Herder and naturalism: philosophy, history, language, religion
August 5-9, 2021
This conference will be held virtually, via Zoom. If you would like to register to attend the conference, please contact Nigel DeSouza at ndesouza@uottawa.ca. There are no conference fees.
Program
Thursday, August 5 History, natural history, philosophy of history
9:00-9:20 EST / 15:00-15:20 CET Welcome
9:20-10:00 / 15:20-16:00 Stefanie Buchenau, Mischwesen und Metamorphosen.
Herder und die Entomologie seiner Zeit
10:10-10:50 / 16:10-16:50 John Pizer, Organic vs. scientific naturalism: Herder and Condorcet
11:10-11:50 / 17:10-17:50 Gideon Stiening, Natur und Geschichte. Herders
theonomer Naturalismus in den Ideen zu einer Philosophie der
Geschichte
12:00-13:00 / 18:00-19:00 Keynote: Wolfgang Proß, »Gott ist alles in seinen
Werken« – Ein Kommentar zu Herders Vorrede zu den Ideen
Friday, August 6 Religion & ethics
9:00-9:40 / 15:00-15:40 Martin Keßler, “The book of nature” in Herder’s sermons
9:50-10:30 / 15:50-16:30 Christian Hallstein, Herder and supernaturalism
10:50-11:30 / 16:50-17:30 Christina Weiler, Herder and Spinoza on animal ethics
11:40-12:20 / 17:40-18:20 Stephen Klemm, Naturalism, Poesie, and Herder’s
hermeneutic ethics
12:30-12:50 / 18:30-18:50 Awarding of the first Herder medal
Saturday, August 7 Aesthetics & epistemology
9:00-9:40 / 15:00-15:40 Johannes Schmidt, “[...] once such ugliness exists it endures
forever.” Herder on the artistic expression of ugliness
9:50-10:30 / 15:50-16:30 John Noyes, Herder’s argument for art as nature in the 6th
collection of the Humanitätsbriefe
10:50-11:30 / 16:50-17:30 Margaret Strair, Uniting and dividing the sensorium: self-
knowledge and medium of the senses in Herder’s thought
11:40-12:40 / 17:40-18:40 Keynote: Rachel Zuckert, Naturalism and taste in
Herder's aesthetics
Sunday, August 8 Language & culture
9:00-9:40 / 15:00-15:40 Kaspar Renner, Eine naturalistische Poetik? Zur Dialektik
von Natur und Kultur in Herders Volksliedern
9:50-10:30 / 15:50-16:30 Catherine Girardin, The “nature of theatre”: Herder’s
pursuit of a human theatre
10:50-11:30 / 16:50-17:30 Katherine Arens, Herder, language, and communication
communities: A central European idealism beyond
naturalism
11:40-12:20 / 17:40-18:20 Tristan Torriani, Herder, Jung, and the notion of Kraft in
INTJ musical alchemy
12:30-12:50 / 18:30-18:50 Awarding of the second Herder medal
Monday, August 9 Philosophy
9:00-9:40 / 15:00-15:40 Heinrich Clairmont, „die Menschliche Seele zum All
berechnen“ - über die poietische Qualität von Herders
Naturalismus
9:50-10:30 / 15:50-16:30 Nigel DeSouza, Herder’s philosophy of life and the
cognitive scientific theory of enactivism
10:50-11:30 / 16:50-17:30 Marion Heinz, Analytische und synthetische Methode in
Herders Metakritik. Ein Beitrag zur Versöhnung des Streits
über den Naturalismus
11:40-12:40 / 17:40-18:40 Keynote: John Zammito, Animating nature: Herder’s
naturalism and its vitalizing legacy for Naturphilosophie
13:00 / 19:00 IHS General Assembly
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Redaktion: Constanze Baum – Lukas Büsse – Mark-Georg Dehrmann – Nils Gelker – Markus Malo – Alexander Nebrig – Johannes Schmidt
Diese Ankündigung wurde von H-GERMANISTIK [Mark-Georg Dehrmann] betreut – editorial-germanistik@mail.h-net.msu.edu
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