Agnes Heller’s theory of emotions in context

Agnes Heller’s theory of emotions in contextEötvös Loránd University Budapest, Faculty of Humanities 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/i. Lecture Hall Bence György

Thursday, 16 November Friday, 17 November

09:30 – 10:00 Opening: Gábor Boros (ELTE) 10:00 – 10:50 Dmitri Nikulin (New School for Social Research): The Laughing Philosopher: The Affectionate Laughter of Agnes Heller

12:10 – 13:00 Angel Hyeyoung Kim (Institut Jean Nicod ENS): Involvement, Relationship and Feelings

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

10:50 – 11:20 Coffee break11:40 – 12:10 Coffee break

14:30 – 15:20 Ingrid Vendrell-Ferran (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Aesthetic empathy

14:30 – 15:20 Anna Varga-Jani (Catholic University Piliscsaba): “I am indifferent, the thing or event has no meaning for me, that is, ‘I do not feel.’” On the phenomenological interpretation of Agnes Heller’s A Theory of feelings

10:00 – 10:50 Csaba Pléh (CEU/University of Eger): Heller’s emotion theory and the revisions of the “gutsy” human essence 10:50 – 11:40 Christiane Voss (Bauhaus University Weimar): The critical role of

desubjectification in Heller’s and Massumi’s affect-theories

13:00 – 14:30 lunch break

11:20 – 12:10 Péter Lautner (Catholic University Piliscsaba): Aristotelian emotions12:10 – 13:00 Mario Wenning (University of Macau): Utopia and the Emotions: Agnes

Heller on the Power of Wishing Well

15:20 – 16:10 Bodor Péter (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences): Emotional time 15:20 – 16:10 Tibor Pólya (Institute pf Psychology HAS): Does narrative construction reflect emotional intelligence?

16:40 – 17:30 Mihály Vajda (University of Eger): Leidenschaft – was ist das?

16:10 – 16:40 Coffee break

16:10 – 16:30 Concluding words: Csaba Olay

17:30 – 18:20 Ágnes Heller (ELTE Faculty of Humanities): On empathy

ELTE – Department of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy – NKFIH research group “Self-interpretation, emotions, narrativity” – Centre for Hungarian Philosophy