Lenart Škof
Lenart Škof is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Centre (Koper, Slovenia) and Dean at Alma Mater Europaea – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He is also Visiting Professor of Religion at Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Theology at University of Ljubljana. Lenart Škof received KAAD grant (Universität Tübingen), Fulbright grant (Stanford University, academic host: Richard Rorty) and Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers (Max Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt, academic host: Hans Joas). His main research interests lie in new cosmology and new materialism, philosophical theology and the philosophy of American pragmatism. He is the president of Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion and a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg). He recently co-edited Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice (Lexington Books, 2021), Atmospheres of Breathing (New York: SUNY Press 2018), The Poesis of Peace (Routledge, 2017) and Breathing with Luce Irigaray (Bloomsbury, 2013). He is an author of several books, among them Antigone’s Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (New York: SUNY Press, 2021), Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics and Peace (Springer, 2015) and and Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life (Lexington Books, 2012).
less
Related Authors
InterestsView All (14)
Uploads
Books by Lenart Škof
“Using matrixiality as a key concept, Lenart Škof offers an ethical horizon through new insights into Antigone and her genealogical ‘sisters,’ daringly comparing Antigone’s task with Jesus’s redemptory mission. The matrixial core of love, reaching the ontological margins of birth and death and inaugurating a matrixial covenant, is the heart of this original conceptualization of an ethical core in the bridging between mythology and theology for our contemporary humanity.” — Bracha L. Ettinger, author of The Matrixial Borderspace and Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics
As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with human life and experience. Various dimensions of the respiratory world are referred to as “atmospheres” that encircle and connect human existence, coexistence, and the world.
Drawing from a number of traditions of breathing, including from Indian and East Asian religion and philosophy, the book considers breath in relation to ontological, hermeneutical, phenomenological, ethical, and aesthetic concerns in philosophy. The wide-ranging topics include poetry, theater, environmental issues and health, feminism, and media studies. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6557-atmospheres-of-breathing.aspx
The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.
TOC:
Tomaž Grušovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Škof
Introduction
Part I: Bordering Topologies
Chapter 1: Edward S. Casey
Moving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies
Chapter 2: Mary Watkins
From Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-Neighbor
Chapter 3: Eduardo Mendieta
Lethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological Dispositifs
Chapter 4: Helena Motoh
Borders in Between—The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History
Part II: Debordering Praxes
Chapter 5: Victor Forte
Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World
Chapter 6: Mary Leonard
Borders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and Flow
Chapter 7: Reingard Spannring
The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
Chapter 8: Tomaž Grušovnik
Debordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality
Part III: Worlding Hospitableness
Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd Giesen
Debordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of Hospitableness
Chapter 10: Petri BerndtsonCultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of Hospitality
Chapter 11: Lenart Škof
Lamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of Hospitality
Chapter 12: Shé Hawke
Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects—Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality
Inhaltsübersicht:
• ERSTER TEIL: Von mesokosmischen Ritualen: drei Steigerungen
1 Den mesokosmischen Ritualen in den Veden entgegen
2 Schelling, oder aus dem Abgrund der Ethik
3 Ein neuer Weg der Geste: G.H. Mead
• ZWEITER TEIL: Zwei Variationen zu den Elementen Wasser und Luft
4 Feuerbachs Pneumatische Wasserheilkunde
5 Atem und Sein bei Heidegger
• DRITTER TEIL: Rückkehr des Atems
6 Ethik des Atems – Derrida, Lévinas, Irigaray
7 Atem der Stille
Table of Contents
1 Introduction.- Part I: On Mesocosmic Rituals: Three Accelerations.- 2 Towards Mesocosmic Rituals in the Vedas.- 3 Schelling, or From the Abyss of Ethics.- 4 A New Way of Gesture (G. H. Mead).- PART II: Two Intermediate Variations on the Elements of Water and Air.- 5 Feuerbach’s “Pneumatische Wasserheilkunde”.- 6 Heidegger’s Hölderlinian Breath.- Part III: Communities of Breathing, Communities of Peace.- 7 Ethics of Breath: Derrida, Lévinas and Irigaray.- 8 Divine Violence? Radical Ethics and Politics of Nonviolence.- 9 Rorty and Irigaray: On a Culture of Love and Peace.- PART IV: the Return of the Breath.- 10 Breath of Silence.- 11 Ethics of Breath and the Atmosphere of Politics.- 12 Conclusion.- Index nominum.
