Vorträge und Lesungen
Deranged Habits
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- Mo, 4. Mai 2026, 18:00 Uhr
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Freiburg
Horst-Weitzmann-Hörsaal (KG I, Hörsaal 1098)
PD Dr. Federica Gregoratto (Universität Luzern):
Deranged Habits: A Hegelian Critical Theory of Depression
In the talk, I explore the phenomenon of depression as both a personal, individual and as a collective, social condition. Against the backdrop of its increasing prevalence and wide-spread diagnosis - what some have called an 'epidemic of depression' - I move from the conviction that this form of mental and bodily suffering might be considered as a key category for grasping a lot of what goes wrong in our world. As such, conceptualizing depression can play an important function for critical theory today. G.W.F. Hegel's social philosophy, and in particular his habit ontology, offers, I argue, a fruitful conceptual framework for this undertaking. The talk proceeds as follows: First, I illustrate Hegel's own conception of Verrücktheit, derangement. Hegel distinguishes different forms or figures of bodily and mental suffering, including a type of illness that we can take as very similar to what we today refer to as depression. In a next step, I ex-pound on Hegel's habit ontology, which he introduces, in the Anthropology, as a way out of states of derangement, and as a bodily, material basis for freedom. I then sketch out my own habit-based conception of depression as a combination of disruption of habits and totalization of habits, or 'total habituation'. I conclude that depression is both a subjective and objective (or social) condition, which can be described as concrete unfreedom, or homelessness.
Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache in der Reihe "Politische Theorien vermeidbaren Leids" des Colloquium politicum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie am Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik. Organisiert von Dominik Buhl M.Sc., M.A.
Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/sose%2026%20reihen Quelle: Veranstalter
Deranged Habits: A Hegelian Critical Theory of Depression
In the talk, I explore the phenomenon of depression as both a personal, individual and as a collective, social condition. Against the backdrop of its increasing prevalence and wide-spread diagnosis - what some have called an 'epidemic of depression' - I move from the conviction that this form of mental and bodily suffering might be considered as a key category for grasping a lot of what goes wrong in our world. As such, conceptualizing depression can play an important function for critical theory today. G.W.F. Hegel's social philosophy, and in particular his habit ontology, offers, I argue, a fruitful conceptual framework for this undertaking. The talk proceeds as follows: First, I illustrate Hegel's own conception of Verrücktheit, derangement. Hegel distinguishes different forms or figures of bodily and mental suffering, including a type of illness that we can take as very similar to what we today refer to as depression. In a next step, I ex-pound on Hegel's habit ontology, which he introduces, in the Anthropology, as a way out of states of derangement, and as a bodily, material basis for freedom. I then sketch out my own habit-based conception of depression as a combination of disruption of habits and totalization of habits, or 'total habituation'. I conclude that depression is both a subjective and objective (or social) condition, which can be described as concrete unfreedom, or homelessness.
Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache in der Reihe "Politische Theorien vermeidbaren Leids" des Colloquium politicum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie am Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik. Organisiert von Dominik Buhl M.Sc., M.A.
Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/sose%2026%20reihen Quelle: Veranstalter
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