Contemporary Philosophy of Culture
undergraduate
undergraduate
This course explores the nature of cultural experience – artistic, interpretive, or educational – within the contemporary landscape of technology, virtuality, fragmentation, subjectivity, and globalisation. We question whether a fundamental aspect of our existential and cultural experiences is fading due to the pervasive influence of technology and broader socio-economic shifts. This vital aspect, distinct from self-centered subjectivity, may depend on our capacity for openness to ‘otherness’. The course investigates the relevance of fostering such an ethical awareness in a world dominated by transient, casual modes of self-expression. Ultimately, it asks: do our existential and cultural formations gain meaning only when situated in the context of otherness – be it a community, a person, a field, or a broader social, economic, or political reality?
Lectures
The Integrity of the Person at the Age of Virtual Productivity
Contemporary Education as Mutual Formations in Self-expression
Grace and Trust in the Formation of the Self-identity of Absolute Contradictories: On the Cultural Relevance of the Ethical Phenomenologies of Gabriel Marcel and Nishida Kitaro
Self-Retraction as the Act of Seeing the Taking Place of Meaning - Between Ethics and Zen
Creativity, Technology and Self-awakening to the Other
After the Crisis of Truths in Contemporary Art, The Way to Wisdom
Contemporary Western Culture and the Possibility of a Responsible Humanism
Hope and Despair in Postmodernity
Dwelling in the Light of the Thou, or the Art of the Opening Space: Ethics and Experience in Contemporary Culture
For an Ethics of Hope and Availability in a Multi-Relational Culture