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 „The body: our physical, fragile, inevitably mutable presence, inexorably slipping away, is also a sign, a symbol, a reaching out for a mystery that evades words and concepts, a mystery hidden in a loved one’s smile, in the terror-inflected hope that confronts the inevitably approaching end of everything I see, feel, and think. Death and love reveal the fundamental discontinuity of our bodily presence in the world. In every moment of our lives all meaning may become suspended. In this interval, briefer than any moment one can measure, in this crack, this fissure, this tear — in the blink of an eye — everything is left in question, and a chance for a new beginning arises. This is ‚eternity‘.“
The subject of Krzysztof Michalski’s most recent book, which has just come out in English, is eternity. The point of departure is Nietzsche. Both original and at the same time deeply rooted in tradition, Nietzsche’s concept of eternity remains as thought-provoking for us as it had been among his contemporaries. >>More… |
 Die Krise rund um den Euro hat zu einer tiefen Kluft geführt. Deutschland und Frankreich geben die Richtung vor, die anderen Staaten fühlen sich an den Rand gedrückt. Nicht alle Mitglieder sehen ein, warum sie für finanzielle Probleme anderer Staaten zahlen sollen. Ist die Einheit Europas in Gefahr? Über diese Frage diskutierten die slowakische Ministerpräsidentin Iveta Radicová, der EU-Fraktionschef der Grünen, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, der ehemalige Finanzminister Deutschlands Peer Steinbrück sowie der ehemaligen Außenminister Griechenlands Dimitris Droutsas unter der Leitung von „Der Standard“-Chefredakteurin Alexandra Föderl-Schmid am 22. Januar im Wiener Burgtheater. [Aufzeichnung in der ORF TVthek]
Die gemeinsam von ERSTE Stiftung, Der STANDARD und IWM ausgerichtete Diskussionsreihe „Europa im Diskurs“ wird am 26. Februar mit der Veranstaltung „Geld und Moral: Ist Europas Wertesystem in Gefahr?“ fortgesetzt. |
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Call for Applications for the Alexander Herzen Fellowships 2012-2013 announced |
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 The Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna/Austria, jointly announce a Call for Applications for the Alexander Herzen Fellowships 2012-2013. The Alexander Herzen Junior Visiting Fellowships are designed as an award for excellence for the most promising young researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Siberian, Ural and Far-Eastern federal districts, and the Voronezh, Lipetsk, Belgorod, Ryazan and Kaluga regions. >> More... |
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Timothy Snyder erhält Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung |
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 Timothy Snyder, Permanent Fellow des IWM, erhält den Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung 2012. Die Auszeichnung wird zu gleichen Teilen an Snyder und den britischen Historiker Ian Kershaw verliehen, so das Urteil der international besetzten Jury. >> Mehr... |
 recent crisis has shown that contrary to what the classic notion of the “ever closer Union among the peoples of Europe” suggests, the process of Europe’s integration is not irreversible. The spectre of disintegration is haunting the European Union. It is in light of the eminent challenges facing the integration project that senior policy makers and renowned public intellectuals such as Robert Cooper, Pierre Hassner and Stephen Kotkin gather at the IWM for the international seminar „Dynamics of DisIntegration” on January 12-13. Together, they aim to arrive at a more thorough, historically grounded understanding of the current situation and to reflect on strategies to cope with or even halt the fracturing dynamics that have engulfed the EU: What if anything should Europeans be afraid of? What are the tipping points in processes of disintegration? Were there policy roads not taken that might be deployed for the current debate? This event is the first in a seminar series jointly organized by the IWM and the Open Society Institute in New York. The results of this invitation-only seminar series will be published in due course.
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