CFP: Continental Philosophy of Religion Conference, Oxford
RELIGION, ATHEISM AND THE COMMUNITY OF REASON IN MODERNITY
Oxford University’s Second Annual Postgraduate Conference in Continental Philosophy of Religion
Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, 22nd September 2008
We invite contributions of 20 to 30 minute presentations from postgraduates (and those who have recently obtained their doctorate) for the above conference. Possible topics may include:
Contemporary Issues:
a.. The persistence of theological tropes in contemporary philosophy (apocalypses and utopias, for example)
b.. The relation between religious and secular ethics
c.. The role of emotion in philosophical accounts of the self and practical reasoning
d.. Cosmopolitanism and communitarianism
e.. The theological turn in recent phenomenology
Historical topics:
a.. The early modern project of demystification (Spinoza, les philosophes, Hume)
b.. The Spinoza controversy and the genesis of ‘philosophy of religion’ in German Idealism
c.. Rationalism and atheism in the reception of Hegel (Feuerbach, Strauss)
d.. The critique of religion in Nietzsche, Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis etc
e.. Polemics against (onto-)theology in French thought in the sixties and seventies (Deleuze, Kristeva and the early Derrida)
Please send abstracts of 500 words to godphil@googlemail.com by the deadline of 20th July 2008.
For more details, see: http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/news_and_events/RACRIM.pdf