In our times, the future is an ordinary issue. From the EU Recovery Plan called “Next generation EU” to the ecologic appeals to sustainability – all this is about the future to shape. But it has not always been in this way. The future in our sense of comprehension is a quite recent “discovery” and has to do with the philosophy. It dates back to the post-Hegelian debates. In that frame of discussion, one of the first promoters of the claim of the future was the Polish aristocrat August von Cieszkowski. He was interested in developing Hegel's philosophy to make it more consistent with its premises than Hegel himself did and in philosophically assuring the development of the social world towards freedom and emancipation. So, by claiming to the “necessity” of the future, he proposed a philosophical program in which a new relationship between the theory and the praxis, the philosophical thought and the historical action, the philosophy and the social life was to establish. The seminar tries to give a critical account of these claims by highlighting Cieszkowski’s stance.
- Lehrende/r: Elena Alessiato