Natural Histories of the Human Mind
From Kant to Benjamin

Workshop at the University of Potsdam on July 3rd and 4th, 2022

The program is as follows:

Monday, July 3, 2022
10.15 – 11.30 – The Physiology of Reason: Natural History and the Transformation of the Transcendental Question (Thomas Khurana)

11.45 – 13.00 – Kant and the Transformation of Natural History (Andrew Cooper)

13.00 – 14.30 – Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.45 – Teleology Transformed: The Methodological Unity of the Kritik der Urteilskraft (Johannes Haag)

16.00 – 17.15 – The Revisable A Priori and the Historical A Priori: Kant, Cassirer, Foucault (Sabina Bremner)

17.45 – 19.00 – Truth in Action (Matthias Haase)

Tuesday, July 4, 2022
10.15 – 11.30 – Inheriting Concepts (Lucian Ionel)

11.45 – 13.00 – First and Second Nature in Benjamin (Eli Friedlander)

Space is limited. If you are interested in participating, please register via e-mail to lehrstuhl.geist.anthropologie@gmail.com