The seminar has been designed for students of the a.r.t.e.s. Research Master. The seminar languages are German and English. All guests are welcome. 

The topics for the 14 weeks of the summer semester are:

April 14: Introduction: The Sources: Petrarca, Pico, Ficino, Erasmus 
April 21: The Followers: Montaigne, Shakespeare, Skovoroda
April 28: The Point of Reference: Thomas Mann’s ‘Magic Mountain’ 
May 5: Anti-Humanism: The Russian Traditions
May 12: Who Hears the Vocation: Ortega y Gasset
May 19: The Sceptic: T. S. Eliot 
June 2: Great Women Meet Humanists I: George Eliot: Romola
June 9: A Humanist Dreamland: Ernst Cassirer & the Warburg School
June 16: Catholic Humanism: Jacques Maritain & Czesław Miłosz
June 23: Is Existentialism a Humanism? Camus & Sartre 
June 30: Jewish and Hebrew Humanism 
July 7: Humanism and Time: Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Brian Cox
July 14: When Humanism is not Enough: Panhumanism OR Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism
July 21: Anti-Humanism: The French Tradition

All questions are welcome.

The seminar will be followed by the research colloquium ‘Analogue Humanities‘ in the winter semester.