Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padova, co-coordinator of Hegelpd (https://www.hegelpd.it/hegel/) and Australian Hegel Society (https://www.australianhegelsociety.com/). Former Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Freie Universität Berlin / Boston University (PRIME DAAD Fellow) and post-doc at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. I work on Classical German Philosophy (Hegel and Kant), Contemporary Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy (Paulo Freire and bell hooks).
We are very glad to present this special issue of «Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane», Critique... more We are very glad to present this special issue of «Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane», Critique: Hegel and Contemporary Critical Theory. This issue is devoted to an in-depth study of the notion of ‘critique’ and its historical and systematic development from classical German philosophy, and in particular from Hegel, to the most recent interpretations and reuses in the framework of contemporary Critical Theory.
G. Miolli, L. Illetterati (edited by), The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy: From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Metaphilosophy, London: Bloomsbury, 2021
in L. Illetterati, M. Quante, B. Santini, A. Esposito, A. Manchisi, (edited by), Morale, etica, religione tra filosofia classica tedesca e pensiero contemporaneo, Padova University Press, 2020, 91-104.
Weitermachen: The Task of Social Philosophy Revisited: An International Symposium in Commemoratio... more Weitermachen: The Task of Social Philosophy Revisited: An International Symposium in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Institute for Social Research (1923-2023). 24-25 November 2023 - University College Dublin
HEGELPD – AUSTRALIAN HEGEL SOCIETY – SOCIEDADE HEGEL BRASILEIRA JOINT CONFERENCE: “CRITIQUES OF R... more HEGELPD – AUSTRALIAN HEGEL SOCIETY – SOCIEDADE HEGEL BRASILEIRA JOINT CONFERENCE: “CRITIQUES OF REASON: HEGEL AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY” (PADOVA AND ONLINE, 29-30 JUNE / 01 JULY 2022)
Book Discussion: Angelica Nuzzo's Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Becket... more Book Discussion: Angelica Nuzzo's Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett. Hegelpd - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76N7zbpkP0
We are very glad to present this special issue of «Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane», Critique... more We are very glad to present this special issue of «Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane», Critique: Hegel and Contemporary Critical Theory. This issue is devoted to an in-depth study of the notion of ‘critique’ and its historical and systematic development from classical German philosophy, and in particular from Hegel, to the most recent interpretations and reuses in the framework of contemporary Critical Theory.
G. Miolli, L. Illetterati (edited by), The Relevance of Hegel’s Concept of Philosophy: From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Metaphilosophy, London: Bloomsbury, 2021
in L. Illetterati, M. Quante, B. Santini, A. Esposito, A. Manchisi, (edited by), Morale, etica, religione tra filosofia classica tedesca e pensiero contemporaneo, Padova University Press, 2020, 91-104.
Weitermachen: The Task of Social Philosophy Revisited: An International Symposium in Commemoratio... more Weitermachen: The Task of Social Philosophy Revisited: An International Symposium in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Institute for Social Research (1923-2023). 24-25 November 2023 - University College Dublin
HEGELPD – AUSTRALIAN HEGEL SOCIETY – SOCIEDADE HEGEL BRASILEIRA JOINT CONFERENCE: “CRITIQUES OF R... more HEGELPD – AUSTRALIAN HEGEL SOCIETY – SOCIEDADE HEGEL BRASILEIRA JOINT CONFERENCE: “CRITIQUES OF REASON: HEGEL AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY” (PADOVA AND ONLINE, 29-30 JUNE / 01 JULY 2022)
Book Discussion: Angelica Nuzzo's Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Becket... more Book Discussion: Angelica Nuzzo's Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett. Hegelpd - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76N7zbpkP0
PhD School in Philosophy. Lecture series: Temi e problemi della filosofia classica tedesca: Hegel nella filosofia contemporanea, University of Padova, 2021
International Conference of the Australian Hegel Society Naturalism and Sociality, in collaboration with the Marie Curie project Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy, University of New South Wales, 2019
The International Conference "Between Substance and Subject. The Presence of Spinoza in Hegel" wi... more The International Conference "Between Substance and Subject. The Presence of Spinoza in Hegel" will take place on October 26th-28th, 2023, at the University of Ljubljana (Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television AGRFT, Aškerčeva cesta 5).
