Participants:
Nathalie Barbosa de la Cadena (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Nicolas De Warren (Penn State University, US)
Saulius Geniusas (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Nataliia Satokhina (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Tatiana Shchyttsova (European Humanities University, Vilnius)
Michael Staudigl (University of Vienna, Austria)
Oleksiy Stovba (National Aerospace University, Kharkiv Aviation Institute, Ukraine)

Hosted by: Department of Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt
Convenor: Prof. Dr. Sophie Loidolt
Online Workshop via Zoom: login information and the discussed texts are sent after registration to philosophisches.institut@phil.tu-darmstadt.de

Abstract: What is the experience of law in war? Is it the absence, suspension, or silence of law in face of unknown violence and a constant state of exception? Or does law remain an experience of everydayness in human interaction and a promise against war? In legal theory, the relation between law and war is a long-standing topic, as is the normativity of law, which asserts its own domain of “ought” against a domain of “being.” But if we consider law “not as an object of our knowledge or technical domination, but as something that happens to us in the world” (Satokhina), i.e., from a phenomenological point of view, the intertwined dimensions of validity and facticity manifest themselves in the experience and existence of human beings who live together, in peace and war. The aim of the workshop is to describe, conceptualize, and analyze the structure and essence of these experiences in their “corporeal, liminal, concretely situated” (Stovba) and transcendent dimensions, between “world and worldlessness, infinity and totality, law and lawlessness” (Satokhina) and to ask how, from this phenomenological perspective, law relates to war.