Universität Wien

180045 VO-L Lecture Series: Figures of the Stranger in the History of Philosophy (2025W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
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Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 14.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 28.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 16.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 13.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 20.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9

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Aims, contents and method of the course

This lecture course focuses on figures of the stranger / strangeness in contemporary debates on diversity, difference and otherness. The discourse on alterity/strangeness here is taken up from the perspective of the history of philosophy, including positions from antiquity to the contemporary world. The general question to be asked concerns the various ways the stranger / strangeness has been confronted and assimilated by philosophy: has philosophy sovereignly assimilated such experiences and instances, or has it truly confronted them, thus allowing for its own transformation. In the course exemplary ways of representing "the other" in terms of "barbarians," "cannibals," or "terrorists" will be reflected in terms of neuralgic points in the philosophical discourse of modernity--a discourse that has all too often and all too quickly either assimilated alterity or rather has relegated it to the margins of rationality and humanity. By way of confronting figures of the stranger beyond the dichotomy of assimilation and extrusion, myth and Enlightenment, etc., it shall be demonstrated how the tropes of "the other," "the stranger," or the "monstrous" continue to haunt our most dear philosophical discourses.

14.10.2025: Allgemeines & Einführung in den Themenkreis
21.10.2025: Irene Salzmann & Sophie Veigl: „Inkommensurabilität – Begegnungen des Ungleichen“
28.10.2025: Stefan Büttner: “Die Griechen und die Weisheit der Barbaren”
04.11.2025: Nevim Borcin: „ Aristotle on the Nature of Natural Slavery "
11.11.2025: George Karamanolis: „Die Figur der Frau im Denken des Aristoteles“
18.11.2025: Martin Huth: „Tierheit, Fremdheit, Verletzlichkeit“
25.11.2025: Ricardo Alcocer Urueta: „Zur Assimilation der ‚Indianer‘ in der frühen spanischen Kolonialisierung Amerikas”
02.12.2025: Narzissa Helfritzsch: “Zwischen Eigenem und Fremden. Überlegungen zum Gebrauch von Begriffen für die Anderen“
09.12.2025: Katerina Koci: „TBA“
16.12.2025: Flora Löffelmann: “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: Die Mobilisierung von Täuschungs-Narrativen in transantagonistischen Argumenten”
13.01.2025: Ali Emre Benli: „The Immigrant in Immigration Ethics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“
20.01.2025: Christoph Paret: „Weitermachen nach dem Ende: Der Bastler bei Sohn-Rethel, Levi-Strauss, Derrida und Kluge“
27.01.2025: 1. Schriftlicher Prüfungstermin

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam, no materials permitted

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

For every exam questions regarding 4 topics dealt with in the lecture course will be asked. Three among those have to be answered. For every questions 10 points can be achieved., thus a total of max. 30. The evaluation key is as follows: .

30 – 28 points: grade 1
27 – 24 points: grade 2
23 – 20 points: grade3
19 – 15 points: grade 4
14 – 0 points: grade 5

Examination topics

The papers delivered in the lecture course ("Ring-Vorlesung").

Reading list

The additional materials offered by the speakers and organizers will prove helpful for achieving the goals of the course.

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