Paradoxically, the current climatic, political and geopolitical situation, which confronts us with instability and forces us to question many certainties, offers the right moment to speak of hope. This is the argument put forward by philosopher Corine Pelluchon in her lecture, in which she understands hope as the ability to see the future in the present.

Corine Pelluchon is a philosopher and professor at Gustave-Eiffel University near Paris. Her main areas of interest are animal and environmental ethics, political philosophy, and phenomenology. She has published twenty books, including Les Lumières à l’âge du vivant (Seuil 2021), Manifeste animaliste. Politiser la cause animale (Alma 2017), L’espérance, ou la traversée de l’impossible (Payot/Rivage 2023), Pour comprendre Levinas. Un philosophe pour notre temps (Seuil 2020). These books are available in German translation. Her two latest books, which will be published in German by C.H. Beck in 2026 and 2027, are La démocratie sans emprise ou la puissance du féminin (Rivages 2025) and L’être et la mer. Pour un existentialisme écologique. Her work was awarded the Günther Anders Prize for Critical Thinking in 2020 and the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize in 2025.

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Marcel Robischon, Professor of Agricultural Ecology and tHead of the Division of Agricultural Ecology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The lecture will be delivered in German.

The event is addressed to all. 

Further information: https://www.iri-thesys.org/outreach/events/?event_id1-12193