1st International Egodocumental Network Conference
Vilnius University, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the University of Lodz, and the Egodocumental Research Group (https://egodocuments.umk.pl) organise an international conference focusing on research, development, and changing perceptions of egodocuments in the twenty-first century. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines to share their insights and to encourage interdisciplinary studies of egodocuments.
The conference will also be the first meeting of the International Egodocumental Network established in December 2023 by the Egodocumental Research Group (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Lodz) to unite scholars from different disciplines working on egodocuments. It provides a platform for discussion, collaboration, and exchange of information between the participants, as well as online research seminars organized twice a year. In this dimension, our conference continues two editions of the Scientific Symposium "Egodocuments, Life-Writing and Autobiographical Texts..." organized at NCU in Toruń in 2022 and 2024.
Keynote speakers
Dr. Nataliia Voloshkova
Kazimierz Wielki University and Oxford Brookes University
Prof. Leona Toker
Hebrew University and Shalem Academic College
Prof. François-Joseph Ruggiu
Sorbonne Université, CNRS and Oxford University
Jan Molina
University of Warsaw
Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Sovereignty and Nomos in the Light of his Diaries
The goal of the paper is to present Carl Schmitt’s diaries as an essential source for understanding his concept of sovereignty, including its relationship to the categories of space and nomos.
According to M. Tielke, Schmitt’s views were influenced by his reading of Julien Green’s psychoanalytical novels, including Schmitt’s favorite “The Leviathan”. The paper presents key concepts of Carl Schmitt as a spatial projection of his philosophical and theological preoccupations connected with embodiment and embodied desires as described in Schmitt’s diaries. The author of the paper claims that this interpretation can be established within the framework of Schmitt‘s own philosophical stance and may hold a key to a coherent interpretation of Schmitt’s multilayered legacy. Schmitt’s views on the relation between decision, nomos (in both meanings: nemein and basileus) and, as well as his ‘everyday practices’ and an important figure of the ‘melting floe’ present in his diary are interpreted in relation to his reading of Green’s novels supported by the analysis of Green’s own diary.
After pointing out the correlation between Schmitt’s decisionist theory of sovereignty and his diaries, the author confronts Schmitt’s theory with Mykolas Romeris’ fundamentally different concept of sovereignty and Romeris’ diaries.
