Life, Organisms, and Human Nature New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy

Luca Corti is Assistant Professor at the University of Padua as well as Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Padua, the University of Chicago, and the University Paris I Sorbonne. His research focuses on German Idealism (especially Kant and Hegel), philosophy of nature and organism as well as contemporary analytical philosophy. He has published two books and several articles on these topics. He is co-editor of Sellars and The History of Modern Philosophy (Routledge 2018) and Normativity and the Life Sciences: Analytical and Continental Perspectives (HPLS, 2021). He is PI of the German-Italian  DAAD project  “Rethinking Nature”, the Italian National Project (PRIN) “Understanding Natural History: Nature, Evolution and Human Beings” as well as of the DFG research network on “Classical German Anthropologies” .

Johannes-Georg Schülein is Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Philosophy Department and the ResearchCenter for Classical German Philosophy / Hegel Archive at the University of Bochum, Germany. His research focusses on Classical German Philosophy and its contemporary appeal. He is the author of the book Metaphysik und ihre Kritik bei Hegel und Derrida (Meiner, 2016) and of several articles on Hegel, Kant, Schelling, and Spinoza. He is the managing editor of the international journal Hegel-Studien and PI of the German-Italian research project “Rethinking Nature” as well as of the DFG research network “Classical German Anthropologies”.