The journal Phainomena – Revija za fenomenologijo in hermenevtiko has published the third compendium of articles of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) entitled Human Existence and Coexistence in the Epoch of Nihilism / Menschliche Existenz und Koexistenz in der Epoche des Nihilismus / Človeška eksistenca in koeksistenca v epohi nihilizma (Vol. 33, No. 130-131, 2024). The authors and their contributions to this volume are the following:

– Damir Barbarić (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Croatia): Der Wille zum Nichts.
– Jon Stewart (Filozofický Ústav–Slovenskej Akadémie Vied, Slovakia): William James’s Assessment of Nihilism as a Psychological Phenomenon.
– Cathrin Nielsen (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany): „Der Grundriß unseres Lebens ist in der Tat ein ‚Riß‘“. Ansätze zu einer Anthropologie der Negativität bei Eugen Fink.
– Ilia Inishev (Europos Humanitarinis Universitetas, Lithuania): Hermeneutics and Nihilism. Meaning, Agency, and the Dialectics of Negativity in Gadamer’s Thought.
– Petar Bojanić (Универзитет у Београду / Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia): Moments of the Negative. Two Small Nihilist Episodes from the 1940s.
– Holger Zaborowski (Universität Erfurt, Germany): Thinking God—Today?
– Dragan D. Prole (Универзитет у Новом Саду / Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Serbia): Banalisierung und Nivellierung.
– Susanna Lindberg (Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands): Wounded Thinking of the Wounded World. Nihilism and Global Warming.
– Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia): Nihilism, Homelessness, and Place.
– Azelarabe Lahkim Bennani (Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Morocco): Selbstverteidigung und Selbstbestimmung gegen moralischen Nihilismus im Kontext des Strafrechts.
– Josef Estermann (Universität Luzern, Switzerland): Progress as Barbarism. Epistemic Violence and Philosophicide of the West Against Indigenous Cosmo-Spiritualities.
– Chung-Chi Yu (國立中山大學 / National Sun Yat-sen University, China-Taiwan): A Phenomenological Explication of Cultural Difference. With Reference to the Cultural Situation in Taiwan.
– Alfredo Rocha de la Torre (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Sprache und Nihilismus. Eine Kritik an der Homogenisierung der Sprache.
– Jesús Adrián Escudero (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain): Heidegger. Technik, Gestell und Nihilismus.
– Veronica Neri (Università di Pisa, Italy): Images, Artificial Intelligence, and Informational Nihilism.
– Žarko Paić (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Croatia): The Technosphere and Nihilism. Autopoiesis as the End of Metaphysics.
– Werner Stegmaier (Universität Greifswald, Germany): Orientierung als Antwort auf den Nihilismus. Philosophische Neuorientierung mit Nietzsche.
– Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa, Italy): Transformations of the Idea of Humanity in the Age of Technological Nihilism.
– Dean Komel (Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia): Die unzeitgemäße Situation der Philosophie in der Epoche des Nihilismus.

Link to the compendium: https://www.phainomena.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/E-PHI_33_130-131_2024.pdf

 

Prof. Dr. Costantino Esposito, research fellow at the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published The New Nihilism. The Existential Crisis of Our Time (Notre Dame University Press, 2024). This book was originally published in Italian (Il nichilismo del nostro tempo – Carocci, 2021) and has been translated into Spanish (El nihilismo de nuestro tiempo – Ediciones Encuentro, 2021), Russian (Совремеменнный нигилилизм. Хроника – Ripol Classic, 2022), Portuguese (O Nihilismo de nosso tempo – Edições Loyola, 2023) and English for the present edition. In this book, Prof. Esposito argues that nihilism is not simply the loss of classical Western values, but can also be an opportunity to ask pertinent questions about the meaning of man and the world. In this way, the author suggests that, rather than being an obstacle, nihilism can become an opportunity to search for the true meaning of our experience in the world.

 

Prof. Dra. Rita Šerpytytė has recently joined the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) as a research fellow. Professor Šerpytytė holds a PhD in Philosophy from Vilnius University (Lithuania). She has been a full professor of philosophy and Chair of the Department of Continental Philosophy and Religious Studies at the same university. Her research focuses on the philosophy of Heidegger and Hegel, postmodern philosophy, contemporary Italian philosophy (Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben, among others) and the problem of nihilism and negativity in Western philosophy.  

 

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.