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:

❧ Introduction; the Sources: Francesco Petarca, Pico della Mirandola,  Marsilio Ficino, Desiderius Erasmus
❧ The Followers: Montaigne, Shakespeare, Hryhoryi Skovoroda
❧ The Point of Reference: Thomas Mann’s ‘Magic Mountain’
❧ Anti-Humanism: The Russian and the French Traditions, and How They Are Connected
❧ Catholic Humanists: Czesław Miłosz & Jacques Maritain
❧ When Humanism is not Enough: Panhumanism
❧ The Sceptic: T. S. Eliot
❧ On Vocation: Ortega y Gasset
❧ Scientists & the Humanist Philosopher: Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Brian Cox
❧ Great Women Meet Humanists: George Eliot’s ‘Romola’ and Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘Monna Vanna’
❧  A Humanist Dreamland: Ernst Cassirer & the Warburg School
❧ Is Existentialism a Humanism? Camus, Sartre, Heidegger
❧  Jewish & Hebrew Humanism 
❧ Humanist Architecture vs. Gothic Architecture

All questions are welcome.

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