Marianna Koliová and Kamelia Spassova
Thursday, 14-15.30, 164 Seminarraum 1.2
Slavisches Institut, Weyertal 137
University of Cologne, Summer semester 2018
Self-Reflexivity in philosophy is the potential of the modern subjects to reflect upon their own premises with full awareness of the inevitable gaps and lacks in the self-consciousness. In literature it is the ability of work of art to refer to its own techniques, its own process of creation and its own fictional status. Thus self-reflexivity forms a certain meta-level of metaliterature, metafiction and metapoetics. The key visual metaphor for this meta-operation is the mirror within the fictional work, which generates a kind of double coded structure and produces the effect of mise en abyme. The master devices for self-reflexivity are figure out by Borges: the mirror, the text within a text; the contamination of reality and dream; time-travelling, and the Doppelgänger. The crucial philosophical concepts we will try to differentiate from self-reflexivity are: self-referentiality, recursion, reflection, autopoiesis.
In October 2016, students and teachers of our faculties will meet for a double conference “Reviving Visions: Artists and Scholars that connected East and West” in Cologne. Our students will meet on October 7 to present their discoveries—places, ideas, personalities, traditions and visions—that can help us to create a space of learning and scholarship that connects Eastern and Western traditions. They will present their findings and ideas to senior scholars of all three universities at Schloss Wahn on October 10 and 11.
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