Loidolt_Veranstaltungen_Projekte

Events:

Lecture- and Workshop-Series: Practical Philosophy and Phenomenology , TU Darmstadt

We invite guests to present the topic of a recent publication to us during an evening lecture. On the morning of the following day, the discussion is further deepened during a workshop with comments.

23./24. Juni 2026: Lambert Wiesing (Universität Jena): „Stile des In-der-Welt-seins. Phänomenologie des Selbstbewusstseins“
29./30. April 2026: Michela Summa (Universität Würzburg): ”Husserls Zugang zur epistemischen Verantwortung: Erkennen, Glauben und Stellungnahme“
5. Feb. 2026: Martin Saar (Goethe Universität Frankfurt): „Was ist Sozialphilosophie?“
15./16. Jan. 2026: Thomas Bedorf (FernUniversität Hagen): „Sehen und Gesehen-Werden Eine politische Phänomenologie der Haltung“
20. Nov. 2025: Jakub Čapek (Karlsuniversität Prag): „Perspektive, Endlichkeit und perspektivischer Realismus“
24. Juni 2025: Michael Weinman (Indiana University Bloomington & Bard College Berlin): „Why Hannah Arendt’s understanding of Augustine matters now“
23./24. Juni 2025: Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin): ”Sekundäre Qualitäten und Erkenntnistheorie“
2. Juni 2025: Tao du Four (University of Cambridge) und Iulia Statica (University of Sheffield): „Intersubjective and intergenerational understandings of architecture, landscape and territory“
8./9. Mai 2025: Shmuel Lederman (Haifa University): ”Arendt's writings on Zionism“
23./24. Januar 2025: Christian Volk (HU Berlin): ”Ziviler Ungehorsam“
21./22. November 2024: Matthias und Johanna Schlossberger (Frankfurt (Oder)): ”Konservative Revolution“
2./3. Mai 2024: Jörg Sternagel (Konstanz): ”Auf dem Weg zum Anderen. Ethik der Alterität.“
16./17. Januar 2024: Dirk Stederoth (Kassel): ”Wir Avatare. Zur Introjektion des Digitalen im Menschen“
23./24. November 2023: Steffen Herrmann (Hagen): ”Demokratischer Streit. Eine Phänomenologie des Politischen“
24. Oktober 2023: Kristian Köchy (Kassel): ”Beseelte Tiere“
11./12. Mai 2023: Dr. Matthias Flatscher (Würzburg/Wien): ”Logiken der Solidarität“
10. Februar 2023: Prof. Dr. Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt): ”Law in War: Phenomenological Perspectives“
8./9. April 2021: Dr. Gerhard Thonhauser (TU Darmstadt): ”Sein und Zeit. Ein systematischer Kommentar“ (Buchprojekt)
16./17. Januar 2020: Prof. Dr. Julian Hanich (Universität Groningen): ”Collective Viewing, Joint Deep Attention and the Ongoing Value of the Cinema“
11./12. Juli 2019: Prof. Dr. Oliver Marchart (Wien): ”Demokratie demokratisieren. Zur Geschichte und Zukunft radikaler Demokratie“
1./2. November 2018: Prof. Dr. Inga Römer (Université Grenoble Alpes): ”Das Begehren der reinen praktischen Vernunft. Kants Ethik in phänomenologischer Sicht"

Crisis and Critique

Biannual Conference of the German Society for Phenomenological Research Darmstadt, 24.-27.9.2025

Hannah Arendt war selbst nicht der Ansicht, sie sei in den „Kreis der Philosophen“ aufgenommen. Dies äußert sie im bekannten Fernsehinterview mit Günter Gaus und führt auch einige Gründe dafür an, warum sie sich selbst nicht als „Philosophin“, sondern als „politische Theoretikerin“ bezeichnet.

In der Ringvorlesungsreihe des Instituts für Philosophie wollen wir mit Institutsmitgliedern sowie Gästen aus dem In- und Ausland dieser Situierung anlässlich Arendts 50. Todestages nachgehen.

In jeder Sitzung wird eine Denkerpersönlichkeit mit Arendt ins Gespräch gebracht, wodurch vor allem ihre philosophische Seite betont werden soll.

Gasthörer:innen sind herzlich willkommen!