The event is organized by Giovanna Luciano (Padua), Martin Hergouth (Ljubljana), Luca Illetterati (Padua), Bojana Jovićević (Ljubljana), Zdravko Kobe (Ljubljana), Goran Vranešević (Ljubljana), together with the Internationales Netzwerk Hegels Relevanz.
Workshop: “Hegel and/or Marx: Problems of Theory, Critique and Practice” will take place at the ... more Workshop: “Hegel and/or Marx: Problems of Theory, Critique and Practice” will take place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on July 4th, 2023 (Room 4.39 – Schönhauser Allee 10-11).
As a collaboration between the research groups on Classical German Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin and at the University of Padova, the event is organised by Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin) and Giovanna Luciano (Unipd).
PROGRAM July 4th, 2023 – h. 10:00
Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin), Introduction
Andreas Arndt (HU Berlin), Materialistische Dialektik? Logik und Realität bei Hegel und Marx
Giovanna Luciano (UNI Padova), Abstraction as Critique in Hegel’s philosophy
Lunch Break
Pablo Pulgar Moya (Uni Diego Portales – Santiago), Vergesellschaftung als darstellungstheoretischer Treffpunkt zwischen Hegel und Marx
Georg Spoo (UNI Freiburg), Destruction and Escalation. Problems of Immanent Critique in Hegel and Marx
Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin), Input for final discussion
The international conference “Hegel’s Hermeneutics” will take place on May 22-23, 2023 at the Uni... more The international conference “Hegel’s Hermeneutics” will take place on May 22-23, 2023 at the University of Padova. The conference, organised by Luca Corti and Giovanna Luciano, will be hosted at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology and Hegelpd.
Joint conference between hegelpd, the Australian Hegel Society, the Sociedade Hegel Brasileira.
... more Joint conference between hegelpd, the Australian Hegel Society, the Sociedade Hegel Brasileira. 29-30 June / 01 July Padova and online Zoom link at: lucianogianna@gmail.com
Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane will publish a special issue devoted to the topic of 'Critique: Hegel and Contemporary Critical Theory'. We welcome contributions that investigate the notion of 'critique' and its historical and systematic development from Hegel's philosophy to the most recent interpretations and re-uses in the framework of contemporary Critical Theory. Rationale of the Issue
This special issue aims to analyze the theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of ‘critique’. The aim is to address questions such as: What justifies a critical claim and its normative value? What is the relationship between theoretical analysis and transformative action? Is critique an individual or a social practice, specifically philosophical or necessarily interdisciplinary?
Critique is a fundamental and widely spread notion within Classical German Philosophy; from the Enlightenment culture, it goes to Kant and Hegel, and further extends to Marx and Critical Theory. Hegel’s philosophy is generally recognized as a benchmark within the philosophical tradition that through Western European Marxism leads to the various generations of the Frankfurt School and to critical theorists in a broader sense. Nevertheless, especially Hegel’s philosophy has been subjected to severe criticism by critical theorists of different generations and from different disciplinary points of view.
In order to answer the questions of this issue, we invite contributors to examine the specific declination that the concept of ‘critique’ has had in Hegel’s philosophy as well as the appropriations, modifications, and rejections that it has received within the contemporary Critical Theory.
The rationale of the issue is the conviction that Hegel’s philosophical tradition is of primary importance today for an analysis of society and knowledge capable of representing an alternative both to strategies of critique ‘from nowhere’, which impose ideal and abstract categories on reality, and to attempts to provide a mere description of the world, which end up passively accepting the existing state of affairs. In fact, the core of the Hegelian account of critique is the idea that knowledge is neither a mere abstract intellectual possession, nor the assimilation of an external given, but rather an ongoing dialectical process that radically changes and produces both subjectivity and objectivity. Through the mediation of Marxist thought, this conception has had profound effects on the Critical Theory of Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse, up to Habermas and the more recent positions of Honneth, Fraser, Jaeggi and Rosa. Examining these effects then allows us not only to reconstruct an important area of contemporary philosophy, but also and especially to understand how philosophy today as a critical activity can contribute to the reflection on the present and to its transformation.
