El International Congress: A Stellar Friendship. Hegel and Hölderlin 1770-2020 It is part of the events being held worldwide to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Hegel and Hölderlin, the leading philosopher and poet of their time in Germany. The congress is co-organized by the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Complutense University of Madrid and University of Verona, and has the collaboration of German Embassy in Spain.

Coordinated by Ana Carrasco-Conde (Complutense University of Madrid), Laura Anna Macor (University of Verona), Valerio Rocco Lozano (Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid) and Eduardo Zazo (Autonomous University of Madrid).

Congress Program:

Miércoles 16.12.20

11:00 a.m. Opening: Participants Valerio Rocco (Director of the CBA), Patricia Martinez (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAM), Juan Antonio Valor (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the UCM) and Christoph Wolfrum (Minister Counselor of the German Embassy in Spain).
11:30 a.m. Ana Carrasco-Conde (UCM): Dissonances of the world: the negativity of knowledge in Hegel and Hölderlin.
12:30 p.m. Laura Anna Macor (University of Verona): Translating to Interpret. The Italian Editions of Hölderlin's Theoretical Writings.
13:30 p.m. Nuria Sánchez Madrid (UCM): One dreams of the ancient creative chaos. Poetry as art queer in Hölderlin.
17:00 PM. Giulio Goria (Università San Raffaele Milano): Hegel, Hölderlin and the beginning of philosophy.
18:00 PM. José Luis Villacañas (UCM): Hölderlin and Hegel: the complex reception of Carl Schmitt.
19:00 p.m. Presentation of the magazine AntítesisIbero-American Journal of Hegelian Studies, edited by Marcela Vélez (UAM) and Angelo Narváez (Society for Hegelian Studies).

Thursday 17.12.20

[su_note note_color="#cecec7" text_color="#333333" radius="3"]For reasons beyond our control Círculo de Bellas ArtesLuciana Cadahia's lecture scheduled for December 17th at 17:00 PM has been cancelled:

11:00 a.m. Valerio Rocco (UAM/CBA): Against nostalgia. Hegel fleeing from Hölderlin.
12:00 p.m. Vicente Serrano (University of Murcia): On Spinoza in Hegel and Hölderlin and edifying philosophy.
13:00h. Roberto Navarrete (UCM): Et de me fabula narratur. Hegel and Hölderlin in Frankfurt.
17:00 PM. Luciana Cadahia (Catholic University of Chile/Cornell University): The Republican Dawn (or the awakening of fraternity).
18:00 PM. Antonio Gómez Ramos (UC3M): Difficult free use of one's own work. Dialectics and translation between Hegel and Hölderlin
19:00 p.m. Alejandro Rojas (UMA): The friends of the Stift. The elevated Spirit is not far from friendship.

Friday 18.12.20

11:00 a.m. Berta M. Pérez (UV): The breakdown of the immediate: Hölderlin and Hegel.
12:00 PM. Marcela Vélez (UAM) Hegel and Hölderlin: keys to the paratactic project of Th. Adorno.
13:00h. Eduardo Zazo (UAM): The German Question in the Reception of Hegel's Philosophy.
17:00 p.m. Presentation of the journal Argumenta Philosophica (Herder Editorial). Thematic volume on Hegel for the 250th anniversary of his birth. Participants will include Raimund Herder (Herder Editor), Miguel Seguro (Magazine Editor), Felix Duke (Volume Coordinator) and Valerio Rocco (Director of the CBA).
18:00 PM. Closing remarks by Félix Duque (UAM): Aesthetics as a compensation mechanism in the modern world.

We were friends and became strangers. But it is fair, and we do not wish to disguise it as if we were ashamed of it. We are two ships, each with its own goal and its own course; we may very well pass each other and celebrate together, as we did—then the two good ships were so peacefully anchored in the same harbor and under the same sun, that they seemed as if they had already reached their goal, a goal that had been the same for both of them. But just then the omnipotent force of our task pushed us away again, to different seas and suns, and perhaps we will never see each other again—perhaps we will even see each other, but without recognizing one another: the different seas and suns have changed us! That we become strangers is the law that hangs over us: but it is precisely for this reason that we must be inspired with greater reverence! Precisely for this reason, the thought of our past friendship must be made all the more sacred! There is probably an immense, invisible sidereal curve and a sidereal orbit, where our different paths and goals could be understood as narrow stretches of road—let us ascend to this thought! But our life is too short, our visual capacity too limited, to be anything more than friends in the sense of that lofty possibility. And that is why we want to believe in our stellar friendship, even though we are earthling enemies of one another.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Gay science

Aphorism 279 of Gay science Nietzsche's words lend themselves well to describing the relationship between Hegel and Hölderlin, university colleagues and close friends during a delicate period of transition for European history, politics, and philosophy. From their native Swabia to the Frankfurt and Bad Homburg circles, the two pairs shared a period of stimulating theoretical experimentation and confidently shaping the future, only to drift apart gradually but inexorably when radically different personal destinies intervened, interrupting this fruitful dialogue. 250 years after their births, this conference aims to draw the attention of the public, not just specialists, to the extraordinary nature of this fertile intellectual constellation, reshaping its profile in light of the most recent scholarship.

Hegel's Bildung, a very wet path

Installation by Alexandra Kuhn [Valle-Inclán lobby]. Alexandra Kuhn (Master of Arts and Artistic Professions from our Escuela SUR 2014 – 2016) shows us Hegel's Bildung, a very wet path, a video and an artist's book that proposes an extended image, an unfolded vision, a point of view expressed from an extract of the section The Spirit estranged from itself; culture in the Phenomenology of Spirit of Hegel.
With this piece, the artist attempts to highlight the union of to be y nature, understanding ourselves as part of it, one with it, being it, and therefore co-participants in the same reaction that the formation signifies.

El Círculo de Bellas Artes and #HegelNow

This International Congress: A Stellar Friendship. Hegel and Hölderlin 1770-2020 It serves as a conclusion to a year in which the Círculo de Bellas Artes has become involved in the European university project Hegel Now!celebrating various events related to the German philosopher. Throughout 2020, the CBA's Publications Department published the book Hegel. Logic and Constitution (Félix Duque ed.)which completes Hegel. The Odyssey of the SpiritAlso by Félix Duque, published previously; the essay is available on the blog. Valerio Rocco Thinking about the nature of Hegel in times of pandemic, which offers an ecological approach to his thinking and reinforces the # sealCírculoFor the Climate; one of the great mysteries of Philosophy has also been solved, along with Félix Duque and Dr. Juan Antonio Vargas, namely the one surrounding... the true cause of Hegel's deathwhich has even prompted a change in its entry into wikipedia, which until recently claimed was from cholera; the past On August 27, the CBA celebrates the philosopher's birthday (it would be 250 years old) with a special video and various social media posts; and, finally, the Seminar The Aesthetics of Spirit: Hegel and the Others, has been developed these past months with great success in terms of participants.

[raffle of publications for congress attendees]