| Dozent/in | Dr. Jonathan Keir |
| Veranstaltungsart | Blockseminar, Masterveranstaltung |
| SWS | 2 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Wochentag/Uhrzeit | Freitag, 21.06.19: 10:00-17:30 Uhr c.t. Samstag, 22.06.19: 10:00-17:30 Uhr c.t. Sonntag, 23.06.19: 10:00-17:30 Uhr c.t. |
| Ort | Weltethos-Institut, Hintere Grabenstraße 26, 72070 Tübingen |
| Voraussetzungen/ Zielgruppe | Masterstudents, Bachelorstudents from 5th. semester or above |
| Leistungsnachweis /Prüfungsform ECTS-Credits | Attendance + short class presentation + essay 3-6 ECTS |
| Anmeldung | Per E-Mail – mit Angabe von Name, Matrikelnummer, Studienfach und Semesterzahl, Adresse, Geburtsort und -datum bei lehre@weltethos-institut.org
Specific enquiries regarding course content can be directed to jonathankeir@163.com. |
| Anmeldefrist | 25. April 2019 |
| Max. Teilnehmerzahl | 20 |
| Literaturangaben
Tu Weiming, ‘Spiritual Humanism: Self, Community, Earth, and Heaven’, XXIV World Congress of Philosophy Wang Yangming Lecture, Beijing, 18 August 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTiPiMaroY0).
The full text of of Learning for the Global Self: Spiritual Humanism as a World Ethos will be sent to enrolled participants in advance of the course.
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| Beschreibung
This course takes the ’spiritual humanism‘ of contemporary Confucian philosopher Tu Weiming as the starting point for an exploration of 20th- and 21st-century World Literature. Authors to be covered include: Natalia Ginzburg, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Elias Khoury, Zinaida Gippius, Mario Vargas Llosa, Yang Jiang and around a dozen others. The common thread linking these authors is a willingness to take the dimension of the human spirit seriously without recourse to mysticism or fundamentalist rhetoric. The question whether such a humanism could form the basis for an emerging ‚world ethos‘ or global republic of letters – a kind of ‚liberalism plus‘ for a rapidly globalising world – will remain in the background of our class discussions of these individual authors. | |
