Schelling, Hegel, Fichte (from left) and other philosophers are put to the test. Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Schelling, Hegel, Fichte ( from left ) and other philosophers are put to the test. Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena) - The anti-racist protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as the reactions to the racist and anti-Semitic attacks in Halle and Hanau, have also sparked discussion within German-language philosophy. Academics have initiated discussion series on the role of their own discipline in the history of European violence, and conducted debates in daily newspapers, asking: Was Kant a racist? Is Hegel's thinking anti-Semitic? Were the German idealists consistently sexist? Whether these questions are actually suitable for creating awareness of the problematic legacy that continues to affect society and politics today is doubtful, in the opinion of Prof. Andrea Esser, head of the Department of Practical Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. She received the positive decision on funding within the framework of the Koselleck Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG), for a project that aims to encourage philosophy to deal with its problematic legacy both in terms of the historiography of philosophy and from the perspective of its effect on and in the present. The DFG is funding the project "How to Deal with Racism, Sexism and Anti-Semitism in Works of Classical German Philosophy. A Critical and Self-critical History of Philosophy as a 'Public Philosophy' Project" for a period of five years. The project starts this August, with funding of one million euros.
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