[Commlist] Martin Buber's Philosophy of Communication: Seminar Series, School of Advanced Study

Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Communication

An interdisciplinary seminar series spanning communication theory, media 
studies, philosophy, German studies and social theory, hosted by the 
Ernst Bloch Centre, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of 
Advanced Study, University of London.

Martin Buber's dialogical philosophy contains a fundamental reflection 
on the nature of human communicative relations and how they can be 
participated in, interpreted, and studied. In this seminar series we 
will examine Buber's main writings, focusing on his claim that the 
dialogical I-Thou relation differs fundamentally from social relations, 
that it can only be understood on its own terms, that it exists in 
communicative speech (even though not always words are exchanged in 
concrete I-Thou instances) and that it resists all attempts at 
objectification. We will bring this claim into conversation with other 
approaches to understanding human relations and the nature of the 
social, e.g. Marxism, feminism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, 
communication theory and contemporary social philosophy. We will ask how 
interhuman communication and the social are related. Could a 
future-oriented, utopian horizon to human relationality emerge as the 
mediation between the interhuman and the social? How might this inform a 
contemporary assessment of Buber’s work? We’ll work with primary texts 
by Buber and others, as well as with literary and first-person accounts 
of relationality and dialogue.

Convenors:

Johan Siebers (Middlesex, SAS), Vic Seidler (Goldsmiths, Leo Baeck 
College), Federico Filauri (SAS)

Seminars in Semester One will take place on Mondays, from 16:00-18:00 
GMT via Zoom, on 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December 2020. 
Dates for Semester Two will be announced later in the year

Registration: 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ernst-bloch-centre-german-thought/martin-bubers-philosophy-communication-2020-21

Please register in advance to obtain the zoom link, further seminar 
information and a reading list. Registration is free.

For further information, contact (johan.siebers /at/ sas.ac.uk)


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