcela Lisseth Brito de Butter (Universidad Centroamericana, San Salvador): Filosofar en español: el lugar que da verdad en la filosofía de Ignacio Ellacuría (To philosophize in Spanish: the place that gives truth in the philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría).

– Rogerio Schuck (UNIVATES, Brazil): Una mirada a partir de Gadamer a los tiempos de las Tecnologías Digitales en América Latina (A Look from Gadamer to the Times of Digital Technologies in Latin America).

 

Panel Beyond the borders of nihilism: the development of a philosophy of the future (3rd CeNic Congress)

 

Within the framework of the 25th World Congress of Philosophy, which will take place from August 1 to 8, 2024, in Rome (Italy), the 3rd International Congress of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) will be held. The panel will take place on August 5, 2024, from 1 pm to 7 pm, Department C, Room 33. The speakers of this Panel-CeNic, titled “Beyond the Borders of Nihilism: The Development of a Philosophy of the Future”, are the following:

Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa, Italy; USI, Lugano, Switzerland), I margini del nichilismo e la filosofia del futuro

Alfredo Rocha de la Torre (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja), Futuro della filosofía e ritorno dello stupore

Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), L’impossibilità dell’ateismo: ripensare l’essere con Dio

Chung-Chi Yu (Sun Yat-Sen University) On Husserl’s Discourse of Cultural Difference and the Relation to Nihilism

Daniel Conway (Texas University, USA), “The Meaning of our Cheerfulness”: Nietzsche’s Provisional Affirmation of the Death of God

Gaetano Chiurazzi (Università di Torino, Italy), Esiti del nichilismo: dissoluzione o sytabilizzazione delle differenze

Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin, Ireland), Sacrificing Nihilism

Rebeca Maldonado Rodriguera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), El olvido de la diferencia como nihilismo en Heidegger

Rogerio José Schuck (Univates, Brazil), A essência da técnica em tempos de tecnologias digitais: (Re)pensando o modo de ser contemporâneo

Stefano Bancalari (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy), The vanishing of borders as the fundamental experience of nihilism

Teresa Oñate y Zubia (UNED, Madrid, España), Nihilismo y Resurrección

 

 

Prof. Dr. Éric Pommier, research fellow at the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published L’humanisme après Heidegger (Levinas, Jonas, Arendt et Patočka) (PUF, 2024). The book discusses humanism after Heidegger and rethinks it in the light of the challenges raised by the advance of technology, transhumanism and the integration of ecological demands. For this purpose, the author engages in a discussion between Levinas, Arendt, Jonas and Patočka, with the aim of restoring to humanism the meaning it seems to have lost in contemporary times.

Link to the book: https://www.puf.com/lhumanisme-apres-heidegger-levinas-jonas-arendt-et-patocka

 

 

Prof. Dr. Costantino Esposito, research fellow at International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has edited a thematic issue of the journal Studium Ricerca dedicated to contemporary nihilism. This compendium of articles, written in several languages, aims to think about nihilism on the basis of its legacy, its transformations and the current problems it brings up. It was released on the occasion of the publication of Professor Esposito’s book Il nichilismo del nostro tempo. Una cronaca (2021).

Link to the journal: https://www.edizionistudium.it/riviste/studium-ricerca-n-3-2023

 

Inštitut Nove Revije, zavod za humanistiko is becoming an associated institution of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). Inštitut Nove Revije, based in Ljubljana (Slovenia), is a highly steemed organization dedicated to interdisciplinary research and studies in the fields of humanities, social sciences and arts. Additionally, it oversees the publication of academic books and journals such as Phainomena and organizes congresses, conferences and other academic events. Under the general direction of Tomaž Zalaznik, Dean Komel and Mira Miladinović Zalaznik its Forum for the Humanities boasts 139 members from 39 countries.

 

Prof. Dr. Žarko Paić, research fellow at the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published The Uncanny: Contemporary Art and Its Theory (Amazon Publishing, 2023). The book deals extensively with problems of contemporary art theory: the body in the space and time of digital technologies, the theory of a new image, new media and aesthetics. The basic thesis of Prof. Paić is that the entry into the era of total visualization of the world marks the end of the metaphysical idea of the perdurability of Being in works of art, whereby it is now about the signature and superimposition of new ‘life-worlds’; a new form of construction of artificial life with which we can no longer consider art and aesthetics as the contemplation of the object, but only as the power to create new relations between autonomous objects and the imagination.

 

Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris, co-director of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published Ethics of Eating and Drinking. Food and Relations (Springer, 2024). The book discusses key ethical problems associated with the act of eating and drinking, arguing that food acts should be understood as relationships, that is, as a way in which man relates to others, and therefore these acts are linked to ethics.

The present edition is the English translation of the book originally published in Italian (Etica del mangiare. Cibo e relazione, Edizioni ETS, 2019), which has also been translated into Slovenian (Etika uživanja hrane, Inštitut Nove Revije, 2023) and soon into Spanish.

 

Teoria. Rivista di filosofia has published the second compendium of articles of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) entitled War: Another Form of Nihilism? (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023). The authors and their contributions to this volume are the following:

-Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa, Italy): Premise: War: Another Form of Nihilism?

-Dean Komel (Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia): War of Nihilism

-Žarko Paić (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Croatia): War, the Technosphere, and the Question of Evil. Three Paradigms of War

-Lúcio Jorge Hammes, Rogério José Schuck (Universidade Federal do Pampa / Universidade do Vale do Taquari, Brazil): Fundamentos para a paz: limites e possibiliades

-Werner Stegmaier (Universität Greifswald, Germany): Nihilismus in Zeiten des Krieges. Im Gespräch mit Nietzsche

-Fernando Gilabert Bello (Universidad de Málaga, Spain): Llenaremos de sal vuestros campos. Reflexiones en torno a la guerra y el nihilismo

-Rebeca Maldonado (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): La nada como torsión y límite de la modernidad. Pensar desde la experiencia de la guerra el comienzo. Sobre los textos ontohistóricos de Heidegger del 41

-Gaetano Chiurazzi (Università degli studi di Torino, Italy): Doppia negazione: tra nichilismo e istituzione

-Alfredo Rocha de la Torre (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Guerra y nihilismo: hacia un más allá de la razón

 

Within the framework of the 2nd Congress of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) with the collaboration of the Inštitut Nove Revije -Zavod za humanistiko, the Italian Cultural Institute in Ljubljana and the Italian Embassy in Slovenia, the Slovenian translation of the book by Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris (co-director of CeNic), Etica del mangiare [Etika uživanja hrane], was released. This translation of the book has been carried out by Jurij Verč and revised by Mira Miladinović Zalaznik, in addition to a foreword by Prof. Dr. Dean Komel (research fellow at CeNic). https://youtu.be/8F83yrBPLPQ