Event: Culture and Art: Their Role in Human Life (The Department of Philosophy Research Seminars)
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Gateway Building (GW), Room 205
Speaker: Professor Imelda Chłodna-Błach
The point of departure for an analysis of the concepts of culture and art entails a clarification of the semantics of these concepts; this clarification will also take note of their etymology as well as their historical modifications.
The question still remains open as to what the philosophical understanding of culture and art is with particular reference to their role in human life. With this question in mind, it will therefore be useful to examine various fields of culture - science, art, morality and religion – since these domains express personal forms of human action.
A further and related question requires an analysis of the relation between the philosophical underpinnings of culture in relation to the way nature has been conceptualised given that the latter’s conceptualisation has been framed within a specific philosophical system as well as a number of non-philosophical subtexts.
Speaker's bionote
Imelda Chłodna-Błach, PhD, is assistant professor at the Chair of Philosophy of Culture and Art of the Catholic University of Lublin. Her scientific interests include issues related to the philosophy of culture and civilization, philosophy of education, art of rhetoric. Apart from teaching philosophy and rhetoric at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Department of Philosophy), she teaches rhetoric and cultural sciences at the Higher School of Social and Media Culture in Toruń (Department of Journalism, Political Science and Cultural Studies). She has authored many articles on the philosophy of education, philosophy of culture, philosophy of art, rhetoric. Her books in Polish include American education. Ways and wilderness (Lublin 2008) and From Paideia to High Culture. Philosophical and Anthropological Basis of the Dispute about Culture (Lublin 2016).
