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‘After Wollheim’ is the third phase of the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project.
The first two phases of the Wollheim Centenary Project (2023-2025) were intended to bring Richard Wollheim’s intrepid exploration of the relation of mind and body into prominence in philosophy, and to revisit and revise its cultural profile as an original application of psychoanalysis to art theory. Seen through these dual perspectives, what emerged as new about Wollheim’s synthesis of mind, art and psychoanalysis was not an array of new concepts, nor a new theory, but a re-basing of already established theory and concepts. In this new and different configuration, Wollheim in his own critique of philosophy can be aligned with contemporary colleagues, those with whom he shared a view of philosophy as one among other humanistic disciplines. Wollheim’s own contribution nevertheless goes well beyond recommending art and psychoanalysis to philosophy as relevant cultural activities to be taken together. A core theme in his thought – the relation of art and psychoanalysis – opens up a new avenue for investigating how they can be understood as working together. ‘After Wollheim’, the successor to the Centenary Project, will explore this theme as part of Wollheim’s legacy.
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The After Wollheim project is convened by Louise Braddock and Niall Gildea.
After Wollheim: The Richard Wollheim Centenary Project, phase 3 