Provincializing Human History? (Olivier Remaud)
12 janvier | 16h00
World Philologies Seminar - With Olivier Remaud (EHESS Paris)
The cosmopolitan questions that arise from climate change and globalization are opportunities to reconsider the task of the world philologist in a broad sense including conflicting views of the "universal" across time and space. A close reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s paper "The Climate of History" (Critical Inquiry, 35-2, 2009) will be the starting point of Olivier Remaud's talk. Chakrabarty reminds us of the provenance of the category "History" and claims that the impact on climate invalidates the common distinction between "human history" and "natural history". Not only does he
suggest that conceptions of history without the participation of nature do not make any understanding of the present-day world possible. He challenges also indirectly the Weltliteratur statement that the "province" of the philologist is the "world of human history" (Erich Auerbach).
Olivier Remaud is Associate Professor of cultural and social philosophy at the EHESS in Paris and the director of the Centre d'études sociologiques et
politiques Raymond-Aron. His publications include: Solitude volontaire (Albin Michel, 2017); Un monde étrange. Pour une autre approche du cosmopolitisme (PUF, 2015); Les Archives de l'humanité. Essai sur la philosophie de Vico (Seuil, 2004). He is a research awardee of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation.
Organisation:
Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Organisateur
FU Berlin / Forum Transregionale Studien / Centre Marc Bloch
Contact
Markus Messling
messling ( at ) cmb.hu-berlin.de
