WHERE IS THE TIME? FESTIVAL OF PHILOSOPHY HANOVER
05/24/23 - 06/09/23
FESTIVAL OF PHILOSOPHY 2023: WHERE IS THE TIME?
OPENING ON 5/24/23, 6 PM
WITH JUDITH VON RADETZKY
Performative impulse lecture: THE time engine
Musical guerrilla performance (idea: Lila Hess):
MUSICA ASSOLUTA
We constantly try to save time, but the time we gain slips between our fingers. We live longer today than we used to, but that doesn't mean we have more time.
Of course, passing is part of the nature of time. Its smallest extent seems to be the moment, the now - but the now cannot be held on to, it is over again before we have even reached out to it.
Time is in things, especially in living things, and therefore also in ourselves. However, if we want to measure them, we look for the position of the sun and moon (only recently have we defined the second after a period of oscillation in the cesium atom).
If we take a closer look, it becomes clear that “time” in the singular does not exist. Every living being, every person has their own. The more nervous we are about it, the more it slips away from us. This is probably why Ludwig Wittgenstein said: The greeting among philosophers should be “take your time”.
As in 2021, the Max Planck Society will co-organize the Festival of Philosophy in Hanover and the region and Max Planck researchers will talk to philosophers.
The Festival of Philosophy comes from Modena, where philosophical topics have attracted many people to the piazza every year since 2001. Since 2008, Hanover and the region have also been part of the now European festival network. The festival takes place here every two years.
The aim is to bring philosophy back to where it was originally at home: on the market, in the urban public.
As in 2021, the 8th Festival of Philosophy in 2023 will be organized together with the Max Planck Society.
Patronage: Consul General of the Italian Republic in Hanover, Mr. Dott. David Michelut
President of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Dr. Martin Stratman
Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture, Mr. Falko Mohrs