-----Original Message----- From: Dominic McIver Lopes <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 3:11 pm Subject: [AE] Fwd: CFP: Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
Begin forwarded message: From:B Soren Tinning [[email protected]] Sent:B 14 January 2014 10:01 TrC3pos Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosoficaB Directed by Gianni Vattimo and Gaetano Chiurazzi Call for Papers:B TrC3pos, Year VIII (2015), n. 1 Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations edited by SaE!a Hrnjez and SC8ren Tinning What does b emancipationb mean today? A hermeneutical approach to this question tries above all to investigate the significance of emancipation in relation to human praxis. Yet, in order to answer this question another question arises: b emancipation from what?b . Generally speaking emancipation implies an oppressive or restraining structure, a system of unjustified constraints from which we have to free ourselves. With Enlightenment emancipation emerges on the theoretical horizon first and foremost as the idea of liberation - through Reason - from the old structures of power based on dogmatic faith. But if contemporary hermeneutics, primarily with Gadamer, wants to face critically and in the last instance detach itself from the Enlightenment tradition, what then remains from its emancipatory project? Is it to be abandoned, to be reduced, or rather to be transformed and concretized according to the new conditions set by history? If emancipatory praxis contains the utopian horizon of the overcoming or the abolition of the actual state of things, as it is the case in Marxist thinking, how can hermeneutics contribute in order to better define this utopian b beyondb towards which emancipation aims? Moreover, is the infinite and not conclusive process of interpretation by definition an act of emancipation? Can we say, rephrasing the evangelic message, b Interpretation will set you freeb ? What would be a postmodern perspective on emancipation? All these questions taken together are trying to outline the space of emancipation in the epoch defined sometimes as b post-emancipativeb . An important contribution to this space is found in the arts and contemporary aesthetical reflection. From Brechtbs Verfremdungseffekt to RanciC(rebs b emancipated spectatorb , only to mention a few examples, we find a vast variety of studies and practices, which intend to open new perspectives of emancipation through different aesthetic experiences. Since capitalist societies today prompt the rethinking of emancipatory practices, this volume sets the task to examine the topic of emancipation through a dialogue between different hermeneutical and aesthetical inquiries, while also opening for broader philosophical discussions of the main question here: b what does it mean for us to emancipate ourselves today?b Deadlines Submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2014 Results of blind reviews: Jan 31, 2015 Publication date: June 2015 Further Info http://troposonline.wordpress.com/calls/ _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.aesthetics-online.org/listinfo.cgi/news-aesthetics-online.org
