Topic: Education as a provocation. About dealing with thinking.

When: 16.11.2021, 5 pm

Where: Lichtenberg-Haus, Dieburger Straße 241

Konrad Paul Liessmann, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, has distinguished himself through a series of remarkable publications that consistently transcend the boundaries of his own discipline—most recently, in collaboration with the writer Michael Köhlmeier, through *Mythologisch-philosophische Verführungen* (2016) and *Mythologisch-philosophische Verdammungen* (2019). Following in the footsteps of Nietzsche, he explored the nature of “midnight temptations” in *Mitternächtliche Versuchungen* (2021). In his book *Was nun?*, published in 2025, he outlines a “philosophy of crisis.”

His FiF Lecture took ideas from his book Education as a provocation (2017) asking how to deal with thinking. In this context, there was also an opportunity to reflect on issues brought up in the Corona pandemic.