Jana Mader, Tatiana Shchyttsova with Andrew Huddleston 'Choosing a Mother Tongue'

Andrew Huddleston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he is co-Director of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy. He studied as an undergraduate at Brown and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and did his PhD at Princeton under the supervision of Alexander Nehamas. Huddleston previously taught at Exeter College, Oxford and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He specializes in 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics. His book Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture (2019) was published by Oxford University Press, and he is presently at work on a book tentatively titled Art’s Highest Calling: The Religion of Art in a Secular Age.
Jana Mader is the Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Before coming to Bard, she taught at the University of North Carolina and at Juilliard. She received my doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Tatiana Shchyttsova, is professor of Philosophy at the Department of Social Sciences and Academic Director of Center for Philosophical Anthropology, at the European Humanities University, Vilnius. She is also Editor-in-chief of the Journal for philosophy and cultural studies Topos. Here in an interview with Eva Schwarz, philosopher and Director of the Centre for practical knowledge at Södertörn University, on the present situation in Belarus on the role of philosophy in times of revolution and change.
This video was filmed live at the Alpine Fellowship 2024 Symposium in Tuscany, Italy.
The event was held in partnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.