Imagination and morality: a study on the work of Günther Anders

• Grant number: 19/09295-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2019
• End date: June 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Eduardo Arantes
• Grantee: Felipe Catalani
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/13240-9 - Günther Anders: between philosophical anthropology and critique of culture, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research project aims to interpret the work of the philosopher Günther Anders (1902 - 1992), investigating above all his reflections on morals that arise in the context of the so-called "Nuclear Age" (an era that became, for the author, an object of philosophical relevance). Such reflections on morality must be understood in its articulation with a critique of society, so that morality is not understood here as an autonomous discipline, with indications for the correct action, but as something necessarily linked to a knowledge of social and historical reality (and to a specific time diagnosis, which gains here the sense of a diagnosis of a transformation of the human condition). Having in mind this articulation between knowledge and morality as the core of that philosophical tradition that has been conventionally called critical theory, this research will seek to carry out a dialogue with this tradition, although Anders has never officially linked himself to the Frankfurtian Institute and is not included in the classical historiography about the "Frankfurt School". A central moment of this research will be the investigation of how the imagination, for Anders, assumes an importance in this articulation between moral reflection and knowledge of the world. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CATALANI, Felipe. The enemy of the apocalypse: technology, politics and history in Günther Anders. 2024. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.