The Culture of Grief - Philosophy 2020 Live Online

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The Culture of Grief - Philosophy 2020 Live Online

The research centre The Culture of Grief has invited Judith Butler, Martin Hägglund, Jonathan Lear, Arne Johan Vetlesen and Simon Critchley for a one-day online seminar on the philosophy, ecology and politics of loss in the twenty-first century. We live in a time of multiple crises and extreme loss. Due to the financial crisis in 2007-8, people all over the world have lost their jobs, their homes, their livelihood, whereas people, especially in the Global South, are experiencing and expressing profound losses of nature and of a whole way of life because of global warming, melting ice or, conversely, excessive fires and endless draught. At the moment, a global pandemic haunts every corner of the world, and has made us acutely aware of the fragility that defines life on planet earth. But how are these losses to be understood? What forms of grief are at work and at stake? How do they differ, if at all, from the ‘universal’ and ‘transhistorical’ human experience of bereavement, of mourning the loss a loved one? If the branch of philosophy is historical – bound to the problems, dilemmas and aporias of a given time – it would appear to be a philosophical necessity to come to terms with such questions, and to be up to the timely task of conceptualizing and analysing grief and loss in the contemporary age.