Lecture
LCCP Research Seminar: After the Universal - On the Language of Co-Existence
- Date
- Friday 5 April 2024
- Time
- Series
- LCCP work in progress and research seminar
- Location
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Gravensteen
Pieterskerkhof 6
2311 SR Leiden - Room
- 0.11
Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce a talk by Yuk Hui, Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions.
After the Universal - On the Language of Co-Existence
This talk endeavors to address the challenge posed by the concept of the universal, which has faced scrutiny in recent decades for its perceived simplicity and validity. The decline of the universal coincides with the emergence of relativism, a trend partially fueled by critiques of colonialism and the Enlightenment. Given the complex political landscape of our current world—no longer accurately described as globalization or mondialization, but rather as planetarization—what can we assert about the universal? Should we seek something beyond what we traditionally understand as universal? After outlining these challenges, I propose a return to Kant to unpack the intricacies of the concept and explore the possibility of its continued relevance.
About
Yuk Hui is Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. Hui is author of several monographs including On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China:-An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2016), Recursivity and Contingency ( 2019), Art and Cosmotechnics (2021) and forthcoming Machine and Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). Since 2014, Hui has been the convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology and sits as a juror of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture since 2020.
All are welcome!