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(ANSA) – VERONA, JULY 23 – For the first time, the “Friedrich Nietzsche Society” is meeting in Italy, at the University of Verona. This prestigious international association for studies on the thought of the German philosopher is made up of scholars from Anglo-Saxon countries and Nietzsche scholars from all over the world, who work in English.
From 25 to 27 July, the Polo Zanotto of the University of Verona will host the 29th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, entitled “Nietzsche in the Anthropocene”, organized by Laura Langone, of the University of Cambridge, and Carlo Chiurco, of the Department of Engineering for Innovative Medicine of Verona.
The conference aims to rediscover Nietzsche’s philosophy as a “philosophy of the environment”, that is, capable of orienting human beings in the urgent environmental challenges of our time, which has been given the name of “Anthropocene” to underline how human activities constitute a real geological force, capable of impacting the planet’s ecosystem starting from the industrial revolution, which began about two centuries ago.
The conference is funded by the European Union through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the European Union programme to promote excellence in research. In particular, “Nietzsche in the Anthropocene” is among the dissemination activities of the project “Net-Nietzsche’s Environmental Ethics” (Environmental ethics starting from Nietzsche) won by Langone and supervised by Chiurco. The Net project aims to demonstrate how Nietzsche’s philosophy provides an environmental ethics capable of guiding our daily actions in respect of nature.
The conference promises to be one of the largest conferences on Nietzsche in Italy and in the world. In addition to individual lectures held by scholars among the greatest experts on Nietzsche in the world, in two days there will be five panels on different aspects of the Anthropocene, with three speakers each.
Around 80 speakers will compare their ideas on the role of Nietzsche’s philosophy in the Anthropocene. (ANSA).
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