King's College London Annual Mark Sainsbury Lecture 2024
Thu 16 May 2024 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K.6.29), Strand, WC2R 2LS
Description
King's College London Annual Mark Sainsbury Lecture 2024
Thursday 16 May, 6–8 p.m.
Venue: KCL Strand Campus, King's Building, Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K.6.29)
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
"Kant the Alchemist and the Philosophers’ Stone" by Anthony Savile, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy (KCL)
Abstract: Proust tells us: ‘The creation of the world did not take place at the beginning; the world is perpetually created every day’; he then has Gilberte Swann turn to dross the gold of her social position as she becomes marquise de Saint-Loup and subsequently duchesse de Guermantes.
Kant, by contrast, turns the subjectively understood dross of aesthetic taste into the objective gold of richly fulfilled culture. The stone he relies on is advertised on the cover of his book: it is Urteilskraft, the power of judgment -- teleologically deployed. Nonetheless, his magic is no less fragile than is Proust’s.
The lecture will be followed by a presentation of a festschrift (Routledge), by Anthony Savile and Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck College).
Reception will follow in the Anatomy Museum.
Registration is required. Registration closes on 13 May at 11.59 p.m.
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Location
Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K.6.29), Strand, WC2R 2LS