Philosophy has too often cut off metaphysical thought from this living, breathing world with its animal and female bodies, just as religious traditions have repressed the breathing flesh in favour of calcified word. The re-introduction of breath into philosophy and theology draws our awareness back to the body, to respect for the other, and to nature, making awareness of the breath essential for an embodied ethics of difference in our globalized, ecological age. These themes are addressed by an international team of scholars, including Luce Irigaray.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
1. Towards Breathing with Luce Irigaray Lenart Škof & Emily A. Holmes
Part I: Spiritual Breathing
2. When Cherubim Touch: The Cleaving Feminine Wing of the Dual-Gendered Cherubim in 2 Chronicles (Divrei Hayammim 3: 11-12) Julie Kelso
3. The Gift of Breath: Toward a Maternal Pneumatology Emily A. Holmes
4. The Prayers We Breathe: Embodying the Gift of Life in the Maternal Feminine Eleanor Sanderson
Part II: Intercultural Breathing
5. Breath of Awakening: Nonduality, breathing and sexual difference Jean Marie Byrne
6. That Tender Discipline: Spacing, Structured Nothingness & Kumbhaka Antonia Pont
Part III: Natural Breathing
7. Towards a shared desire for sustainability: Rethinking community starting from different feminine approaches to nature Claudia Bruno
8. Breathing With the Natural World: Irigaray, environmental philosophy, and the alterity of nature Tomaž Grušovnik
9. Breathing with Animals: Irigaray’s Contribution to Animal Ethics Sara Štuva
Part IV: Contextual Breathing
10. All of My Work is Performance: Irigarayan Methods of Breath for Dance and Voice Shannon Wong Lerner
11. Subjectivity and Sexual Difference: New Figures of the Feminine in Irigaray and Cavarero Diane Perpich
12. Breathing the Political: A meditation on the preservation of life in the midst of war Elisha Foust
13. The Distant ('dis-tənt) Stillness that is 'Breth Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa
Part V: Conclusion
14. To Begin with Breathing Anew Luce Irigaray
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of Pragmatism
Chapter 1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural Philosophy
Chapter 2: Dewey and Intercultural Philosophy
Chapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards an Ethical Criterion for Democracy
Chapter 4: Rorty and the Future of Intercultural Philosophy
Part II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of Pragmatism
Chapter 5: Schopenhauer and American Pragmatism
Chapter 6: On Rortya's Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 7: On Unger and Irigaray
Chapter 8: Unger vs. Žižek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory Politics
Conclusion
“Using matrixiality as a key concept, Lenart Škof offers an ethical horizon through new insights into Antigone and her genealogical ‘sisters,’ daringly comparing Antigone’s task with Jesus’s redemptory mission. The matrixial core of love, reaching the ontological margins of birth and death and inaugurating a matrixial covenant, is the heart of this original conceptualization of an ethical core in the bridging between mythology and theology for our contemporary humanity.” — Bracha L. Ettinger, author of The Matrixial Borderspace and Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics
As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with human life and experience. Various dimensions of the respiratory world are referred to as “atmospheres” that encircle and connect human existence, coexistence, and the world.
Drawing from a number of traditions of breathing, including from Indian and East Asian religion and philosophy, the book considers breath in relation to ontological, hermeneutical, phenomenological, ethical, and aesthetic concerns in philosophy. The wide-ranging topics include poetry, theater, environmental issues and health, feminism, and media studies. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6557-atmospheres-of-breathing.aspx
The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.
