Professor Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer has published –co-working with Matthias Politycki– the book Haltung finden; Weshalb wir sie brauchen und trotzdem nie haben werden. This book deals with a conversation upon the critical foundations of the current German politic, as well as with daily politics and politically correct speeches that rule debates. The books set out the necessities of posing again our daily attitude towards these changing circumstances, in order to rethink them in political speech environments.

Students David Esteban Pineda Medina and Cristhian Danilo Guerrero Bautista, members of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), supported both by the International Relations Office of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and the CeNic, will be doing a research internship during 2019-second semester at the Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), having the tutorship of Professor Dr. Stefano Bancalari. All this process is possible due to the agreement previously settled between the Facoltá di Lettere e Filosofía at the Sapienza Università di Roma and the Philosophy School of the UPTC.

Professor Dr. Adriano Fabris has been named President of the Società Italiana di Filosofia Morale for the period between 2019 and 2022. Professor Fabris is widely recognized as a distinguished researcher in the fields of moral philosophy and philosophy of religion. He is the co-founder and co-director of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). The Società italiana di Filosofia Morale has counted for this position as president with renowned researchers such as Giuseppe Cantillo and Carmelo Vigna.

“Contemporary Nihilism forms” will be the name of the first congress organized by the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). This academic event will take place on the 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2019 at Università di Pisa (Italy). This first congress will lead to two other similar events: the first one will be organized in Villa de Leyva (Boyacá, Colombia) in 2020; the second one at the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia) in 2021. Confirmed lecturers, and the title of their lectures, are the following:

• Andrew Benjamin, Potentiality, Human Being and the Impossibility of Nihilism
• Dean Komel, Die Geschichtlichkeit Europas in der Schatten des Nihilismus
• Giuliano Campioni, In nichilismo europeo in Friedrich Nietzsche
• Helmut Heit, Europa und die Frage nach dem Wozu
• Jacinto Rivera de Rosales, Jacobi contra Fichte: la primera disputa sobre nihilismo
• Seung Chul Kim, The Buddhist understanding of nihilism by Keiji Nishitani
• Teresa Oñate y Zubía, La crítica del nihilismo en Tiempo y Ser. Heidegger repensando a Parménides
• Michele Borrelli, La fine del mito e l’avvento del nichilismo
• Rogerio Schuck, (Pós)modernidade e niilismo em tempos tecnológicos
• Stefano Bancalari, Lived Experiences of Non-Sense: The Shadow of Qohelet on Contemporary Nihilism
• Tsunafumi Takeuchi, Think Rationally But Feel Spiritually – A Nihilistic Dualism in Modern Japan
• Werner Stegmeier, Ist die Demokratie nihilistisch?
• Adriano Fabris, Nichilismo e indifferenza
• Alfredo Rocha de la Torre, Fondamento o abisso (Abgrund)?: la interpretazione heideggeriana del nichilismo nella filosofia di Nietzsche

Prof. Dr.  Andrew Benjamin, Master and Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University, DEA at Université Paris VII (Diderot), and Dr. from the University of Warwick (England), has recently joined to the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), in the roll of researcher. He holds a post as Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Kingston University (London), and until 2017 he held the same position at the Monash University (Australia). His academic research is focus on Ancient Philosophy, German XX-Century Philosophy, and the relation between philosophy and history of art.  He is the editor of the Walter Benjamin Studies (Bloombury) and the Philosophical Projections (Rowman and Littlefield Internacional).

Prof. Dr. Helmut Heit has been named director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche der Klassik-Stiftung in Weimar. Professor Heit is internationally recognized as a prominent expert in the work of the thinker from Röcken, and belongs to the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) in the role of researcher. His main objectives are to deepen the internationalization, research and visibility of the Kolleg.

 

Prof. Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer, researcher of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung (2008-2014), as well as of the Researcher Center Nietzsche-Kommentar of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Forschungsstelle “Nietzsche-Kommentar” der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften), and Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 2016, has just published the book Was bleibt von Nietzsches Philosophie? (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2018).

Prof. Dr. Carlos Másmela Arroyabe, research member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has recently published his book La contradicción (Universidad de Antioquia, 2018). The book is now part of many other publications of this Colombian professor, including: Hegel: La desgraciada reconciliación del espíritu (Madrid, Trotta, 2001), Dialéctica de la imagen. Una interpretación del ‘Sofista’ de Platón (Barcelona, Anthropos, 2006) and La filosofía del Entre en Heidegger. Una interpretación de las ‘Contribuciones de la filosofía’ (Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2016). Prof. Dr. Másmela has also recently finished two books that are soon to be published: Retroceso, eterno retorno y paso atrás. Hegel, Nietzsche y Heidegger and Del autismo del yo al yo poético. Fichte, Novalis, Hölderlin.

 

Prof. Dr. Dean Komel, founder and president of the Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana, founder member of the Central and Eastern European Conference in Phenomenology, of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations, professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in the Faculty of Arts, and researcher of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has recently pusblished in the section entitled “IvanUrbančič – mislilac i nihilizam” (“Ivan Urbančič – Thinker and Nihilism”), the essay “Uvod u studij Urbančičeve filozofije” (“Introduction into Urbančič’ Philosophy”. In: Journal Tvrda, 1/2, 2018, pp. 156-166).

Prof. Dr. Tsunafumi Takeuchi, Ph.D., Master and Bachelor of Letters by the Kyoto University, and visiting researcher from 2015 to 2016 at the Forschungsstelle “Nietzsche-Kommentar” (Germany), has recently joined the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) in the roll of researcher. He works as associate professor at the Ryokoku University (Kioto) and has member of various philosophical associations in Japan, such as the Japan Schopenhauer-Association and the Heidegger-Forum. His academic researches are about Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Weber and Heidegger’s work, and about of the Nihilism.