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• Erik Ringmar

The workshop will bring together a range of scholars from International Relations, political and social theory, philosophy and human geography in order to develop a multidisciplinary engagement with Martin Heidegger’s work and to explore its relevance for contemporary International Studies.

Globalization is one of the most contested and (ab)used concepts of our time. Whether one interprets it as a ‘collective illusion’ or as the final stage of capitalism, as ‘uncontrollable multitude’ or as a radical opening of new spaces of freedom, the Global Age represents the conceptual and existential background of our being-in-the-world. But what lies behind the essence of this process? What mode of human existence is brought about by the age of technology and ‘global mobilization’? And is it possible to attempt a unitary interpretation of this age that presents itself as both total and pluralistic?