• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Monday 5 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The centenary of Hans Blumenberg’s (1920-1996) birth provide an occasion to revisit some aspects of his life and thought.
  zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Power of Rhetoric. Hans Blumenberg, Ernst Cassirer and the Legacy of Herder
  zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Jeffrey Barash (Amiens)

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rhetorical concept and platonic concept of politics - from Blumenberg to the ‘post-truth era’
  zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Jean-Claude Monod (ENS)

Monday 26 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Illegitimate Intelligence: Hans Blumenberg and AI
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Leif Weatherby (NYU)

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Original Context and Contemporary Relevance of Hans Blumenberg's Präfiguration
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Angus Nicholls (QMUL), Felix Heidenreich (Stuttgart)

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Giving Pause: Blumenberg and Freud
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Paul Fleming (Cornell)

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - of History, Metaphors, Fables. A Hans Blumenberg Reader (2020)
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Hannes Bajohr (Basel), Florian Fuchs (Princeton), Joe Kroll (princeton), cholas Halmi (oxford), Audrey Borowski (oxford)

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Blumenberg 'in the Horizon'
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Eva Geulen (ZFL Berlin)

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Hans Blumenberg’s eschatology – On the Metaphor of the World’s Doom
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Willem Styfhalls (Leuven)

Monday 7 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Goethe and Philosophy? Blumenberg’s version
  zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
  Pini Ifergan (Bar-Ilan)