1st Seminar: February, 28 and March, 1
EDUCATION, ESSENTIAL VALUES AND VIRTUES
Seminar with Ángel Viñas Vera
(Loyola University Andalusia)
A few weeks ago, the third edition of the Network of Young Researchers promoted by EIFI was concluded. After Barcelona and Vienna, the enchanting city of Prague was the host city.
The idea of these meetings originated from the desire of Raul Fornet-Betancourt and Bianca Boteva-Richter to create a space for discussion and support for young researchers whose situatedness, of body and thought, belongs to the Central and Eastern European area, or who are involved in dialogue with and between the different souls of Europe. The common thread that connects the different research is the use of an intercultural approach and methodology, which promotes the development of critical trajectories of thought of the reductionisms of the Western philosophical tradition, and at the same time open and inclusive of the multiplicity of the world's philosophies, analysing their places of tension and intersection.
In Prague, the group was the guest of the Department of Political Philosophy and Global Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with which a fruitful and interesting collaboration was born. Key elements of the meeting were the variety and philosophical depth of the contributions and the dynamic and participative dialogue both following each presentation and in the moments of break in the spirit of conviviality.
Over the course of the two days, key concepts of intercultural philosophy were addressed, both from the point of view of ethical-political reflection, including resilience, moral exemplarity, ethos of responsibility and solidarity, and from the theoretical point of view, in particular the concept of existence and historicity, as well as that of time and temporality, and multiperspectivism. Furthermore, these conceptual cores were investigated from different branches of philosophy, from the aesthetics of music to the philosophy of education, and from the history of philosophy to political philosophy, bringing authors from the Western tradition into dialogue with other philosophical geographies, in particular the Caribbean, Chinese and Central European philosophies. A source of great honour and inspiration was the presence of Prof. Gunjun Wu, who proposed an interesting and acute analysis of the global climate crisis starting from a rethinking of classical Chinese philosophy from the perspective of interculturality.
Reporting by Sofia Elena Merli
Fotos: Dusan Milenkovic
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Hrsg./Ed.),
Europa im Dialog mit seiner Diversität. Europa en diálogo con su diversidad. Europe in dialogue with its own diversity, Concordia. Reihe Monographien. Bd.74, Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2020
In addition, two themed issues on contemporary philosophy have been published in the Concordia series:
vol. 73: Contemporary Philosophy from Eastern Europe
vol. 74: Contemporary Philosophy from Poland
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Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Hrsg./Ed.),
Kulturen, Welt, Zivilisation: zwischen Kolonisierung und Befreiung.
Cultures, World, Civilization: between colonization and liberation.
Culturas, Mundo, Civilización; entre la colonización y la liberación.
Cultures, Monde, Civilisation: entre colonisation et libération.
(Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität. Bd. 50),
Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2024
ISBN: 978-3-95886-536-5
The XVth International Congress of Intercultural Philosophy was held in Santiago de Chile from April 25 to 27, 2024.
This volume publishes the main lectures and contributions of the closing panel of this congress, which was dedicated to the overall theme: “Cultures, world, civilization: between colonization and liberation”.
>> for the Contents, click here .
Foto: archive of the Department of Humanistic Studies, University "Federico Santa María", Valparaíso, Chile.
Alfredo Gomez-Muller
Les Droits de la Terre-Mère.
Nature, Pachamama et buen vivir.
(Poche/ Petite bibliothèque d’écologie populaire)
Éditions Wildproject, Marseille 2024
ISBN: 978-2-381140-780
>> a short presentation of the book (in French)
It is in South America that the rights of nature are better established. In 2008, Ecuador implemented, inter alia, the first Ecological Constitution.
By shedding light on the philosophical and cultural implications of Ecuadorian Constitution, this book offers a radical overview of the issue of the rights of nature.
Finally, a small reference manual on the rights of nature.
[Extract from the short presentation of the book by the publisher]
For the next three years, from September 2024 to September 2027, the headquarters of the South American Association for Intercultural Philosophy and Theology (ASAFTI) will be in Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil. The board of directors is composed of Ana Brum, André Brainer de Faria, Andre Pares, Giselle Moura Schnorr, Magali Mendes de Menezes and Neusa Vaz e Silva.
During the last three years, its headquarters and coordination was located in Bogotá/Colombia, under the coordination of Professors Juan Cepeda, Israel Arturo Orego, Echeverría and Franklin Púa, whom we thank for their valuable work.
We wish the new board much success in coordinating the paths taken by the members of ASAFTI, as well as in creating new ways of walking together along the many and diverse paths of Our America.
For more information on the organisation of ASAFTI, please consult the ASAFTI website soon.
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Hrsg./Ed.)
Neue Formen von Unterdrückung und Befreiung heute. New ways of oppression and liberation today. Nuevas formas de opresión y liberación hoy. Les nouvelles formes d’oppression et de libération aujourd’hui.
(Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität. Bd. 49)
Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2024
ISBN: 978-3-95886-529-7
The 20th International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme was held from 2 to 4 November 2023 in Barcelona and had as its central theme the question of new forms of oppression and liberation today.
This volume documents the papers presented in this seminar, publishing
them in the original language and according to the order of presentation
in the programme. The volume also includes the presentations on the final
podium where a first assessment of the seminar was attempted.
>> for the Contents please see here.
>> More on this in the conference report, published in the issue 85 of Concordia. International Review of Philosophy.
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 86 (2024)
with articles from
Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann
Johannes Vorlaufer
Jean-François Petit
Anne Béatrice Faye
Juan Antonio Senent de Frutos
Beat Dietschy
>> Inhalt/Índice/Sommaire/Contents
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 85 (2024)
with articles from
Tim Glogner
Gabriele Münnix
Josu Landa
Jean-François Petit
Ricardo Salas Astrain
Fidel Tubino
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INTERCULTURAL PUBLICATION
Dr. Claudio Valencia Estrada, Editorial Director of the Guillermo de Ockham Journal of the UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA in Colombia, has been so kind to share with the readers of the EIFI community a review of volume 22-I of this journal.
In his writing he highlights the concept of interculturality proposed by the guest editor, Dr. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, and values the different contributions in the thirteen articles that make up this collective issue dedicated to the theme: "The contemporary world as a challenge for an intercultural philosophy or thinking".
Thanks to Dr. Valencia for this review, and also for providing the cover images and table of contents.
José Manuel Fajardo Salinas
Today's world as a challenge for intercultural philosophy and intercultural thinking
>> to read the review in English translation: please click here
Many thanks to the author of this review:
Dr. Claudio Valencia Estrada,
Editorial Director of the Journal Guillermo de Ockham, UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA, Colombia
Revista Guillermo de Ockham. Vol. 22-1
Del índice/ From the Contents
Editorial
Raúl Fornet Betancourt
Artículos de investigación/ Research articles
Edward Demenchonok
Reina Saldaña Duque
Israel Arturo Orrego-Echeverría /
Manuel Leonardo Prada Rodríguez
Artículo de revisión / Revue article
Hans Oviedo-Gómez
Artículos de reflexión / Reflection articles
Alcira Beatriz Bonilla
Bianca Boteva-Richter
Magali Mendes de Menezes
José Manuel Fajardo Salinas
Pablo Guadarrama
Josef Estermann
Ricardo Salas Astrain
Myriam Alba Zapata-Jiménez
Lorena Zuchel / Lorena González
>> to the Contents, please click here
It is worth noting that
the review is open access available on:
Cultures, world, civilization: between colonization and liberation - this was the theme of the XV International Congress of Intercultural Philosophy, which took place from 25-27 April 2024 in Santiago de Chile and was organized by the EIFI (Aachen/Barcelona) together with the Federico Santa María Technical University, Santiago de Chile, the State University of Santiago de Chile, the Catholic University of Temuco, and the Catholic University of the North.
Numerous philosophers from different countries came to Santiago de Chile to explore ways in which the current civilizational order, which threatens to destroy and replace the many places in the world of humanity, can be reversed and steered towards a solidary coexistence of humanity. The joint work was rounded off with a panel for retrospective critical evaluation.
Lorena Zuchel, who was responsible for the organizational team in Chile, provides an insight into this intercontinental exchange of experiences in her report, which will be published in the upcoming number 86 of Concordia. International Journal of Philosophy. Like all events in this series, this congress will also be documented in a conference volume, which will contain all presentations in full. The book will be available soon.
Fotos: archiv of the Institute of Humanistic Studies, Federic Santa María University, Valparaíso, Chile.
In early February, a series of seminars on human values began in Barcelona at the International School of Intercultural Philosophy (EIFI). These take place at a special institution: the Casa d’Espiritualitat Sant Felip Neri. Central to the first seminar were the decolonisation of thought and the theology of migration.
Photo: Rolando Vázquez Melken, Jorge Castillo Guerra, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
Migration is of all times. Once upon a time, the first humanoids roamed from Africa across the European continent and the first human species - Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens - mixed with each other. As Euro-Asians, their descendants continued their way through the Bering Strait to the Americas, and so on.
Much later, other migrants went in search of other cultures. Marco Polo's parents and Marco Polo himself travelled through Mongolia to China and returned home in amazement. Somewhat later, Columbus undertook his journey across a still unknown sea and equally returned with many stories. However, his journey did not lead to an encounter with the Other but to an imperialist invasion of a hitherto unknown continent.
Thus, the year 1492 marks the beginning of the global exploitation of overseas territories and the subjugation of peoples. It led to a division between the West and the rest with all its inhumane consequences. Consequences of which we see the effects now more than ever: people with no livelihood opportunities seek their way to where a life can be built.
>> to read more: click here
>> for more information please see the homepage of the Congress: https://ica2025.uns.ac.rs/
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
De le soledad.
Para una filosofía del buen trato
con la soledad
(Filosofía Hoy, vol. 101)
Editorial Comares, Granada 2023
ISBN: 978-84-1369-599-0
From the author's foreword
Whoever wants to know, if he wants to attain authentic knowledge, must be willing to go on the way with what he wants to know, learn to esteem it, found community with it, and be reborn into the world from the history of the commonly trodden path.
This is the kind of knowledge of solitude to which this book aims to contribute. The two chapters that comprise it respond to this intention.
In the first, so to speak, we meet thinkers who in the history of philosophy have travelled the path of solitude.
With the support of this exercise of historical memory on dealing with solitude, the second chapter analyses some fields of encounter and dealing with solitude as testing grounds for learning a good way of dealing with solitude, which is what the kind of knowledge of and with solitude that our reflections in this book aim at should lead to.
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 84 (2023)
Philosophie in Kuba
Philosophy in Cuba
Filosofía en Cuba
Philosophie à Cuba
Pablo Guadarrama
Gastherausgeber / Guest editor
Editor invitado / Editeur invité
>> Inhalt_Índice_Sommaire_Contents
Mirijam Salfinger,
Für eine Kultur des Friedens.
Aktualität und Aktualisierung
der Befreiungstheologie
Ignacio Ellacurías in El Salvador
(Concordia. Reihe Monographien. Bd. 76)
Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2023
>> for mor information, click here.
ISBN : 978-3-95886-489-4
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 83 (2023)
with articles from :
Franz Hinkelammert
František Novosád
Maria Elisa Bonaudi
Josef Estermann
Béatrice Faye
>> Inhalt_Índice_Sommaire_Contents
ISBN: 978-84-293-3183-7
EAN: 9788429331837
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.),
Vernünftige Hoffnung - hoffende Vernunft.
Quellen der Hoffnung in schwierigen Zeiten.
Reasonable Hope - hopeful Reason
Sources of Hope in difficult Times
Esperanza razonable - razón esperanzada
Fuentes de esperanza en tiempos difíciles
Espoir raisonnable - raison qui espère
Sources d'espoir en temps difficiles
>> Contents
This book has been published as volume 48 in the series Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität", in the editorial Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen.
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Madonna González Yera / Marilys Marrero Fernández
Yaima Martínez Alemán / María Luz Mejías Herrera
ESTUDIOS SOBRE FILOSOFÍA EN CUBA,
Aachen/Barcelona: Edición digital EIFI, 2023.
It is the work of six Cuban women philosophers, professors in the Philosophy Department of the Universidad Central de las Villas.
In the works compiled in this book, the authors deal with central themes of the philosophical discussion in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution, such as the meaning of philosophical historiography in Cuba, the ideological use of national history or the question of the relationship between philosophy or artistic creation and political commitment.
This publication as well as the other volumes of the "EIFI Digital Edition" is available in the virtual library (www.eifi.one > virtual library).
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Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
Mundo – Filosofía Intercultural – Existencia,
Aachen/Barcelona: Edición digital EIFI, 2023.
The works collected in this volume, as the title indicates, want to invite us to think that philosophy, especially as intercultural philosophy, has to conduct its intercultural dialogue with the world as a dialogue which is at the same time an engagement with the existential questions which burden human beings in their life worlds.
>> Contents and Foreword (span.)
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From 2 to 4 November, the 20th International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme took place in Barcelona. Its topic: "New forms of oppression and liberation today".
Numerous participants came to dialogue with speakers from different regions of the world - from Africa, America, Asia and Europe - on the state of humanity in today's world. The description of new forms of oppression and liberation was the starting point for an in-depth examination of the metamorphosis of these forms at the crossroads between oppression and liberation, and for asking the necessary question of where the strength can come from so that people can recognise the ethical urgency of following the path of liberation and also want to follow this path.
>> More on this in the conference report, which will be published in the issue 85 of Concordia. International Review of Philosophy, that is upcoming.
>> an advance notice: The acts of this 20th International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme will be published soon. They will include all the papers in full text.
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>> For the access code, please contact: eifi.secretaria@gmail.com .