Dr. Emiliano Acosta

Rethinking Europe is organized by the Centre for Critical Philosophy in cooperation with the Centre de Philosophie du Droit (UCL). The workshop aims to serve as a place for reflection, discussion and innovation towards theories of Government, the limits and the potential of Democracy, Public Sphere, the tensions between Civil and Civic and between Society and State.

The aim of this three-day international workshop is to present and exchange various critical viewpoints on objectivity and subjectivity, and to more specifically focus on the various interpretations of necessity in its relation to contingency. This approach on the matter can find inspiration in Kant’s third Critique, but this source of inspiration should certainly not be considered as the only possible one. Husserl’s gesture to extrapolate the co-constitutive relation between objectivity and subjectivity to history is but one example of objectivity seen from a dynamical, contingently, historically and subjectively grounded background, the life-world. The meeting is open to explore other backgrounds.