PREDAVANJE

TOMASZA KAMUSELLE

Imagining Nations: Ontological and Epistemic Objectivity

INSTITUT DRUŠTVENIH ZNANOSTI IVO PILAR

Marulićev trg 19/I, Zagreb

Srijeda, 19. travnja 2017., u 11h

Poštovane/i,

zadovoljstvo nam je pozvati Vas na predavanje dr. sc. Tomasza Kamuselle, koje će se održati u Multimedijalnoj dvorani Instituta društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, 19. travnja 2017. godine u 11h. Tomasz Kamusella profesor je moderne povijesti na School of History Sveučilišta St. Andrews u Škotskoj. U svojoj dosadašnjoj  karijeri, Tomasz Kamusella stekao je značajnu međunarodnu znanstvenu reputaciju interdiscipliniranim istraživanjima nacionalizma, etniciteta i jezične politike. Neka od  njegovih najvažnijih djela su Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.), The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (Palgrave, 2012.), Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Silesia (Purdue University Press, 2007.). Na predavanju u Institutu Ivo Pilar Tomasz Kamusella predstavit će nam svoje novo istraživanje pod nazivom Imagining Nations: Ontological and Epistemic Objectivity. U njemu se polazi od uvida o širokoj prihvaćenosti spoznaje da su nacije zamišljene zajednice, ali se pokušava propitati što zapravo to zamišljanje znači odnosno o kakvim oblicima egzistencije govorimo kada koristimo termin ''zamišljanja''. Za potpuniji uvid o temi predavanja u nastavku Vam donosimo sažetak na engleskom, jeziku na kojem će predavanje biti i održano.

Veselimo se Vašem dolasku.

Abstract:

In the last century and a half scholars from different disciplines began to distinguish between the material reality (universe), the biosphere, and the social reality (semiosphere), as three important heuristic categories. In the latter half of the 20th century, the philosophers John L. Austin and John Searle proposed that language and its use (languages) enable humans to generate social reality. They also analyzed the mechanisms of the process. From another perspective, the evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar offered an explanation of how language was selected in the process of human evolution, and argued that its primary function is group-building, that is, the generation of social cohesion. Drawing on these insights, the dilemma of whether nations exist objectively or are subjective entities can be resolved by analyzing this problem in the light of Searle’s distinction between ontological objectivity / subjectivity and epistemic objectivity / subjectivity.