Stanford University professor and ELTE honorary doctor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht delivers a lecture entitled "Why Diderot is the Enlightenment Needed by the 21st Century (Steps Towards the Outline of a New Book)" on December 19, 2012 on the Faculty of Humanities
Diderot resisted the general tendency of Modern Times where human relations to material world became more and more spiritual and abstract. In his fictitious story, the legendary (but not widely-read) D'Alambert's Dream, he dissolves the boundary between an abstract and a solely sensual, material and erotic description of the world. This special new materialistic and erotic approach to world's matters in Diderot's life and works seems to be the most challenging for us at the beginning of the 21st century.
The keeping of lecture was made possible by the projects "Culture-establishing media, practices and techniques" (TKI01241) and "Happening, medium, publicity" (NK81636) of the Research Team of General Literary Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and ELTE; as well as by the student self-government of the Faculty of Humanities.
Date and location of the presentation: December 18, 2012 (Wednesday), 2 p.m. at Múzeum krt. 4/A, Horváth János Hall (329.)
More infor at the website of Department for Comparative Literary and Cultural Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities.