SEMPER KANT

One of the eminent philosophers of modernity, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), was born on April 22, 1724, in the then Prussian city of Königsberg - now Russia's Kaliningrad. A universal, prodigious, exploratory mind, kept free of his own rigor.

Perhaps not all of you know that Kant taught Geography, among other subjects, for forty years, from 1756 to 1796, devoting to this discipline a number of Courses (49) inferior only to those in logic and metaphysics (54). The University of Salento, the University of Cagliari and IULM University, on the initiative of Rector Fabio Pollice, and Professors Marcello Tanca and Marco Maggioli, geographers, have decided to honor this Kantian tricentennial with a Permanent Seminar (SEMPER), during which Kant's geographical thought will be investigated from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

Three events will thus take place during the course of the year: the first in October in Cagliari, where the g.e.n.e.s.i.s. of the Baltic philosopher's geographical thought was staged; the second in November in Milan, in IULM, will deal with the r.e.c.e.p.t.i.o.n. in the period when Geography is "institutionalized" as an academic discipline and knowledge at once scholastic and performative (explorations, colonialism, geopolitics); finally in December in Lecce, we will focus on p.e.r.s.p.e.c.t.i.v.e, questioning in some way the geographical destiny of Kant's philosophical thought.
A great scientific and cultural enterprise, to which many scientific, cultural, and associative institutions have lent their support, which will involve some 30 scholars including geographers, philosophers, historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, both Italian and foreign.

Thursday, November 14 from 2:30 p.m.

Aula Seminari (IULM 1)

Download here the event poster