ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE FILOSOFÍA INTERCULTURAL

INTERNATIONALE SCHULE FÜR INTERKULTURELLE PHILOSOPHIE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY

ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE INTERCULTURELLE

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.

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.),

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 .

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]

Changes at ASAFTI (= Associação Sul Americana de Filosofia e Teologia Interculturais/ Asociación SudAmericana de Filosofia e Teología Interculturales)

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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.

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.

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

>> to read more (span.)

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.

ESTUDIOS SOBRE FILOSOFÍA EN CUBA -

(STUDIES ON PHILOSOPHY IN CUBA)

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Anayansi Castellon Jiménez / Yeniselis González Mederos

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).

NEW PUBLICATION OF RAÚL FORNET-BETANCOURT

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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.)

This publication as well as the other volumes of the "EIFI Digital Edition" is available in the virtual library (www.eifi.one > virtual library).