Prof. Dr. Eric Pommier, a research member of the International Center for the Study of Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has recently published the book La démocratie environnementale. Préserver notre part de nature (2022). In this book, Prof. Dr. Pommier argues the need to defend a principle of responsibility towards future generations, life, and the Earth, in the face of the systemic threats of our time. However, it is not evident that a political regime is capable of embodying such an ethical principle.

Some of the questions raised by the author in this work are: How can we represent the interests of future generations if they have not yet been born, how to defend the interests of the living and the Earth since they are not subjects of law, what to think of a regime that claims to defend such interests to the detriment of the rights of classical subjects, i.e. contemporary men? Far from concluding that this new ethical requirement is only an unattainable utopia, Prof. Dr. Éric Pommier proposes in this book the ways of reconciliation through the concept of environmental democracy.

 

Prof. Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa, Italy) and Prof. Alfredo Rocha de la Torre (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia), directors of the International Center for the Study of Contemporary Nihilism of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism, deeply regret the death of our dear friend Prof. Dr. Jacinto Rivera (University of Pisa, Italy). Dr. Jacinto Rivera de Rosales, research member of CeNic. The Prof. Rivera de Rosales was translator into Spanish of works by Kant, Fichte and Schelling, President of the International Fichtean Society and of the Society of Kantian Studies in Spanish Language. en Lengua Española (Society of Kantian Studies in Spanish Language). Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Daimon, of the Fichte-Studien and the Fichte-Studien and of the Advisory Board of several international journals. Dean at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid (Spain). Tireless author of philosophical texts in Spanish, German, Italian, English, French, but above all, a beautiful beautiful human being who radiated to everyone who had the privilege of enjoying his smile, the light of his spontaneous joy. the light of his spontaneous joy. Let one of his poems serve as an expression of our sense of meaning ‘Farewell dear friend’: “Deshecha la palabra y la figura / queda sólo el gesto del silencio. / Mas siempre quedará, aun en cenizas, / todo el amor y el mar que siempre llevó”.

 

Prof. Dr. Žarko Paić, research fellow at the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art: Pictures Without a World by the highly regarded publishing house Springer. As stated in the presentation, this book has as its main themes understanding aesthetic, contemporary art, and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime, but rather thru close relation to the techno-genesis of virtual worlds. On the other hand, Professor Paić argues in this writing that the iconoclasm of contemporary art has severe consequences for art itself.

 

Prof. Dr. Josep María Esquirol Calaf, research member of the International Center for the Study of Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published the book Human, more human: an anthropology of the infinite wound in the publishing house Acantilado. As stated in the publisher’s presentation, this is a work in which the simple everyday questions about the other (how are you?, what’s wrong with you?) infallibly approach the depths of the soul; a work that seeks to go deeper and deeper into the human. Other of his writings such as La penúltima bondad, La resistencia íntima and Uno mismo y los otros, for example, form a whole of deep human warmth.

 

The book is a collection of essays about Jacques Derrida, dealing with three thematic focuses: those of writing, translation, and economy. The title refers to one of the main effects of deconstruction, namely différance: the deviation or displacement of the text from metaphysics, which produces a new configuration and organization of thought.

 

The International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) deeply regrets the death of Prof. Dr. Michele Borrelli on March 2 of this year. Professor Borelli was not only a very distinguished Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and humanist, but also a man of very high and incomparable human qualities. He studied anthropology, romanticism, political science, and pedagogical sciences at the Universitá della Calabria and at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany). Magister Artium (summa cum laude) and Doctor of Philosophy (magna cum laude) at the same university. He taught at the German universities of Gießen, Wuppertal, Frankfurt, and Nürnberg. He was the President of the “International Philosophical Centre Karl-Otto Apel” and of the “Karl-Otto Apel international philosophy prize”. He was the founder and editor of Topologik-International Journal of Philosophy, Educational and Social Sciences. In 2016 he received from the President of the Federal Republic, Joachim Gauck, the award of “Knight of the Order of Merit” of the Federal Republic of Germany for his special merit in the context of the Italian-German scientific exchange.

 

 

Favila editorial invites to the launching of the book El amor ambiguo by Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa, Italy), co-director and researcher of the International Center for the Study of Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). Prof. Dr. Alfredo Rocha de la Torre, professor at the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and also co-director and researcher at CeNic, will participate in the presentation. The launch will take place on Tuesday, February 23, at 4:00 p. m. Colombian time, through the editorial´s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjdJQclbtX0

 

 

Prof. Dr. Dean Komel has just published (2020), together with Prof. Dr. Mira Miladinović Zalaznik, the collective book Europa an den Scheidewegen der gegenwärtigen Welt 100 Jahre nach dem Großen Krieg (Europe at the Crossroads of Contemporary World 100 Years after the Great War). Together with Prof. Dean Komel („Ein Jahrhundert der Krise. Europa und der Geist der Philosophie“) and Prof. Dra. Miladinović („Hundert Jahre nach dem Großen Krieg am Isonzo. Fallbeispiele Maasburg, Schalek, Musil, Kuhar“) publishes also Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris, co-director of CeNic, a contribution entitled “Patterns of Identity for a Multicultural Europe”.

 

Among many other publications, Professor Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer has co-edited with Dr. Dominic Kaegi volume I / 18 of the complete edition of Karl Jaspers’work, dedicated to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche. Einführung in das Verständnis seines Philosophierens. This edition, published by Schwabe publisher, is the result of a joint project between the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.