Research News
Invited Lecture
On 15.2..2024, Prof. Anna Tomaszewska will give an invited lecture, titled "The Religion Kant Affirms: Between Deism and Christianity" at the American University in Bulgaria. More information and registration available from the link below.
Kant, an Enlightened Schwärmer
On October 23, 2023, at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska delivered a presentation titled “Kant, an Enlightened Schwärmer” as part of the extended seminar on “Ethics, Politics and Religion: Kantian Perspectives.”
Colloquium Presentation
Dr Anna Tomaszewska gave a paper titled “What Kind of Religion Did Kant Have?” at the colloquium “Kant’s Moral Vision as Affirmative Religion” at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in 31.3.2023.
BETWEEN SECULARIZATION AND REFORM
A volume edited by Anna Tomaszewska, published by Brill in 2022. The book asks to what extent Enlightenment was against religion and for reforming it. Contributors analyze early modern religious controversies, the significance of faith in national contexts, clandestine philosophy, varieties of rational religion, and the intermingling of heterodoxy with unbelief in the writings of key thinkers and less famous figures.
Meeting with Professor Ian Hunter
On 20.7.2023, the project members met Professor Ian Hunter to discuss his book draft on the Kantian religion. In the meeting, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska and Wojciech Kozyra gave short commentaries on Professor Hunter's work. Polish magazine "Filozofuj" also published a short report on even that can by clicking "Learn more" button.
KANT'S RATIONAL RELIGION AND THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT: From Spinoza to Contemporary Debates
A monograph by Dr. Anna Tomaszewska offers a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of religion. Published by Bloomsbury in 2022. A recent review in Kantian Review can be accessed here,
Kant’s ‘Deification’ of Reason in Opus Postumum
Dr. Anna Tomaszewska contributed a chapter on Kant's attempt to reconcile autonomy and God to Perspectives on Kant’s Opus postumum, ed. Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy (Routledge 2023).
Conference Paper
On 8.12.2022, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska presented a paper, titled "Czy „objawienie Boga w naszym własnym rozumie” jest doświadczeniem mistycznym? Uwagi o krytycznym mistycyzmie Immanuela Kanta" at the international conference on Mystical Experience in Culture and Science at the University of Wrocław.
Kant und Spinoza über die Liebe
als ein Merkmal der Vernunftreligion
Dr. Anna Tomaszewska published a chapter on Kant's conception of love in rational religion in a monograph, Liebe und Freiheit, edited by Norbert Fischer and Hans-Jürgen Müller (Aschendorff 2022).
Conscience and Moral Cognition: What Distinguishes Us from Machines
A chapter by Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen published in a monograph edited by Ingolf Dalferth and Raymond Perrier, titled Humanity: An Endangered Idea? (Mohr Siebeck 2023).
An article by Dr. Damian Barnat on the relationship between violence and religion has been published in open access in Religions, vol 13, issue 9 (2022).
Literatura jako teologia naturalna? Wątki postsekularne w późnych tekstach Andrzeja Kijowskiego
Dr. Marta Kwaśnicka's article on Andrzej Kijowski's conception of literature as natural theology has been published in Ethos, vol 35, issue 2 (2022)
A Paper for the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy
On 15.9.2022, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska gave her new paper, Between Heterodoxy and Irreligion: Johann Christian Edelmann’s Rational Spiritualism, at the 6th Annual Conference of ESEMP -Rethinking the Narratives of Early Modern Philosophy- at the University of Copenhagen.
A Conference Presentation
On 3.8.2022, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska gave a paper titled "Does religion fill the gap between ethics and politics? Kant’s conception of the 'visible church'" at the conference Right and Virtue: Kant and Early Modern German Philosophy organized at the University of Oslo.
Swedenborg's Religious Rationalism
Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen's article on Swedenborg's rationalist conception of religion was published in the Journal of Early Modern Studies, vol. 10 issue 2 (2021).
