Enthusiasm and History in the Kantian Perspective. Report of the Seventh Immanuel Kant International Summer School
Abstract
The Seventh Immanuel Kant International Summer School devoted to the themes of enthusiasm and history in Kantian philosophy was held in Kaliningrad from 28 July to 5 August 2025. Organised by the Academia Kantiana at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, the Petersburg Dialogue and the Sochi Dialogue Forums, it was addressed to budding scholars, i.e. undergraduate and post-graduate students and young doctors. The lectures of the School’s scientific supervisor, Vadim A. Chaly, and the discussions that followed covered topics ranging from methodological foundations of the work with Kant’s legacy to the context in which Kant formed his philosophy of history. This is also linked with the historical role of the emotions. These stem both from the characteristics of Kant’s concept of enthusiasm and from the applicability of this concept to the interpretation of some recent varieties of technological enthusiasm. Reviewed below are nineteen papers presented at the conference of young scholars.