On 4th September 2025, the International Workshop “Thinking Nature and Particularity: Philosophical Trajectoriesfrom Schiller and Hegel to Hans Jonas” will be held at the University of Verona, Aula Menegazzi (Ex Palazzo di Economia), Via dell’Artigliere 19, Verona. The event will take place both in person and online (please contact giulia.battistoni@univr.it to receive the Zoom link to participate remotely).

The event, organised by Dr. Giulia Battistoni, Prof. Giorgio Erle andProf. Laura Anna Macor. The workshop is part of the activities of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie research project “ReNa” (Collective Responsibility towards Nature and Future Generations), funded by the European Union and carried out by Dr. Giulia Battistoni from the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Verona, under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Erle, from the same department.

The workshop aims to explore conceptions of nature and particularity in modern and contemporary philosophy. Bringing together international scholars, it focuses on the thought of Kant, Schiller, and Hegel in dialogue with Hans Jonas, to shed light on current issues such as subjectivity, civil society, and the contemporary debate on biodiversity. The event offers a critical and interdisciplinary forum for discussion.

See below the programme:

10:00–10:15 — Welcoming remarks (Chair: Laura Anna Macor, University of Verona)

10:15–11:00 — Rebecca Stewart-Gray (Oklahoma State University): “Einheit fordert zwar die Vernunft, die Natur aber Mannichfaltigkeit”: Schiller on ‘Natur’ and ‘Mannigfaltigkeit’ in the Aesthetic Letters

11:00–11:45 — Lucas Nascimento Machado (University of Verona): From the real ground to the determinant form: on the problem of determination in Kant and Hegel

11:45–12:00 — Coffee break

12:00–12:45 — Klaus Vieweg (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Besonderheit – The Right of the Subject’s Particularity and the Principle of the Civil Society

13:00–14:30 — Lunch break

14:30–15:15 — Giorgio Erle (University of Verona): Dalla biologia filosofica alla filosofia della natura: un viaggio di ritorno da Jonas a Hegel

15:15–16:00 — Giulia Battistoni (University of Verona): Varietà e natura: tracce di un discorso sulla biodiversità in Hegel e Jonas

16:00–16:15 — Concluding remarks (Discussants: Davide Bondì, Gualtiero Lorini, Alessandro Stavru)

The event is organised in collaboration with the Centro “Ricerche di Gnoseologia e Metafisica”

With the patronage of: Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos, Società Italiana di Filosofia Morale, Società Italiana di Teoria Critica, Hegel Now! International Centre for Philosophical and Artistic Research, Società Italiana di Storia della Filosofia