Transforming the Human

Transformation is one of the major buzzwords of the 21st century in society, culture, and science. Even if technological achievements such as digitalisation and artificial intelligence are driving forces in these processes, such developments affect a wide variety of areas and discourse in politics, religion, research, economy, ethics, art, and ecology. In this context, the question of the Conditio Humana is also being discussed anew from the ground up.  

Philosophy, theology, and art studies as established humanities disciplines, which are also practiced at the Catholic Private University of Linz, contribute significantly to the historical and cultural discourse on this topic. The research focus “Transforming the Human” aims to revive this tradition and investigate the question of the development and responsibility of “the human” in the context of contemporary transformation processes, both between the three disciplines and in exchange with other disciplines.  

Participants in the programme will analyse, discuss and historically contextualise current phenomena and developments and examine their preconditions, continuities, breaks with tradition, etc. In addition to critically analysing the objects of research, the project also aims to self-reflectively determine how such processes of transformation affect the humanities and how their potential for transformation can be harnessed.

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