Contemplation 2015 - Kyoto Conference on Coleridge and Contemplation

While Plenary Speakers will each focus in their own ways on the theme of contemplation as found in and developed from Coleridge’s writings, participants are free to address more generally such topics as:
? poetry and contemplation
? poetic thinking as a general mode of human thought , or as it occurs in verse, as explored by, e.g., Holderlin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Yeats, Heidegger
? contemplation in philosophy / history of ideas, esp. in writers whose ideas feature in Coleridge’s work, such as Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Spinoza, Boehme, Kant, and Schelling
? the need / use / value of contemplation
? the role of contemplation in aesthetic engagement
? what is contemplation and does it need to be recovered / cultivated?
? are the Humanities becoming less contemplative as its researchers become more specialised?
? the places of silence and discourse in contemplation
? is meditation already contemplative or is it a preliminary to contemplation?
? Coleridge and idealism
? contemplative aesthetics, especially as related to Coleridge
? the 20th century saw a linguistic turn in philosophy, what might a contemplative turn involve?? meaning, value, and mind-independent Ideas