Lecture
LCCP Colloquium "Phenomenology and ecology: a zoocentric perspective? "
- Annabelle Dufourcq
- Date
- Thursday 30 October 2025
- Time
- Location
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P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden - Room
- 0.06
The Leiden Centre of Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Annabelle Dufourcq, Professor Metaphysics and philosophical anthropology at the Radboud University.
A major challenge today is to move beyond the anthropocentric bubble in which many contemporary human cultures remain trapped, a source of blindness, denial, and ecological inefficiency. Calls for a return to realism have profoundly reshaped contemporary ecology, yet their suspicion toward subjectivity and subject-centered approaches can also hinder the emergence of new ecological worldviews and agencies. This paper proposes an alternative path by adopting a renewed phenomenological approach grounded in animal subjectivity. Engaging with the works of Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Derrida, and Haraway, I investigate the role of the imaginary as an interface between non-human and human animal subjects, and as a crucial site for rethinking the relations between imagination, embodiment, and ecological thought.
All are welocome!