On January 28 2026, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bedorf (FernUniversität Hagen) will join us to give a guest lecture! Stay tuned for more information!
You can find the abstract of his lecture below;
Seeing and Being Seen: A Political Phenomenology of Posture
Abstract: Political phenomenology, like all phenomenological philosophy, starts from experiences: from encounters which affect us. Experiences are made in situations that define the horizons of possibilities of meaningful world relations. The situatedness of the respective experiential spaces also reveals the limits of possibilities, i.e., socially and culturally produced exclusions and discriminations. With regard to these situatednesses, then, we can take a stance politically. The positions that can be taken in this way relate reflexively to situatednesses, but do not simply follow from the situations. There remains a “situative difference” for which we must take political responsibility. The presentation introduces and this approach to political phenomenology and invites discussing it.
Kapuzinerkloster, Room KAP-018