The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics and perspectives that could be addressed by contributions:
Theoretical Issues:
What is a critical theory? How can a theory be an agent of change? What is the subject and the object of critique? Relationship between dialectics and critique Ideal theory vs. non-ideal theory Forms of critique in Hegel’s philosophy Critique of epistemic universalism Practical Issues:
Social, aesthetic, religious, economic criticism Critical education Emancipation, progress, human development Critique of essentialism and human nature Historical Issues:
Rationality and irrationality of the Modern Age Legacy of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary Critical Theory Hegel’s Influence on contemporary Critical Human and Social Sciences (e.g., Critical Pedagogy, Critical Feminists Theory, Critical Race Theory) Hegel and Postcolonial Studies
Confirmed Contributors
Federica Gregoratto (University of St. Gallen)
Gunnar Hindrichs (University of Basel)
Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW Sydney)
Cat Moir (University of Sydney)
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts must be fully anonymized and no longer than 50.000 characters. Papers should be in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. Before sending your contribution, please consider the Guidelines for authors and this sample.
Full papers should be received by 30th September, 2022.
A committee will review all papers. Notifications regarding acceptance will be made via email.
Email a copy of your paper, as an attachment, in Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) to the editors: Giovanna Luciano (lucianogianna@googlemail.com) and Armando Manchisi (armando.manchisi@gmail.com). Please indicate ‘Call Critique Verifiche’ in the subject line and be sure to include the following information:
(1) Titles of the paper
(2) Name of the author(s)
(3) Author’s email address
(4) Short biography (affiliation, research interests, recent publications, etc.)
The Online Journal of Hegelian Studies (Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Hegelianos) will publish a ... more The Online Journal of Hegelian Studies (Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Hegelianos) will publish a special issue devoted to the topic of “The Practical Dimension of G.W.F. Hegel’s Logic”. We welcome contributions that explore the link between logic, political philosophy, practical philosophy and theory of action within Hegel’s philosophy.
The special issue aims to shed light on the practical meaning of Hegel’s logic and to address the issue of the role of logic in relation to the thinking activity on the categories, cultural forms, and social institutions of the present.
Leaving behind the opposition between metaphysical and anti-metaphysical, Aristotelian and post-Kantian interpretations that has predominantly characterised the debate on Hegel’s logic in the last thirty years, this special issue wants to challenge such an opposition and to promote the recent debate that finds in the logical categories the forms of a theory of action.
The following is a list of potential subjects that submissions are invited to address. It is also possible to tackle further related topics.
Hegel’s idea of cognition as alteration (Veränderung)
Relationship between criticism and speculation in Hegel’s logic
Comparison between the structure of thinking and the structure action in Hegel’s philosophy
Teleological models for freedom’s realisation in Hegel’s logic
Hegel’s dialectics of the crisis-moments of transformative processes
Hegel’s idea of immanent critique as self-realisation
Hegel’s idea of self-determining subjectivity from a logical and a practical point of view
Readings emphasising the practical meaning of Hegel’s logic within post-Hegelian philosophy
We accept texts in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, English and German.
