Frá Antígónu til Irigaray og Ettinger: hugleiðingar á femínískum og móðurlegum nótum

Lenart Škof, prófessor í heimspeki og forstöðumaður Science and Research Centre Koper, heldur fyrirlestur á vegum Heimspekistofnunar Háskóla Íslands, Guðfræðistofnun HÍ og námsgreinar í kynjafræði. Fyrirlesturinn nefnist „From Antigone to Irigaray and Ettinger: feminist and matrixial reflections“ og verður fluttur í stofu 104 í Veröld - húsi Vigdísar fimmtudaginn 3. nóvember kl. 15-16. 

Útdráttur

In this lecturev we will explore the power of love in our world. Based on Sophocles’s Antigone, we will offer an investigation into various goddesses and feminine figures from a variety of philosophical, mythological, theological, and literary contexts. Throughout the lecture, we will elaborate on the various forgotten or supressed feminine aspects (such as Metis, Bethletemite Concubine, Mary) as well as selected concepts from various philosophical texts, such as the Matrix in Jakob Böhme, Clara in Schelling, beyng in Heidegger, chóra in Derrida, and breath in Luce Irigaray’s thought. Finally, drawing on Bracha M. Ettinger’s concept of matrixiality, we will present an outline of a new matrixial theory of love. Despite its many usages and appropriations, love remains a neglected topic within Western philosophy. With our reading of Antigone, her “genealogical sisters” and related readings of Irigaray and Ettinger, we will thus identify and elaborate on some of the reasons for this forgetting of love, and to show that it is only love that can bring peace to our ethically disrupted world.

Um fyrirlesarann

Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Professor and Dean of Faculty of Humanities at Alma Mater Europaea and Visiting Professor of Religion at Nan Tien Institute (Australia) and Bennett University (India). Received KAAD grant (Universität Tübingen), Fulbright grant (Stanford University) and Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers (Max Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt). Regular member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg). Among his monographs are Antigone's Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021), Breath of Proximity (Springer, 2015), and Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life (Lexington Books, 2012). (Co)editor of numerous books and journal special issues, most recently Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice (Lexington Books, 2021), Atmospheres of Breathing (SUNY Press, 2018) and Borders and Debordering (Lexington Books, 2018). President of Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion. Main research interests: ethics, new cosmology, philosophical theology, intercultural philosophy, the philosophy of Luce Irigaray. His current research projects are dedicated to elemental philosophy, philosophical theology, and ethics of vulnerability.