An Invited Talk
Dr. Anna Tomaszewska gave an invited presentation, titled “Schwärmerei” in the German Enlightenment: Religious and Philosophical at "The Driving Ideas of the German Enlightenment" conference at the ICUB Institute at Bucharest on 10.11.2022
Conference Paper
On 8.12.2022, Dr. Damian Barnat gave a paper, titled Religious Experience and Moral Transformation, at the international conference on Mystical Experience in Culture and Science at the University of Wrocław.
An Invited Talk
On 14.3.2022, Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen gave a presentation titled Self-Interested Self-Sacrifice: d'Holbach's Contribution to Virtue Theory at New Approaches to d’Holbach’s "Système de la nature" at Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford.
Kant and the Radical Critique of Religion
Dr. Anna Tomaszewska's article, based on her talk at Oslo Kant Congress in 2019, was published in The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress in 2021.
A Conference Presentation
On 24.9.2021, Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen gave a talk titled Spirit as the Unifier of Language and Experience in Swedenborg at The Seventh Ischia and Naples International Festival of Philosophy organized under auspices of the European Parliament.
A Conference Paper
Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen presented his yet-to-be-published research under the title The Beauty of Courage in the Face of the Fragility of Life:
Jean Buridan and His Unlikely 18th-century Followers on 1.10.2022 at the Eight Ischia and Naples International Festival of Philosophy,
A Conference Presentation
On 6.10.2021, Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen gave a talk titled The Loss of Logos: The Fall of Religious Rationalism in the late 18th Century at From Logos to Person conference at Polis Institute in Jerusalem.
Between Secularisation and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment
Lecture by Jeffrey D. Burson and Workshop: 8-9 October 2020, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Registration is now open.
Conscience's Fall from Grace: An Investigation into conceptual history
Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen's research article on the conceptual history of moral conscience has been published in 2021 in Intellectual History Review, Vol. 31, No. 2.
A Conference Presentation
On 27.9.2021, Dr. Damian Barnat presented a paper, titled Religious Sources of the Modern Individual at The Sixth International Congress of Religious Studies, jointly organized in Kraków by the Institute of Religious Studies at Jagiellonian University and the Polish Society of Religious Studies.
A Special Issue on Kant on the
Relations between Church and State
A Special Issue of Diametros in 2020, with an introduction by Anna Tomaszewska and articles by Gordon Michalson Jr., Stephen Palmquist, Dino Jakušić, Stefano Lo Re and Wojciech Kozyra.
MIĘDZY WIARĄ A NIEWIARĄ. CHARLES TAYLOR O KULTURZE ŚWIECKIEJ ŚWIATA ZACHODNIEGO
A monograph on Charles Taylor's philosophy by Dr. Damian Barnat. Published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika in 2019.
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A Workshop Talk
On 27.2.2020, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska gave a talk titled Kant's liberal religion and the relations between Church and State at research workshop Criticism of Religion in the Enlightenment Era at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main,
A Conference Presentation
On 5.6.2020, Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen presented a paper, titled Kant’s Long Shadow on the Interpretation of Swedenborg at Western E-vent in Early Modern Philosophy online conference. The paper is available for download at the conference website under the link below.
THE SOURCES OF SECULARISM
A collection of articles edited by Anna Tomaszewska and Hasse Hämäläinen, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. The articles show the great impact that the new ways of thinking about religion that emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries had on how we address problems related to religion in the public sphere in the world of today.
A Conference Presentation
On 29.9.2021, Dr. Anna Tomaszewska presented a paper, titled Spinoza's Critique and the Making of Modern Religion in the Enlightenment Era at The Sixth International Congress of Religious Studies, jointly organized in Kraków by the Institute of Religious Studies at Jagiellonian University and the Polish Society of Religious Studies.
Enlightenment
and Secularism
A Special Issue of Diametros, published in 2017, with articles by Stephen Palmquist, Sorin Baiasu, Geert Van Eekert, Mehmet Ruhi Demiray and other scholars.
OŚWIECENIOWE ŹRÓDŁA IDEI SEKULARYZMU
A collection of research articles on Enlightenment and the Idea of Secularism edited by Anna Tomaszewska and Damian Barnat and published by Jagiellonian University Press in 2017.
