I happened to catch sight of this again recently, but Ryerson has up some great talks (click, too, on the history section) on Kant and evil, Levinas, deconstruction and the animal, and so forth, by great speakers.
Month: December 2017
Markus Gabriel interviewed
At The Ransom Note (new to me, too). It’s definitely not your typical academic interview (and it was a pleasure seeing Markus in action last weekend at a conference in Munich).
Society for Italian Philosophy CFP
The conference, to be held at RIT (Rochester, NY) March 23-5, 2018, has a CFP here. Abstracts due January 5.
Block Seminar in Augsburg, Germany, Today and Tomorrow (9:00-17:00)
The final title for the topic is Heidegger and Arendt on World, Nature, and “Earth Alienation.” I’m putting this here to refer students, but also for those interested. I’ll put up the lecture notes I typed up once I can give them at least something of an edit.
Here are the readings, then the resources I provided the students. (I do have recorded podcasts on the two major readings already, listed below):
A. Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik (Wintersemester 1929/30): § 1-8, 16-18, 39-71, 74-6.
Key issues:
1. What is philosophy?
2. How does this relate to the key question: what is the world (Was ist die Welt?).
3. How does this relate to the key question: what is nature? Or more properly: what is physis? (Was ist die physis?)
3a. Heidegger translates physis not just as Waschen as normally suggested in the secondary literature, but more originally as Walten. We will go over the semantic resonances of the term in German as well as what this could mean.
4. Different relations to the world of humans/animals/rocks.
B. Arendt, The Human Condition (originally published in English; some reference to the German edition): § 1 and 6. § 2 and 5 would be helpful.
1. What are the three aspects of the vita activa of The Human Condition?
2. What are the threats Arendt finds to The Human Condition?
3. What does Arendt mean by world alienation and therefore a world?
4. What does Arendt mean by earth alienation?
5. Some discussion around the relation between the last chapter and Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology.
Resources:
1. Dorothea Frede, “The Question of Being: Heidegger’s Project,” from Cambridge Companion to Heidegger.
2. I. Thompson, “What is Ontotheology?”
3. Stuart Elden, “Heidegger’s Animals,” Continental Philosophy Review (2006) 39: 273–291.
4. My recorded lecture overview of the 1929/30 course.
5. My podcast overview of the whole of The Human Condition is here.
6. BBC In these Times, Hannah Arendt.
7. Paul Voice, “Labor, Work, Action,” in Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts.
8. Siobhan Kattago, “Hannah Arendt on the World,” in Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts.
The Last Interview of Nicos Poulantzas
Here at Legal Form with a helpful introduction. Poulantzas died just nine days before its original publication on 12 Oct., 1979, in the Italian communist journal, Rinascita.
Some recent NDPR notable reviews
On Ed Casey, Whitehead, new materialisms, etc.:
EDWARD S. CASEY
The World on Edge
Indiana University Press
Reviewed byFred Evans, Duquesne University
2017.12.05
PAUL MOSER
The God Relationship: The Ethics for Inquiry about the Divine
Cambridge University Press
Reviewed byTrent Dougherty, Baylor University
2017.12.04
RANDALL E. AUXIER AND GARY L. HERSTEIN
The Quantum of Explanation: Whitehead’s Radical Empiricism
Routledge
Reviewed byGeorge Lucas, U.S. Naval Academy
SARAH ELLENZWEIG AND JOHN H. ZAMMITO (EDS.)
The New Politics of Materialism: History, Philosophy, Science
Routledge
Reviewed byJohn Protevi, Louisiana State University
2017.12.01
MICHAEL ALLEN GILLESPIE
Nietzsche’s Final Teaching
University of Chicago Press
Reviewed byRobin Small, The University of Melbourne
2017.11.29
If you wanted an overview of Accelarationism
With lots of silly/unhelpful acronyms, then this is the post for you.
Where I’ll be tomorrow
Two days here in Munich on Continental Realisms, with a good range of thinkers:
Speakers
Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut)
Dominik Finkelde (Munich School of Philosophy)
Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn)
Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England)
Peter Gratton (Memorial University)
Johannes Hübner (University of Halle)
Andrea Kern (University of Leipzig)
Anton Friedrich Koch (University of Heidelberg) Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico)
Sebastian Rödl (University of Leipzig)
Dieter Sturma (University of Bonn)
Next Tuesday, I’ll be a half hour away in Augsburg giving a lecture Tuesday evening, then later a block seminar on Heidegger/Arendt on world and nature.
PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR 