9-11 May 2019
0900-1800
Rm 220, Fung King Hey Building
Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, RIH
Co-organized by The Department of Philosophy, CUHK; Sponsored by Faculty of Arts, CUHK, and New Asia College, CUHK
+852-39437149
mycheung@arts.cuhk.edu.hk
Phenomenology is born in the age of crisis: crisis of European sciences, crisis of rationality, but also of crisis of humankind in general. The consciousness of crisis accompanies practically the whole development of the phenomenological movement itself. This consciousness of crisis is not that of a solipsist philosopher retreated into her private soul skeptical of the existence of the external world, but the awareness by the mundane subject—the citizen—of the manifold issues—institutional, technological, ecological, anthropological, spiritual—confronting the contemporary world. This awareness is at the origin of the organization of this International Conference on “Phenomenology and the Political”.
By “the political” we do not mean political philosophy in the narrow sense of the term, but the much broader sense of “res publica”, i.e., issues concerning the public world in general. By phenomenology we do not mean orthodox theoretical positions belonging to any particular thinker associated with the phenomenological movement, but an open attitude of looking straight into the issues in question and reflective analyses on them. We also welcome comparative or contrasting approaches to these issues with that of phenomenology. Thus this conference means to be a collective effort to reflect on issues confronting humanity in crisis today.