Programm:

15.10. Sophie Loidolt (Darmstadt): Einführung

22.10. Nils Baratella (Düsseldorf): Marx – entfällt!

29.10. Gerhard Thonhauser (Darmstadt): Heidegger
05.11. Tereza Matejcková (Prag): Hegel
12.11. Nils Baratella (Düsseldorf): Marx ab 16:15 Uhr
12.11. Alexander Friedrich (Darmstadt): Aristoteles ab 18:05 Uhr
19.11. Jakub Capek (Prag): Patocka
26.11. Marcus Düwell (Darmstadt): Plessner
03.12. Liesbeth Schoonheim (Berlin): Beauvoir
10.12. Carsten Dutt (Darmstadt): Jaspers
17.12. Andrea Esser (Jena): Kant
14.01. Frisbee C.C. Sheffield (Cambridge): Platon
21.01. Frieder Vogelmann (Freiburg): Foucault
28.01. Dirk Jörke (Darmstadt): Nietzsche
04.02. Martin Saar (Frankfurt): Spinoza
11.02. Roy Tsao (New York): Augustinus

Hier (PDF file) (opens in new tab) können Sie das Programm herunterladen.

Zur Vorbereitung geht es hier (opens in new tab) zum Interview mit Arendt und Gaus.

Zusätzliche Informationen:
Als ergänzendes Angebot findet unmittelbar vor der Ringvorlesung (16:15 Uhr – 17:45 Uhr) in HS 313 | 10 die Vorlesung „Hannah Arendt als Philosophin“ statt. Dieser Kurs befasst sich systematisch mit den philosophischen Bezügen, Kontexten und Hintergründen in Arendts Werk.

Die Ringvorlesung findet in Präsenz statt, teils in deutscher und teils in englischer Sprache. Es wird Aufzeichnungen der Vorlesungen geben, die gegen Ende des Semesters zum Nachhören hochgeladen werden.

In cooperation with the FernUniversität Hagen and the University of Cologne.
2023

In phenomenology, two lines of thought have recently emerged, both dealing with the experience and structures of political conflicts and with social relations of domination: critical phenomenology on the one hand and political phenomenology on the other. Both claim to respond to the crises of the present and to inner-phenomenological desiderata.

Classical phenomenology, despite its turn to lived experience and embodied subjectivity, has failed to adequately address these dimensions of experience. Both political and critical phenomenology aim to compensate for this deficiency. They aim to show that phenomenology not only analyzes consciousness, subjectivity, lifeworld, and intersubjectivity, but can also illuminate the multiple experiences of marginalized subjects, historicize perceptual schemas, and thematize political experiences.

The online lecture series is intended to open a debate on critical and political phenomenology in which, on the one hand, methodological and content-related differences are to be worked out and, on the other hand, common goals are to be brought into view. In particular, the advantages and benefits of a critical-political phenomenology over constructivist and normative theories of the social and political will be discussed.

The invited speakers will each develop their concept of a critical and/or political phenomenology in a lecture. Each lecture will be accompanied by a response and then opened to public discussion: In this way, critical and political phenomenology will be “in debate.”

Hosted by Thomas Bedorf (Hagen), Thiemo Breyer (Cologne), Steffen Herrmann (Hagen) and Sophie Loidolt (Darmstadt).

Further information

Invited speakers:

16.10. Elisa Magrì (Boston College)

Describing the project of critical phenomenology: challenges and promises

Response: Vanessa Ossino (University of Cologne)

30.10. Gail Weiss (George Washington University)

Curating Embodied Resistance Through Social Media: The Role of Virtual Audiences in the Fight for Social Justice

Response: Hannes Wendler (University of Cologne)

20.11. Johanna Oksala (Loyola University Chicago)

A Critical Phenomenology of Climate Change

Response: Marcus Düwell (TU Darmstadt)

11.12. Lanei Rodemeyer (Duquesne University)

Analyzing the ‘Critical’ in Phenomenology

Response: Gerhard Thonhauser (TU Darmstadt)

15.01. Marieke Borren (OU Netherlands)

Understanding embodied agonistic politics. Perspectives from political and critical phenomenology

Response: Steffen Herrmann (FernUniversität Hagen)

05.02. Neal DeRoo (ICS Canada)

The Case for a Phenomenological Politics

Response: Thomas Bedorf (FernUniversität Hagen)

Lecture Series Winter 2019/2020: Experiencing the Public Sphere

The public sphere has undergone a massive structural change through social media and the “Web 2.0.” New technologies have given rise to novel forms of communication, interaction, and opinion-building. With these structural changes, experiences of the public and of being in the public have changed. The public is now globalized as well as personalized like never before. Participation and interaction have never been so easy, but go hand in hand with rising concerns about being manipulated, tracked, or being caught in a bubble. These novel practices and the experiences invoked by them continue to blur and reconfigure the classic distinctions between the public and the private, the real and the virtual, as well as the economic, the social and the political—and often simultaneously.

The lecture series throws a new light on the history of 20th century theories of the public sphere as one of the pivotal pillars of our democracies (Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Jürgen Habermas, Richards Sennett, Neil Postman etc.). Furthermore, it aims at addressing today’s challenges. By invoking Oskar Negt’s and Alexander Kluge’s book “Public Sphere and Experience” from 1972, a focus on experiencing the public sphere and public space shall be taken. On the one hand, this allows to reclaim the public realm as a space of experience, practice, and interaction, in addition to its conceptualization as an institutional structure or information system. On the other hand, this urges us to thematize material, bodily, technological, discursive, political, economic, hegemonic etc. conditions of experience that shape public spheres and that may function as mechanisms of in- and exclusion.

Last but not least, the focus on “public sphere and experience” also raises questions concerning the actions, the emotions, and the episteme classic and new public settings allow for: How are forms of (collective) action experienced and reflected, given that potentially unlimited outreach is limited by a merciless economy of attention? What are the impacts of public spheres and “counterpublics” that pop up, become “viral,” and quickly vanish again? How do acting persons appear and how important is face-to-face interaction? Can a unique “who” ever appear in the quantified world of “likes” or will it always be a distorting objectified, commercialized image, a “what”? How do digital environments shape epistemic attitudes (what can we know and how?), doxic positions (how do we form opinions?), and strategic practices (how do we act/mobilize?)? What are the forms of “feeling together” on the internet? How important is trust when truth becomes a contested issue?

Online Workshop, Feb 10th, 2023

What is the experience of law in war? Is it the absence, suspension, or silence of law in face of unknown violence and a constant state of exception? Or does law remain an experience of everydayness in human interaction and a promise against war?

In legal theory, the relation between law and war is a long-standing topic, as is the normativity of law, which asserts its own domain of “ought” against a domain of “being.” But if we consider law “not as an object of our knowledge or technical domination, but as something that happens to us in the world” (Satokhina), i.e., from a phenomenological point of view, the intertwined dimensions of validity and facticity manifest themselves in the experience and existence of human beings who live together, in peace and war.

The aim of the workshop is to describe, conceptualize, and analyze the structure and essence of these experiences in their “corporeal, liminal, concretely situated” (Stovba) and transcendent dimensions, between “world and worldlessness, infinity and totality, law and lawlessness” (Satokhina) and to ask how, from this phenomenological perspective, law relates to war.

The workshop is structured around two initial texts written by Ukrainian philosophers and phenomenologists of law, Nataliia Satokhina and Oleksiy Stovba. Both will present a short version of their texts to which the panelists will then reply with short inputs (10-15 mins), which is followed by panel discussion and open discussion. Both contributions and discussions aim to focus on how phenomenological tools, concepts and methods can help us up approach and better understand the phenomenon of law in war.

Participants

Nathalie Barbosa de la Cadena (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Nicolas De Warren (Penn State University, US)
Saulius Geniusas (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Nataliia Satokhina (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Tatiana Shchyttsova (European Humanities University, Vilnius)
Michael Staudigl (University of Vienna, Austria)
Oleksiy Stovba (National Aerospace University, Kharkiv Aviation Institute, Ukraine)

Program
14.00-14.05: Welcome and Opening (Sophie Loidolt)

Opening statements:
14.05-14.20: Nataliia Satokhina: “Phenomenology of Peace and War: Experience of Law and Experience of Lawlessness”
14.20-14.35: Oleksiy Stovba: “Is Law Possible during the War? Specificity of the Corporal Experience”

Responses from the panel and discussion I:
14.35-15.45
Nathalie Barbosa de la Cadena: “Phenomenology and Human Rights”
Nicolas De Warren
Saulius Geniusas

Responses from the panel and discussion II:
15.55-17.00
Sophie Loidolt
Tatiana Shchyttsova
Michael Staudigl