TOC:
Tomaž Grušovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Škof
Introduction
Part I: Bordering Topologies
Chapter 1: Edward S. Casey
Moving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies
Chapter 2: Mary Watkins
From Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-Neighbor
Chapter 3: Eduardo Mendieta
Lethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological Dispositifs
Chapter 4: Helena Motoh
Borders in Between—The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History
Part II: Debordering Praxes
Chapter 5: Victor Forte
Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World
Chapter 6: Mary Leonard
Borders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and Flow
Chapter 7: Reingard Spannring
The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
Chapter 8: Tomaž Grušovnik
Debordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality
Part III: Worlding Hospitableness
Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd Giesen
Debordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of Hospitableness
Chapter 10: Petri BerndtsonCultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of Hospitality
Chapter 11: Lenart Škof
Lamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of Hospitality
Chapter 12: Shé Hawke
Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects—Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality
Inhaltsübersicht:
• ERSTER TEIL: Von mesokosmischen Ritualen: drei Steigerungen
1 Den mesokosmischen Ritualen in den Veden entgegen
2 Schelling, oder aus dem Abgrund der Ethik
3 Ein neuer Weg der Geste: G.H. Mead
• ZWEITER TEIL: Zwei Variationen zu den Elementen Wasser und Luft
4 Feuerbachs Pneumatische Wasserheilkunde
5 Atem und Sein bei Heidegger
• DRITTER TEIL: Rückkehr des Atems
6 Ethik des Atems – Derrida, Lévinas, Irigaray
7 Atem der Stille
Table of Contents
1 Introduction.- Part I: On Mesocosmic Rituals: Three Accelerations.- 2 Towards Mesocosmic Rituals in the Vedas.- 3 Schelling, or From the Abyss of Ethics.- 4 A New Way of Gesture (G. H. Mead).- PART II: Two Intermediate Variations on the Elements of Water and Air.- 5 Feuerbach’s “Pneumatische Wasserheilkunde”.- 6 Heidegger’s Hölderlinian Breath.- Part III: Communities of Breathing, Communities of Peace.- 7 Ethics of Breath: Derrida, Lévinas and Irigaray.- 8 Divine Violence? Radical Ethics and Politics of Nonviolence.- 9 Rorty and Irigaray: On a Culture of Love and Peace.- PART IV: the Return of the Breath.- 10 Breath of Silence.- 11 Ethics of Breath and the Atmosphere of Politics.- 12 Conclusion.- Index nominum.
Philosophy has too often cut off metaphysical thought from this living, breathing world with its animal and female bodies, just as religious traditions have repressed the breathing flesh in favour of calcified word. The re-introduction of breath into philosophy and theology draws our awareness back to the body, to respect for the other, and to nature, making awareness of the breath essential for an embodied ethics of difference in our globalized, ecological age. These themes are addressed by an international team of scholars, including Luce Irigaray.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
1. Towards Breathing with Luce Irigaray Lenart Škof & Emily A. Holmes
Part I: Spiritual Breathing
2. When Cherubim Touch: The Cleaving Feminine Wing of the Dual-Gendered Cherubim in 2 Chronicles (Divrei Hayammim 3: 11-12) Julie Kelso
3. The Gift of Breath: Toward a Maternal Pneumatology Emily A. Holmes
4. The Prayers We Breathe: Embodying the Gift of Life in the Maternal Feminine Eleanor Sanderson
Part II: Intercultural Breathing
5. Breath of Awakening: Nonduality, breathing and sexual difference Jean Marie Byrne
6. That Tender Discipline: Spacing, Structured Nothingness & Kumbhaka Antonia Pont
Part III: Natural Breathing
7. Towards a shared desire for sustainability: Rethinking community starting from different feminine approaches to nature Claudia Bruno
8. Breathing With the Natural World: Irigaray, environmental philosophy, and the alterity of nature Tomaž Grušovnik
9. Breathing with Animals: Irigaray’s Contribution to Animal Ethics Sara Štuva
Part IV: Contextual Breathing
10. All of My Work is Performance: Irigarayan Methods of Breath for Dance and Voice Shannon Wong Lerner
11. Subjectivity and Sexual Difference: New Figures of the Feminine in Irigaray and Cavarero Diane Perpich
12. Breathing the Political: A meditation on the preservation of life in the midst of war Elisha Foust
13. The Distant ('dis-tənt) Stillness that is 'Breth Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa
Part V: Conclusion
14. To Begin with Breathing Anew Luce Irigaray
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of Pragmatism
Chapter 1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural Philosophy
Chapter 2: Dewey and Intercultural Philosophy
Chapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards an Ethical Criterion for Democracy
Chapter 4: Rorty and the Future of Intercultural Philosophy
Part II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of Pragmatism
Chapter 5: Schopenhauer and American Pragmatism
Chapter 6: On Rortya's Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 7: On Unger and Irigaray
Chapter 8: Unger vs. Žižek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory Politics
Conclusion
Drugi del obravnava teorijo monoteizma Jana Assmanna in teorijo prvotnega monoteizma Wilhelma Schmidta. Trdimo, da so bile prav s Schmidtovo teorijo domorodne religije prvič v zgodovini teologije sprejete kot partnerice v dialogu. Na podlagi tega predstavljamo specifično versko okolje slovenske avtohtone religije, imenovane “staroverstvo”, kot elementarno religijo in teologijo narave. V tretjem delu predstavljamo svojo izvirno filozofsko-teološko interpretacijo elementov tega izročila v luči sodobnih teorij procesne filozofije, kvantnega mišljenja v teologiji (tj. prepletenosti) in horizontalne transcendence v naravni religiji.
