“Loving people is the only thing worth living for.” – Søren Kierkegaard
I will be participating in the “Ciclo de conferencias ‘Europa en la cultura'” held at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador.
The conference takes place next week.
Tuesday the 10th of December, I will be given a talk on “Kierkegaard and the concept of love as a political force.”
“Everything I do I do with love, and so I also love with love,” Kierkegaard writes in Either-Or.
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The following two days, the 11th and 12th respectively, I will be organizing two seminars or lectures on “Philosophy, literature and a new therapeutical approach to life.”
During these seminars, I will relate my thoughts to philosophers such as Deleuze, Weil, Murdoch and Wittgenstein to both problematize our current achievement society, as well as proposing possible escape routes. To strengthen my argument, I will–briefly–refer to artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Karl Ove Knausgård, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Roberto Bolaño.
If you happen to be in Quito, Ecuador, you’re welcome!
FINN JANNING 