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Discipline: Philosophy
Academic Area: Social Philosophy,
Critical Theory of Society, Philosophical Anthropology, Hermeneutical Philosophy
Participants: Young academics (under 35 years old) teaching
courses in philosophy or cultural studies at the university level institutions
and living in the following countries: Belarus, Russia (European Part), Ukraine,
Moldova and Baltic States.
Project period: July 2003 — February 2006
Working Language(s): Russian (Mandatory),
English, German (Auxiliary).
Program Director: Anatoli Mikhailov, Rector
of EHU
Core resource faculty:
Prof. Vladimir Fours (EHU);
Associate Prof. Ilya Inishev (EHU);
Associate Prof. Tatiana Shchyttsova (EHU).
Resource faculty of the first summer session (July
2003):
Prof. Dr. Jean Grondin (Montreal, Canada);
Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg, Germany);
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Krueger (Potsdam, Germany).
Project Description:
The main goal of the project in general is modernization of philosophy teaching
in post-Soviet countries. Radical transformations in contemporary philosophy have
resulted from reflection upon dramatic changes of social reality, which is becoming
increasingly dynamic and pluralistic. For centuries, the dominant paradigm of
monological thinking of classical philosophy has been evolving into dialogical
approach, based on communication and language.
Core Activities:
1. Summer sessions;
2. Winter workshops;
3. Participation of seminar members in activity of regional research seminars
organized by EHU.
4. Internet forum.
General goals of this activities are:
• Discussion of contemporary research strategies
and recent developments in the field of communicative philosophy;
• Explication of the innovative potential of contemporary
communicative philosophy for philosophical education in the region;
• Development, discussion and optimization of new curricula
for courses delivered by participants at their home universities.
Schedule of summer sessions and workshops:
• July 2003: summer session Person, Interpersonality,
Communication (Program);
• February 2004: workshop. Discussion of new curricula,
developed by participants, and experience in realizing these curricula at their
home universities; discussing the program of summer session 2004 (Program).
• July 2004: summer session Communication in the Globalizing
Social World;
• February 2005: workshop. Discussion of new curricula,
developed by participants, and experience in realizing these curricula at their
home universities; crude summary of the seminar work; discussing the program of
summer session 2005.
• July 2005: summer session Communicative turn in contemporary
philosophy and goals of philosophical courses;
• February 2006: final workshop. Discussion of new curricula,
developed by participants, and experience in realizing these curricula at their
home universities; summing-up the seminar work; discussing possibilities of the
long-range participants' co-operation and further dissemination of innovative
ideas worked out at the seminar.
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The thematic program of the project falls into three parts in
which its general theme is supposed to be developed step by step. The first part
is devoted to basic characteristics of the person and Self-Other-relations. It
must provide the ground for considering, in the second part, the specific features
of communication in the context of globalization of the contemporary social world.
The last part will be devoted to a detailed analysis of the communicative aspect
of contemporary philosophy and goals of philosophical courses at the higher school.
The first session (Person, Interpersonality, Communication, July 2003)
is designed to demonstrate the most influential contemporary approaches to the
analysis of the basic structures of personal being and interpersonal relations
(in social philosophy, philosophical anthropology and hermeneutics). Then follow
explication and discussion of some aspects of communication, which are of the
greatest scientific and didactical significance: the phenomenon of irreducible
alterity of the Other, forms and factors of understanding the Other; social and
ethical implications of communicative relations; dialogicity and non-hierarchical
thinking in liberal education.
The subject of the second session (Communication in the Globalizing Social
World, July 2004) includes actual problems the communication theory is faced
with in the light of the globalization process: diversity of forms of everydayness
and publicity as two "mediums" of communication; irreducible personal
differences as a constitutive feature of public sphere; social and ethical implications
of communicative relations in the light of phenomenon of multiculturality; interpersonal
understanding as interaction and significance of interactive methods in philosophy
teaching.
The third session (Communicative Turn in Contemporary Philosophy and Goals
of Philosophical Courses, July 2005) is focused on the transformation of the
character and functions of philosophy caused by the communicative turn and its
reflection in philosophical courses. The main aspects of this theme are the following:
reflective politicization of philosophical knowledge, interdisciplinary strategy
in contemporary philosophy and its role in overcoming disciplinal borders, relationship
between content and didactics of philosophical courses.
Participation of seminar members in activity of three regional
research seminars, organized by EHU and focused on the following thematic fields:
• social philosophy and Critical Theory
• philosophical anthropology
• phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy
The goal of this form of work is preliminary discussion of presentations to
be made by participants at summer sessions and winter workshops, and publications
designed for the seminar web-site or scientific journals.
Each participant is expected to present once a year a paper, dedicated to the
project topics.
Contact information:
Contact person: Evgeny Borisov
Postal address: 24 Skoriny pr., Minsk 220030, Belarus
Telephone: +375 172 35 73 58
Fax: +375 172 29 23 55
E-mail: borisov@ehu.by
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