Art and Sacrifice is the paper on the hermeneutics of art and sacrifice I presented for the Woolf University Series Post-Kantian Philosophy and delivered on the 29th of March, 2023. This paper includes a theoretical background and an illustration of "Down from the Tree" by the Austrian-American artist Daniel Domig.

The project “The Stature of Waiting” by the American-Austrian artist Daniel Domig gave me a unique opportunity to compose a text which has the ambition to provide a philosophical theory of “what happens when the artist creates”. Daniel and I cooperate on many other projects in which he offers his paintings for my texts. This time, the interaction changed, and I created a text based on his paintings…

Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd will reflect on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes).