Fotos: archiv of the Institute of Humanistic Studies, Federic Santa María University, Valparaíso, Chile. 

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

Europe in dialogue with its own diversity -

an important focus of the EIFI:

To learn more about this line of work, some reading recommendations:

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

Foto: archive of the Department of Humanistic Studies, University "Federico Santa María", Valparaíso, Chile.

>> 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

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