{"id":128255,"date":"2026-05-14T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/kolokvij-estlab-a-heideggerovo-pismo-o-humanizmu\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:32:14","slug":"estlab-colloquium-heideggers-letter-on-humanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/estlab-colloquium-heideggers-letter-on-humanism\/","title":{"rendered":"EstLab Colloquium: Heidegger\u2019s Letter on Humanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are talking about\u2026 Humanism. What is the occasion? Well, reading a philosophical text written 80 years ago. Yet the \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d \u2013 which still remains of crucial importance to us \u2013 calls us into the \u201cproximity of Being\u201d. The question was: How can we restore meaning to the word HUMANISM<\/em>? It was posed by none other than Martin HEIDEGGER, an iconic name associated with the \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d (which we still also call\u2026 philosophy). Where does the humanity of the human being<\/em> reside? The author of the key philosophical book of the 20th century, Being and Time<\/em><\/strong> (1927), would say that it is contained in the human being\u2019s essence\u2026 and that this essence, in turn, rests in their ek-sistence<\/em><\/strong>. In ek-sisting, the TRUTH of Being is preserved\u2026<\/p>\n

But what does this discussion mean to us today? Can Heidegger\u2019s \u201cdiscourse\u201d somehow be made understandable<\/em> so that we might begin, at least to some extent, to grasp what is happening to us today<\/em><\/strong>(?) Perhaps it is not entirely appropriate to use the discourse of someone who, in the history of the 20th century, remained associated with the controversial Schwarze Hefte<\/em><\/strong>!? Deleuze and Guattari speak of this \u201cshame\u201d that had to enter philosophy. They say that Heidegger \u201clost his way along the paths of reterritorialization, for they are paths without signposts or protective barriers\u201d (\u201cGeophilosophy\u201d in their book What Is Philosophy?<\/em>, 1991).<\/p>\n

But in a world dominated by meaninglessness<\/em>, do we wish to restore MEANING to the word humanism? We are prepared to make a pact with the devil himself if that is what it takes. Even with Heidegger himself! But\u2026 let us abandon sensationalist discourse and return to the \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d. What matters is that \u201c\u2026 the truth of Being comes to language and that thinking<\/strong> reaches this language\u201d. Then we would surely not fear that \u201cphilosophy lies on its deathbed\u201d (Badiou). That is why it remains important for us, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, to continue talking about\u2026 philosophy<\/em><\/strong>. At a time when homelessness reigns over the remnants of what we call the \u201cworld\u201d, it is essential for us to dwell in \u201clanguage as the house of Being\u201d. Likewise, we must follow the instruction to be \u201cshepherds of Being\u201d. Nooo, this is not meekness or humility! Devotion to the \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d is the last refuge in which we encounter a deeper MEANING. And YEEES\u2026 in an age threatened by universal catastrophe, the ancient question becomes ever more pressing: Why is there SOMETHING rather than<\/em> NOTHING?? Let us try to think der andere Anfang<\/em>, a \u201cnew beginning\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Let us discuss all of this \u2013 as well as other phenomena of the present day \u2013 with Dean KOMEL<\/strong>, philosopher\/professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana! It will all take place in room 39 at FFOS, on Tuesday, 19 May 2026, starting at 5:30 p.m.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

mk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are talking about\u2026 Humanism. What is the occasion? Well, reading a philosophical text written 80 years ago. Yet the \u201cmatter of thinking\u201d \u2013 which still remains of crucial importance to us \u2013 calls us into the \u201cproximity of Being\u201d. The question was: How can we restore meaning to the word HUMANISM? It was posed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":128253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"calendar":[],"class_list":["post-128255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements-and-notices","topics-estlab","odsjeci-department-of-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128257,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128255\/revisions\/128257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128255"},{"taxonomy":"calendar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/calendar?post=128255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}