For more details, see the “Guidelines for Authors” section of the journal’s website:
Uploads
Publications by Giovanna Luciano
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/critique-and-speculation-reconsidering-hegels-early-dialectical-logic/F99DA90947679B9AF0B08507BB7E82E3
Special Issue "THE PRACTICAL DIMENSION OF G.W.F. HEGEL'S LOGIC",
edited by Giovanna Luciano
https://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/issue/view/37
https://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/article/view/504/392
Talks by Giovanna Luciano
24-25 November 2023 - University College Dublin
Hegelpd - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76N7zbpkP0
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/critique-and-speculation-reconsidering-hegels-early-dialectical-logic/F99DA90947679B9AF0B08507BB7E82E3
Special Issue "THE PRACTICAL DIMENSION OF G.W.F. HEGEL'S LOGIC",
edited by Giovanna Luciano
https://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/issue/view/37
https://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/article/view/504/392
24-25 November 2023 - University College Dublin
Hegelpd - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76N7zbpkP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9swh0ayCo&ab_channel=AccademiaIISF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FWZ5uHUjW0&ab_channel=AccademiaIISF
Peter Pohl (Universität Innsbruck)
Between Discourse, Actor and Institution: Hegel, Humboldt, Stifter and the Emergence of the Bildungspositiv
14:30-15:50
Brian O’Connor (University College Dublin)
Adorno’s Hegelian Turn and the Loss of Materialism
16:00-17:20
Paola Rudan (Università di Bologna)
bell hooks and the Problem with White Suprematist Capitalist Patriarchy
17:30-18:30
Round Table: Bildung-Halbbildung-Unbildung
With Mino Conte, Luca Illetterati, Giovanna Luciano, Giovanna Miolli, Susanna Zellini.
The workshop is organized by Giovanna Luciano (UNIPD), Giovanna Miolli (UNIPD), Susanna Zellini (UNIPD).
The event is organized by Giovanna Luciano (Padua), Martin Hergouth (Ljubljana), Luca Illetterati (Padua), Bojana Jovićević (Ljubljana), Zdravko Kobe (Ljubljana), Goran Vranešević (Ljubljana), together with the Internationales Netzwerk Hegels Relevanz.
https://www.speculativethought.com/between-substance-and-subject-the-presence-of-spinoza-in-hegel
As a collaboration between the research groups on Classical German Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin and at the University of Padova, the event is organised by Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin) and Giovanna Luciano (Unipd).
PROGRAM
July 4th, 2023 – h. 10:00
Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin), Introduction
Andreas Arndt (HU Berlin), Materialistische Dialektik? Logik und Realität bei Hegel und Marx
Giovanna Luciano (UNI Padova), Abstraction as Critique in Hegel’s philosophy
Lunch Break
Pablo Pulgar Moya (Uni Diego Portales – Santiago), Vergesellschaftung als darstellungstheoretischer Treffpunkt zwischen Hegel und Marx
Georg Spoo (UNI Freiburg), Destruction and Escalation. Problems of Immanent Critique in Hegel and Marx
Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin), Input for final discussion
Historical and Natural World in Hegel’s Philosophy
Mercoledì 14 giugno 2023
Orario: 9:30
Sede: Sala delle Edicole (Piazza Capitaniato 3)
Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY)
The Logic of Nature
Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)
Temporality and The Method of Hegel’s Phenomenology
Zoom:
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/85808037459?pwd=dlMzczVockd1UFFnNm9mdnEzczBIdz09
(Passcode: 342696)
29-30 June / 01 July Padova and online
Zoom link at: lucianogianna@gmail.com
Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane will publish a special issue devoted to the topic of 'Critique: Hegel and Contemporary Critical Theory'. We welcome contributions that investigate the notion of 'critique' and its historical and systematic development from Hegel's philosophy to the most recent interpretations and re-uses in the framework of contemporary Critical Theory.
Rationale of the Issue
This special issue aims to analyze the theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of ‘critique’. The aim is to address questions such as: What justifies a critical claim and its normative value? What is the relationship between theoretical analysis and transformative action? Is critique an individual or a social practice, specifically philosophical or necessarily interdisciplinary?
Critique is a fundamental and widely spread notion within Classical German Philosophy; from the Enlightenment culture, it goes to Kant and Hegel, and further extends to Marx and Critical Theory. Hegel’s philosophy is generally recognized as a benchmark within the philosophical tradition that through Western European Marxism leads to the various generations of the Frankfurt School and to critical theorists in a broader sense. Nevertheless, especially Hegel’s philosophy has been subjected to severe criticism by critical theorists of different generations and from different disciplinary points of view.
In order to answer the questions of this issue, we invite contributors to examine the specific declination that the concept of ‘critique’ has had in Hegel’s philosophy as well as the appropriations, modifications, and rejections that it has received within the contemporary Critical Theory.
