Axel Honneth giving his Collegium Lecture
My personal research and reading focuses at the moment very much on Honneth as well as on Arto Laitinen and Heikki Ikäheimo, who have contributed to explicating and further developing the Honnethian concept(s) of recognition. Therefore, it was very nice indeed to be able to meet all three at once in Helsinki.
Arto Laitinen, Axel Honneth, and Heikki Ikäheimo
Our own CoE Reason and Religious Recognition was represented in the workshop programme by our Director Risto Saarinen, who discussed interesting cases of recognition in the pre-Hegelian sources of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), and John Calvin (1509-1564).
Saarinen giving his talk at the workshop
All in all, from a research point of view, the two days were highly interesting, very educating, and intellectually stimulating. They also provided a good opportunity to make new contacts with people working on themes related with recognition. Below are some more photos from "the recognition weekend".
Federica Gregoratto, who spoke on Pathologies of Love
Cillian McBride, who recently published his book on recognition
Nora Hämäläinen speaking on Emotional Capitalism
and the Epistemology of Suspicion
Axel Honneth and Sami Pihlström, who chaired the Collegium Lecture
Sari Roman-Lagerspetz with Honneth in the audience
CoE Ladies Anna-Liisa Tolonen and Maijastina Kahlos
ouside the main building after Honneth's lecture
The Honneth Reception at the Collegium Common Room
