22/05/2024 11:00 - 16:30

HALL: FATESI - STURZO

Proponent: Kirschner M.

Chair: Kirschner M.

Speaker: Kirschner M., Nebieridze M., Riedenauer M., Tautz S., Veit J., Viertbauer K.

Times of crisis are associated with experiences of rupture and the need for an often radical transformation, which affect both the reality of life itself and the cognitive concepts and operational images with which we orientate ourselves in historical reality. This leads to fundamental conflicts and polarisations that affect not only the description and positioning of topics, but also the epistemological assumptions, the methodological approach and the "framing" of facts. Such conflicts come to a head in the religious field in particular, insofar as it is there where things are negotiated and confessed that are fundamental and imperative: the basis and meaning of reality, the understanding of man, the legitimisation of power, ultimate convictions, ideological conflicts and dealing with pluralism.


The panel will discuss "paradigms of transformation" in a threefold sense: 1) looking at paradigm shifts in the context of crises and ruptures; 2) addressing the question in which paradigm and on what paradigmatic events such "transformation" can be conceived and 3) considering what significance the category of "paradigm shift" has in this context.