Date and venue: July 9-11 2024, Liverpool Hope University, UK
What might a contemporary philosophy of – or from – nature look like? What can we learn from the most fertile period of ‘naturephilosophy’: the Romantic and early idealist years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century? How have the after-effects of this period resonated and mutated through the intervening years? What fresh possibilities arise from thinking with/against its key insights?
We invite contributions which seek creatively and imaginatively to rethink philosophy’s relationship to nature, taking Romanticism and naturephilosophy as their stimulant (but not necessarily as their sole focus or goal).
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Re-reading Romantic/naturephilosophical texts in the light of contemporary ecological concerns
• Bringing Romanticism/idealism into dialogue with contemporary speculative philosophy around questions of nature, ecology and the other-than-human.
• Re-evaluating the afterlife of Romantic and idealist thought about nature, for example in the existential and phenomenological traditions of the twentieth century.
• Reassessing the metaphysical and religious stakes of Romantic/naturephilosophical thought.
Submissions
Please send 200-300-word proposals for 20 minute papers to Steven Shakespeare at shakess@hope.ac.uk .
Proposals for panels are welcome: please provide a short overall rationale for the panel in addition to individual paper proposals.
The deadline for submissions is Monday February 5th 2024.