V zadnjem delu obravnavamo možnost prihodnje postkrščanske in postreligiozne dobe, kot temelji na nauku “tretjega veka” Amalrika iz Bene in okoljsko utemeljenih naukih slovenskega izročila “staroverstva”.
Babylonian Talmud, and later reshaped and reformulated by Christian theologians
Joachim of Fiore, Amalric of Bène, and finally by Luce Irigaray. In the first part, we
start with the idea of the three eras. This is followed by a critical approach to
Sloterdijk’s You must change your life in which religion is substituted by the
anthropotechnics. We argue that even in these secular times, the salvation history still
remains unfulfilled and that our world is in need of a new, post-Christian materially
spiritual narrative. The second part is entirely dedicated to Amalricians and their
teachings. Also by tackling strong Islamic influences, we try to find a new opening
towards the post-Christian era beyond the mentioned anthropotechnics/atheism divide.
In the third part, the Age of the Spirit is approached and defined as a future messianicutopian
era in which a hidden and forgotten inner spiritual core will be revealed to us
and in which humanity will give itself a gift of becoming spiritually transformed and
divinized.
The respiratory philosophy as presented and articulated at this conference deals with our relationships with the atmospheres of breathing and air. “Breath” might seem like a peculiar project, or at the very least disconnected from the way in which most European philosophy has understood itself and its goals. But the “forgetting of air and breathing” (Irigaray) in European philosophical discourse is by itself one of the deepest, unacknowledged tensions, shaping its unfortunate outlook on the world. A new respiratory philosophy has the double merit of decolonizing the philosophical curriculum through an inclusion of non-European sources and insights, and of revealing how such “breathing” is a fundamental (even if erased) element of its own history. The potential of such a paradigm shift bears far-reaching consequences for the areas of ontology, ethics, poetics, politics, environment, spirituality, and health – as fields being in the forefront of this new respiratory paradigm.
to elaborate on listening as an ethical sense.
• the role of the body, being at the threshold between our subjectivities and subjective identities and various intersubjective spaces in ontology, epistemology an ethics;
• the epistemological and existential borders, such as between voice and silence, power and disability, activity and passivity, freedom and constraint, past and future, etc.;
• borders as inscribed in our social spaces and defined by the economic and/or social (in)justice(s), especially in the issues of gender/sexuality and race, as well as borders between “Human/Animal” and “Technology/Nature”;
• the role of geographical borders that shape/limit/constitute our everyday lives, such as ancient city gates, national borders and future cosmopolitan transnational debordered places/spaces.
Papers are welcome from the fields of philosophy, religion, psychoanalysis, ethics, cultural studies, gender studies, political economy, and political geography.
Please send your abstracts (150–200 words, with personal information and institutional affiliation) by February 1, 2016 to: [email protected]. Lectures should be intended for a 20-minute presentation. The conference will be held in English. Notification of acceptance will be given by March 1, 2016. All accepted abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts available at the conference.
