While the present seems to be downright obsessed with history, it has increasingly become difficult to define its own historical context. Since the great historico-philosophical narrative of the modern, which accorded the present a logical slot within the present tends to defines itself as history. Orchestrated in cautionary recollections, retro trends and retrospectives of past awakenings, it seems to jeopardise the very nature of its own presence. The conference aims to tackle the challenge of addressing the present in its historical dimension.
Participants:
Alexander Alberro
Alex Demirovic
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Monika Juneja
Jutta Koether
Christian Kravagna
Susanne Leeb
Peter Osborne
Josef Strau
Concept: Helmut Draxler, AdBK Nürnberg
