Tuesday 1 December 2015

Performing Bodies (eds Jutta Vinzent and Christopher M. Wojtulewicz)

Soon to appear:



What is time, what is space and how do they relate to each other? Even to pose these questions is to presume their existence, says Meister Eckhart in his Commentary on Exodus, from where he then develops his own view on the subject. Although far from having become mainstream, his redefinition of time as presentiality and space as noncategorical creativity had an enormous influence throughout history, particularly in the arts. In this thematic volume the contributors explore the concepts of time and space in Eckhart’s thought, situating these historically, philosophically, theologically, and culturally, whilst also focusing on their interpretation in art works, particularly by the American-Korean performance and video artist Taery Kim (b. 1988) who refers explicitly to Eckhart. Kim advances the questions ‘what is time?’ and ‘what is space?’ as embodied questions in her performances and video installations, thus exploring Eckhart and inquiring into the ways we can think about our relationships, as embodied subjects, to the vagrancies and bindings of time and space now. Drawing together artists, art historians, theologians, and philosophers, as well as building on existing scholarship, this volume provides the first lengthy discussion of spatio-temporality in Eckhart’s writings, highlighting Eckhart’s relationship to performance art, and the works of Kim.
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Bettina Hollstein on 'Pragmatic business ethics - the case of corruption'

Here the abstract of her workshop paper:

Based on the systematic considerations for a pragmatic social and economic ethics in her habilitation thesis ("Understanding voluntary work") her new project is to develop elements of a pragmatic business ethics. For this end, there will be an emphasis on action theory and emotions, embodiment, creativity, routines, situations, patterns of interpretation and collective narrations. These considerations are to be developed on the basis of specific cases of business ethics where corruption is a key element, as corruption has become a topic of attention in the public over the last twenty years.