Professor Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA will be delivering a seminar titled “The Reversibilty of Landscapes"

Abstract:

Environmental philosophy has been burdened with perspectives that have failed to afford access to the actual experience of living in a landscape, and dualist and nondualist inquiries alike are plagued by
anthropocentrisms that seem impossible to escape. Here I explore how we can investigate the relation of humans and landscapes in ways that preserve what occurs there, and begin to open those phenomena to rigorous scrutiny. To this end, resources are drawn and synthesized from the thinking of Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Georg Simmel, Heidegger, and the author’s anthropological field research about nature, scientific praxis, human identity, and anonymity.

About the Speaker:

Kenneth Liberman is Hans Christian Anderson Visiting Professor at Southern Denmark University,Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, and Visiting Professor at Sera Jey Monastic University in India. He was Fulbright Senior Professor at the University of Mysore. He has authored
seventy academic articles and eight books, including Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture (Rowman & Littlefield), The Panchen Lama’s Debate Between Wisdom and the Reifying Habit (Motilal Banarsidass), and More Studies in Ethnomethodology (SUNY Press), which won the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Book Award. His specialization is social phenomenology and ethnomethodology.