Jorge Alberto Valcarcel Guzmán, member of the support group of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), is doing a research internship at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer. This research internship is supported by the International Relations Office and the International Language Institute of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, as well as by the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic).

Professor Dr. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, research member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) and director of the International School for Intercultural Philosophy (EIFI), has just published his book Con la autoridad de la melancolía. Los humanismos y sus melancolías (With the authority of melancholy. Humanisms and its melancholies), in which he reflects on this subject in Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers, Fromm, Lévinas, Zambrano and Christian and intercultural humanism, as well as going more deeply into melancholy phenomenon from multiple perspectives. This publication is part of the series Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität (Band 45) published by the EIFI.           

Prof. Dr. Gaetano Chiurazzi, specialist in French and German Philosophy (mainly Derrida, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer) and Professor of the Università degli Studi di Torino, has recently joined the International Center for Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) as a research member. Prof. Dr. Chiurazzi has worked as a researcher at the universities of Torino, Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris and Oxford. He obtained his degree in Philosophy under the direction of Gianni Vattimo with a thesis on Jacques Derrida. Together with Gianni Vattimo he is co-editor of the journal Tropos. Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica.

 

Last October 25th, the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation was presented in Nashville, Tennessee (United States). This Foundation focuses on the philosophical work of Professor Dr. Werner Stegmaier, who is a research member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism. The Foundation has been named after Mike Hodges and his wife Tina Hodges (Chief Executive Officer), renowned financial entrepreneur in United States. Concurrently along with the Foundation’s launch, the English translation of Professor Stegmaier’s book What is Orientation: A Philosophical Investigation (Walter de Gruyter, 2019) was also presented, in which Prof. Dr. Stegmaier synthesizes the main elements of the Philosophy of Orientation. This publication, translated by Dr. Reinhard Müller (now Executive Director of Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation), is the shortened and updated version of the comprehensive book Philosophie der Orientierung (Walter de Gruyter, 2008).

Related Links:

– https://tennesseestar.com/2019/10/26/hodges-launch-new-foundation-dedicated-to-pursuit-of-philosophy-for-common-man/ 

– https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Vorpommern/Greifswald/Amerikanische-Stiftung-fuer-Philosophie-aus-Greifswald

Professor Dr. Helmut Heit, director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche (Weimar, Germany), and member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), is a special guest to the 11th National Congress of Philosophy Students, that will be carried out by the Philosophy School of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (Tunja) from September 16 to September 19. With the support of the CeNic and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, professor Dr. Heit will give a lecture and will take part in the discussion CeNic-Dialogues with members of the Center and some guests. The main topic discussed of this conversation, which has the support of Hercritia – Cátedra Internacional de Hermenéutica Crítica, will be the actuality of German philosophy.

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.