Abstract
The international conference "Leib und Literatur - philosophische Perspektiven" is beeing held on the 15th and 16th of June 2019 in Kiel, Germany. It is organized by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Institute of German and French Philosophy of Charles University.
The conference is dedicated to a philosophical examination of the relation inbetween the body and literature. It follows the conference "Philosophie und Literatur" organized by the same institutes in 2018 in Prague.
With a large variety of talks and presentation it is being put into focus the body as the material of writing, the body as being a writing and the writing as a body, the body as a topic of literature and philosophy and the literary and philosophical descriptions of the body, and also specific investigations on examples of the philosophy of the body within the example of texts in literature.