RESPIRATORY PHILOSOPHY: A PARADIGM SHIFT

International conference held at the Grand Hotel Bernardin Convention center, in Portorož, Slovenia

June 18–21, 2023

Hosted by Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies & Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS), Kobe University

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.

Programme and organizing committee

Prof Dr Lenart Škof, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, and Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, AMEU, Slovenia

Assoc Prof Dr Dr Yuho Hisayama, Graduate School of Humanities and Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe University, Japan

Ass Prof Dr Magdalena Górska, Graduate Gender Studies Programme and Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Assoc Prof Dr Lorenzo Marinucci, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University and Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Japan

Dr Petri Berndtson, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia

Dr Maja Bjelica, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia

Dr Luka Trebežnik, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, and Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, AMEU, Slovenia