Die Zukunft der Geisteswissenschaften nach ihrem Ende. Mit Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

In the organizer's words:

What do the humanities achieve - and what have they missed out on? Hardly anyone can answer this question as pointedly as Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht, one of the most productive humanities scholars of our time. In his memoir Sepp. Mein Leben auf Halbdistanz, the literary scholar and keen observer of the present, who has been teaching at Stanford for decades, looks back on over half a century of international life and thought: from bombed-out Würzburg to the Lycée Henri IV to Silicon Valley, from Michel Foucault to three sentences with Neymar. This rich intellectual life is also a history of the humanities themselves - their possibilities, their place in schools and universities and their significance for the future. What can they still say to the world? Do we need them more urgently than ever? Moderated by: Cai Werntgen