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European Humanities University, Vilnius
Network Project: “Historicity, Subjectivity, Communality”– University of Helsinki
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius

Call for Papers
PhD Conference in Philosophy
Sharing Experience: Norms, Values, and Interactions
October 13–14, 2014
Vilnius

One of the pathbreaking trends in 20th-century philosophy was the profound criticism of the classical concept of monological consciousness. As a result of this critical work, a number of newly elaborated theoretical approaches and concepts were conceived and have shown different dimensions of both individual and social life as irreducible to one constitutive consciousness (or any other monological instance). The linguistic turn and development of the theory of the Unconscious, the concept of the Other, and the pluralistic vision of society—these and many other crucial steps in contemporary thought have contributed to a substantially new research focus connected with the very phenomenon of sharing a certain experience. Regarding this emerging research focus, the decisive principal is to assume that a sharing per se might be proved to be a primary (or, at least, an equal original) phenomenon in relation to any activity ascribed to a subject (an individual).

The aim of the conference is to analyse, from various theoretical perspectives, the phenomenon of sharing as it occurs in different practical contexts. We suggest concentrating our discussions on the following three aspects of the phenomenon of sharing: a normative, an axiological, and an interactive aspect.

Questions to be discussed (but not limited to):

• Ontological status of sharing
• Temporal modes of sharing an experience
• Spaces and places of sharing
• Shared production of meaning
• Shared aesthesis
• Communication and/as sharing
• Embodied community: sharing the self, selfhood, and the other
• Otherness of normativity: passivity, shame, self-ness and self-awareness
• Morality’s legitimacy of ‘we’: communality and communication

Working language: English

Organizing Committee:
Antanas Andrijauskas, Sara Heinämaa, Gintautas Mazeikis, Tatiana Shchyttsova (Chair)

The maximum length of each presentation is 20 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of interaction. Please submit your proposal in the form of a suggested title and an abstract of 200–300 words. Proposals should be sent to irina.poleshchuk @ helsinki.fi: Please enter “PhD conference” in the subject field.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 1, 2014.