DISPUTATIO 5: THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY LIES IN THE POWER OF IMAGINATION
Claimer:
Kristupas Sabolius is an associate professor of philosophy at Vilnius University (Lithuania) and a Fulbright Scholar alumnus at SUNY (Stony Brook). He is the author of Proteus and the Radical Imaginary (2015, Bunkier Sztuki, in Polish and English) The Imaginary (2013, Vilnius University Press, in Lithuanian), and Furious Sleep. Imagination and Phenomenology (2012, Vilnius University Press, in Lithuanian) as well as numerous essays, signalizing the contradictory function of imagination, appearing in all the major theories of Western thought. Together with Tomas Ramanauskas, Sabolius published The Man Who Knew It All (2014), a collection of 98 stories, offering a variety of different aspects of creativity. Sabolius teaches courses on contemporary philosophy of art and theories of imagination, co-curated a few shows. He is also an active public intellectual and a writer of novels, theatre plays and scripts, including The Gambler (co-writer with Ignas Jonynas), Lithuania’s nomination for the foreign-language category at the 2015 Oscars.
Objector:
Marcin Rychter – philosopher, essayist and translator. Assistant Professor at the Deparment of the Philosophy of Culture of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. Deputy Editor-in-Chief at “Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture” (www.eidos.uw.edu.pl). Main fields of interest: philosophy of culture, philosophy of contemporary music, contemporary continental metaphysics, contemporary literature.
Disputatio / Seminar Room, 1st Floor / 4am / 50 min
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