Idealism Summer Seminar 2025: Technology, Nature and Politics
Date: 2 July 2025
Time: 14:15-19:00
Venue: Sanders Building 0.12, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Brief Description:
This Summer Research Seminar on idealism gathers researchers who have been working on the concepts of nature, technology and politics in idealist thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Schelling, as well as the relevance of their thought to the contemporary world. It also marks the first event of the newly established Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Technology.
Host:
Prof. Dr. Yuk Hui, Milan Stürmer
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Technology
Erasmus School of Philosophy
14:15 – 14:30 Yuk Hui: Introduction
14:30 – 15:30 Marie Louise Krogh: Hegel, Fichte, and the Political Economy of Empire
15:30 – 16:30 Katharina Dany Martin: The Political in German Idealism
17:00 – 18:00 Bart Zanvoort: When is the right time for a revolution? Quantity-quality transitions in Hegel and the Marxist tradition
18:00 – 19:00 Norihito Nakamura: The Un-grounded Man: Schelling and Dostoevsky in the Age of AI Democracy
