Critical Debates In Contemporary Philosophy: Historicism And Difference Versus Universalism

Dates: 9 – 30 June 2002

Host Institution: "Euro-Balkan" Institute, Skopje, Macedonia

Location: Ohrid, Macedonia

 

Eligibility

Disciplines: Philosophy (priority), also Gender Studies and other relevant fields of the social sciences

Region/Countries: Central, Eastern Europe, NIS

 

Language(s): English

 

Course Director: Dr. Katerina Kolozova, University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, and "Euro-Balkan" Institute

 

Contact Information for Applicants:

Postal Address: "Euro-Balkan" Institute, blvd. Partizanski odredi 63, Skopje, 1000 Macedonia

Telephone/Fax: +389 2 375 570, +389 2 390 731 (tel. ext. 103; fax ext. 102)

E-mail: osu@sonet.com.mk

Web Site: www.euba.org.mk/osu2002.htm

 

The School is a part of the Ohrid Summer University 2002 offering the following courses: Universalism and Universality as Subjects to Post-Structuralist Critique: Investigating the Possibilities for their Non-Metaphysical Re-conceptualizations, and Performative Subjects: Developments of the Post-Structuralist Theories of Subjectivity in the Context of Feminist Philosophy. The School promotes the introduction of interdisciplinarity (or of a stronger interface with the other social sciences) and of social responsibility for teaching philosophy at the universities in the region of Eastern and Central Europe. It also opens an uncensored debate on the famous conflict between the historicist and universalist positions. The general theme is heterogeneous, encompassing several distinct currents in the philosophical thought of today. However, what all of the proposed topics within the two courses do have in common, and what thus places them under the same rubric, is the critical political-philosophical debate on the questions of universality/universalism on one side, and contingency and historicism on the other. This debate is perhaps among the most significant today in the philosophical considerations of the political and the cultural, and questions of the epistemological and the methodological.