Affectivity and Its Vicissitudes in Humanities and Social Thought

Conference to celebrate the release of volume concluding the V4 project 17th March 2012 (Saturday) Lengyel Intézet (Polish Institute), 1065 Budapest, Nagymező u. 15. 8:50 Opening Session I: Chair: Urszula Idziak

9:00 – 9:20 Gabor Boros (ELTE, Budapest), Hume’s Theory of Passion

9:20 – 9:40 Wojciech Starzyński (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa), Le cogito cartésienselon Michel Henry

9:40- 10:00 Robert Karul (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava), Le pathos chez Plotin 10:00-10:20 Katalin Kovács (University of Szeged), Esthétique du sentiment et langage affectif: quelques aspects de la réflexion esthétique de Du Bos

10:20-10:40 Karel Novotny (Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha), Körperlichkeit und Affektivität. Die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit der Leiblichkeit 10:40-11:00 Discussion

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

Session II: Chair: TBA

11:20-11:40 Bela Mester (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Affectivity, Hypochondria, and Piles. Biological Reasoning and Metaphors of Illness in the Hungarian History of Ideas

11:40-12:00 Gábor Kovács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Rationality and Affectivity in Politics ? the Role of Fear and Hysteria in the Political Thought of István Bibó

12:00-12:20 Bojan Žalec (University of Ljubljana), The political dimensions of threat and fear 12:20-12:40 Vojko Strahovnik (University of Primorska), Shame as a Moral Emotion and its Role in Reconciliation

12:40-13:00 Discussion

13:00-15:00 Lunch

Session III: Chair: Béla Mester

15:00-15:20 Petr Kouba, (Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha), Critique of ressentiment in Reich, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari

15:20-15:40 Rafał Smoczyński (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa), The agency of affectivity in the ritual abuse moral panic

15:40-16:00 Urszula Idziak (JagellonianUniversity, Kraków), Ludwig Wittgenstein and ?metaphysics as a kind of magic

16:00-16:20 Jagna Brudzińska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa), Affekt und Phantasieim Aufbaupersonaler Realitaten. ZurWirkungsphanomenologie der Lebenswelt

16:20-16:40 Discussion

16:40 Closing Conference supported by the Visegrad Fund