The rationale of the issue is the conviction that Hegel’s philosophical tradition is of primary importance today for an analysis of society and knowledge capable of representing an alternative both to strategies of critique ‘from nowhere’, which impose ideal and abstract categories on reality, and to attempts to provide a mere description of the world, which end up passively accepting the existing state of affairs. In fact, the core of the Hegelian account of critique is the idea that knowledge is neither a mere abstract intellectual possession, nor the assimilation of an external given, but rather an ongoing dialectical process that radically changes and produces both subjectivity and objectivity. Through the mediation of Marxist thought, this conception has had profound effects on the Critical Theory of Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse, up to Habermas and the more recent positions of Honneth, Fraser, Jaeggi and Rosa. Examining these effects then allows us not only to reconstruct an important area of contemporary philosophy, but also and especially to understand how philosophy today as a critical activity can contribute to the reflection on the present and to its transformation.
The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics and perspectives that could be addressed by contributions:
Theoretical Issues:
What is a critical theory?
How can a theory be an agent of change?
What is the subject and the object of critique?
Relationship between dialectics and critique
Ideal theory vs. non-ideal theory
Forms of critique in Hegel’s philosophy
Critique of epistemic universalism
Practical Issues:
Social, aesthetic, religious, economic criticism
Critical education
Emancipation, progress, human development
Critique of essentialism and human nature
Historical Issues:
Rationality and irrationality of the Modern Age
Legacy of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary Critical Theory
Hegel’s Influence on contemporary Critical Human and Social Sciences (e.g., Critical Pedagogy, Critical Feminists Theory, Critical Race Theory)
Hegel and Postcolonial Studies
Confirmed Contributors
Federica Gregoratto (University of St. Gallen)
Gunnar Hindrichs (University of Basel)
Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW Sydney)
Cat Moir (University of Sydney)
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts must be fully anonymized and no longer than 50.000 characters. Papers should be in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. Before sending your contribution, please consider the Guidelines for authors and this sample.
Full papers should be received by 30th September, 2022.
A committee will review all papers. Notifications regarding acceptance will be made via email.
Email a copy of your paper, as an attachment, in Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) to the editors: Giovanna Luciano (lucianogianna@googlemail.com) and Armando Manchisi (armando.manchisi@gmail.com). Please indicate ‘Call Critique Verifiche’ in the subject line and be sure to include the following information:
(1) Titles of the paper
(2) Name of the author(s)
(3) Author’s email address
(4) Short biography (affiliation, research interests, recent publications, etc.)
Confirmed contributors: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY); Paul Redding (SydUNI); Luca Illetterati (UNIPD)
The special issue aims to shed light on the practical meaning of Hegel’s logic and to address the issue of the role of logic in relation to the thinking activity on the categories, cultural forms, and social institutions of the present.
Leaving behind the opposition between metaphysical and anti-metaphysical, Aristotelian and post-Kantian interpretations that has predominantly characterised the debate on Hegel’s logic in the last thirty years, this special issue wants to challenge such an opposition and to promote the recent debate that finds in the logical categories the forms of a theory of action.
The following is a list of potential subjects that submissions are invited to address. It is also possible to tackle further related topics.
Hegel’s idea of cognition as alteration (Veränderung)
Relationship between criticism and speculation in Hegel’s logic
Comparison between the structure of thinking and the structure action in Hegel’s philosophy
Teleological models for freedom’s realisation in Hegel’s logic
Hegel’s dialectics of the crisis-moments of transformative processes
Hegel’s idea of immanent critique as self-realisation
Hegel’s idea of self-determining subjectivity from a logical and a practical point of view
Readings emphasising the practical meaning of Hegel’s logic within post-Hegelian philosophy
We accept texts in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, English and German.
For more details, see the “Guidelines for Authors” section of the journal’s website:
http://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
NEW DEADLINE for submission: August 21, 2022.
All papers will be double-blind refereed.
The issue will be published at the end of 2022.
For more information, please contact:
Giovanna Luciano: lucianogianna@gmail.com
http://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/announcement/view/21
http://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/announcement/view/26