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, focuses on questions of listening and polyphony as unifying concepts to discover overlapping horizons between philosophical insights and aesthetical experience. Listening could be studied as an openness to others, a gesture, and an activity. With the mutual coexistence of one’s own and surrounding environments, polyphony provides new opportunities for transdisciplinarity, starting in philosophy, expanding through aesthetics and the arts, and insinuating into ethics, anthropology, and sociality.
What is respiratory philosophy? I introduced this notion of “respiratory philosophy” in my text “The Inspiration and the Expiration of Being” (Thinking in Dialogue with Humanities, Zeta Books, 2010). Now eight years later a new anthology titled Atmospheres of Breathing (edited by Lenart Škof and Petri Berndtson, SUNY Press, 2018) brings this notion of respiratory philosophy back into philosophical and academic discourse. This brand new book has just come out in April. Respiratory philosophy is philosophy which thinks, examines and experiences all phenomena and all questions of philosophy and of life in general within the atmospheres of breathing. This means that in respiratory philosophy a person always looks at the world in collaboration with the breath. One thinks always with the breath or according to the breath. Respiratory philosophy, thus, tries to never forget breathing as it explores the world in a philosophical manner. It is based on the respiratory difference in thinking. This respiratory difference means that there is a difference of thinking between the thinking that forgets the breath and the thinking that remembers and cultivates the breath. It is a difference between being unaware of breathing and being aware of breathing and a difference between breathless thinking and breathful thinking. Each and everyone of us is faced with this question of the respiratory difference in our thinking with a perpetual choice between unconscious breathing and conscious breathing each and every moment of our life with each and every breath we take. Whatever we do, say, think and are faced with it can be thought and encountered within the atmosphere of cultivation of breathing as well as within the atmosphere of forgetting of breathing. This constant choice between the two makes a big difference in thinking and in life. Whatever we choose it is important to become aware of that always already all our thinking and action takes place within the atmosphere of breathing whether we are conscious or not conscious of it.
Continue Reading: https://lifeofbreath.org/2018/05/respiratory-philosophy/
During this two-day symposium, the invited scholars will explore and question the ways in which religion or secularism are (said to be) relevant for rethinking human-environment and human-machine relationships. The speakers are approaching the topic from notably different disciplinary angles (philosophy, theology, literary studies and history of ideas), which will enable a unique cross-disciplinary conversation.
Contributors:
John Durham Peters (Yale University)
Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire)
Todd Weir (University of Groningen)
Carool Kersten (King’s College London/SRC Koper)
Noreen Herzfeld (St. John’s University in Minnesota/SRC Koper)
Lenart Škof (SRC Koper/AMEU ISH)
Polona Tratnik (New University/IRRIS)
Nadja Furlan Štante (SRC Koper)
Gorazd Andrejč (University of Groningen/SRC Koper)
The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS)
Lundqvist Room - Adriatico Guesthouse, Strada Costiera 11, Trieste
The MED-HUB project is organising this workshop with the aim of mapping the relevant knowledge and discussing latest research results in terms of values and religion throughout the EURO-MED region, with special focus on contemporary theories and practices of interreligious dialogues in the region. The purpose of the workshop is that by creating a community of scholars, teachers and other relevant stakeholders (NGOs, associations, etc.) we will be able to suggest new ways of how to teach future Euro-Mediterranean studies in the field of interreligious dialogue and education.
The topics addressed will be:
- Current theories and practices of interreligious dialogue and related kinds of intercultural communication
- Values and paths of interreligious dialogues in the era of (in)security and fear
- Addressing the limitations and recent cultural criticisms of interreligious dialogue
- Particularities of the history and present situation of interreligious relations in the Euro-Mediterranean and its relevancy for the future of interreligious relationships
- The importance of the common values for intercultural negotiation and education, in the context of religious and worldview differences in the Euro-Mediterranean region
- Educational aspects: ways towards teaching youth a tolerant dialogue between cultures, values and religions
- Intercultural dialogue within the framework of changing political paradigms and new connectivities
- Proposal for the »Mediterranean Nathan chair on interreligious education« to be jointly installed in Trieste & Piran