{"id":8196,"date":"2024-09-18T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/prof-dmitri-nikulin\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:34:58","slug":"prof-dmitri-nikulin","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/prof-dmitri-nikulin\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dmitri Nikulin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project title:<\/strong><br\/>Responsibility and Hope<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<br\/><\/strong>After the publication of Hans Jonas&#8217; <em>Das Prinzip Verantwortung<\/em> forty years ago, the principle of responsibility has become a key concept in moral and political debates. Yet the unconditional responsibility for the possibility of the existence of future generations &#8211; not only of humans, but also of other living beings &#8211; is invariably accompanied by the &#8220;heuristics of fear,&#8221; which presupposes imagining the worst-case scenario and a pronouncedly bleak future. The dystopian principle of responsibility was introduced as a response to Bloch&#8217;s <em>Das Prinzip Hoffnung<\/em>, which envisions the possibility of a utopian future for humanity. The proposed project will discuss these two principles and will argue that they are not mutually exclusive, so that, while still preserving the imperative of responsibility, one can maintain a utopian ideal as a regulative idea for moral and political action.   <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Thursday, October 17, 2019<br\/>Fellow Colloquium<\/em><br\/><strong>&#8220;Rethinking Responsibility&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research Project:<\/strong><br\/>Critique of Bored Reason<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research Project:<\/strong><br\/>This project is meant to provide a critique of some forms of modern radical philosophy by drawing its genealogy from Diogenes the Cynic to Nietzsche and contemporary thinkers like Rorty, Ranci\u00e8re and Agamben. It revolves around the topic of boredom as the mode of being of the contemporary monological and lonely subject who exists in isolation and thinks himself in constant repetition. Scandal, then, is an attempt to overcome the state of the exclusion of the other, which is expressed epistemologically in the idea of the modern scientific revolution, aesthetically in modernism, and politically and socially in the idea of political revolution. I intend to argue for an understanding of reason as communicative and comically scandalous, capable of providing real answers to real problems, rather than being a negative instrument of the destruction of tradition and establishing one&#8217;s autonomous self.   <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events:<br\/><\/strong><em>Lecture, December 7, 2015<\/em><br\/>Collective Memory and Collective Recollection<br\/>Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universit\u00e4t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York Research project title:Responsibility and Hope AbstractAfter the publication of Hans Jonas&#8217; Das Prinzip Verantwortung forty years ago, the principle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1636,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8196","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}