# LIFE at its Limits: Medicine, Literature, Philosophy

- Page: https://yondernite.com/esemeny/life-at-its-limits-medicine-literature-philosophy-2026-12-10
- Language: English
- Times are local: Europe/Budapest
- When: 2026-12-10 09:00 – until 2026-12-12 (UTC+01:00)
- Where: ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar, Budapest
- Type: Talks
- Organiser's page (tickets are sold there): https://allevents.in/budapest/life-at-its-limits-medicine-literature-philosophy/200030323537353

## About

International conference organized by the ELTE Department of English Studies. The conference aims to explore the limits and crossings between the incommensurable discourses of and on life and its limits in medicine, literature, and philosophy from the Romantic Age to the present. How has “life” been conceptualised, narrated, diagnosed, measured, aestheticised, politicised, and its notion contested across these domains? What happens when biological, philosophical, and literary understandings of life intersect — or fail to translate into one another? From Enlightenment vitalism and Romantic theories of organism and imagination to modern biopolitics, epidemiology, and posthuman thought, the concept of life has remained both foundational and unstable. Medical science has sought to define and preserve life, philosophy has interrogated its meaning and limits, and literature has explored its experiential, ethical, and narrative dimensions. Yet these discourses often remain partially incompatible, revealing tensions between scientific description, philosophical reflection, and narrative representation. We invite contributions that explore the limits and crossings between medical…

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