Special issue: Affectivity and intersubjectivity: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

Guest editor’s introduction — Brady Thomas Heiner
The role of the lived-body in feeling — Bernhard Waldenfels
Interkinaesthetic affectivity: a phenomenological approach — Elizabeth A. Behnke
Intersubjectivity in perception — Shaun Gallagher
A proposal for genetically modifying the project of “naturalizing” phenomenology — Brady Thomas Heiner, Kyle Powys Whyte
The phenomenological role of affect in the Capgras delusion — Matthew Ratcliffe
Feeling good vibrations in dialogical relations — Beata Stawarska
The rainbow of emotions: at the crossroads of neurobiology and phenomenology — Natalie Depraz

Brian Leiter has posted an article by Sean Kelly on the renewed interest in phenomenology.

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A review of Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect in and Beyond Psychoanalysis (Cultural Studies Series)

This interesting book could be seen as a collection of eleven really insightful (and of course, potentially enriching) essays that are mainly concerned with the different possible aspects of the trauma. It is not just another theory of trauma. It is also far from being jusst a collection of various theories of the trauma. It is more a collection of eleventh different theoretical attempts to theorize trauma. To make it discursively present. To make it (paradoxically) theoretic. Grounded in history, philosophy and (broadly speaking) culture, this book embraces important philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Levinas s well as theorist such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Deleuze. In this book there is also a lot of psychoanalysis, and even politics.

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Browsing the French edition

A visiting legal ethicist talks to us about why a novella by Herman Melville, involving mutiny and an execution at sea, has become required reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, law and ethics.

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T H E P O S T / H U M A N C O N D I T I O N
Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP)
University of Auckland, Dec 3–5, 2008

What is it to be human? The advent of modern science, the industrial revolution, the rise of the modern nation-state, and the development of evolutionary theory conspired to bring about the collapse of traditional understandings of the human condition during the Enlightenment. But recently the modern and postmodern paradigms that emerged out of this period of philosophical upheaval have themselves been put to the test by an unprecedented constellation of phenomena: biotechnologies, globalization, the ecological crisis, and the virtualization of social relations, to name but a few.

How then are we to think about the human experience today? What language can we find for it? Indeed, what language would provide not only a descriptive but also the necessary critical perspective on the human condition in the contemporary context? Is the category of “the human” still viable, or should we now speak of “the post-human”? Are we better served by categories such as “animal” or “life”? Are the “de-centering” strategies of postmodernism to be further developed, or is it imperative, as some have maintained, to revive the concept of the “subject”? What is the status of the body and embodiment in an age of technological prosthesis and genetic manipulation? How is the social or “plural” character of human existence to be theorized in view of contemporary patterns and possibilities of familial, economic, and political interaction? What, if anything, has been contributed by the recent “post-secular turn” in philosophy to questions concerning the human condition? And finally, what, if anything, can be said by the philosopher about the “ends” of humanity today?

The ASCP 2008 Conference Committee invites proposals for papers exploring these questions or any others of relevance to contemporary philosophical debates concerning the (post-)human condition. Paper proposals in other areas of Continental Philosophy are also welcome.

Proposals are also encouraged for topical panels addressing the conference theme and for panels on books by Australasian philosophers.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Leonard Lawlor (Penn State)
Prof. Ewa Ziarek (SUNY Buffalo)
Prof. David Wills (SUNY Albany)
A/Prof. Nikolas Kompridis (Toronto)

CONFERENCE STREAMS (draft list)
Animality and Humanity
Human/Post-Human
Bare Life and Biopolitics
The Posthuman Body
Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Life
Phenomenology and Post-Phenomenology
Arendt and the Human Condition
Hegel, Desire, Subjectivity
Levinas and the Humanism of the Other
Humanism and Anti-Humanism
The Legacy of Existentialism
Comparative Philosophy
Philosophy & Literature
A Post-Human Aesthetics?
Richard Rorty in memoriam
Philosophy of the Future
The Human To-Come

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Deadline: Friday, 19 Sept Paper and panel proposals should be emailed to Dr Simone Drichel:
simone.drichel@stonebow.otago.ac.nz. Please include your name, paper title, an abstract (200 words max), plus up to 5 key words.
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Nancy, Jean-Luc, and Michael Syrotinski. “Les Iris.” Yale French Studies.81 (1992): 46-63. http://www.mediafire.com/?m0vjhrzyzbu

Nancy, Jean-Luc, and Paula Moddel. “Menstruum Universale (Literary Dissolution).” SubStance 6.21 (1978): 21-35. http://www.mediafire.com/?nxhgzyh01ch

Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Mundus Est Fabula.” MLN 93.4 (1978): 635-53. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?djnby2azpj0

Nancy, Jean-Luc, and Tracy B. Strong. “La Comparution /the Compearance: From the Existence Of “Communism” To the Community Of “Existence”.” Political Theory 20.3 (1992): 371-98. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jhwl3nvyena

Nancy, Jean-Luc, and Thomas C. Platt. “The Two Secrets of the Fetish.” Diacritics 31.2 (2001): 3-8. http://www.mediafire.com/?xzxcoyyjzjz

Nancy, Jean-Luc, and Richard Livingston. “The Unsacrificeable.” Yale French Studies.79 (1991): 20-38. http://www.mediafire.com/?d3djujmvwdo

Hall, Mirko M., and Jean-Luc Nancy. “The War of Monotheism: On the Inability of Civilization to Expand: The West Battles against Itself.” Cultural Critique.57 (2004): 104-07. http://www.mediafire.com/?mojc1tukim3

Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death.” MLN 102.4 (1987): 719-36. http://www.mediafire.com/?uvdnxzpy11k

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The International Merleau-Ponty Circle Conference, 2008: Time, Memory and the Self: Remembering Merleau-Ponty at 100, 18-20 September 2008, Ryerson University, Toronto [preliminary program]

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TIME, MEMORY, SELF:

REMEMBERING MERLEAU-PONTY AT 100

www.trentu.ca/philosophy/mpc2008

33^rd Annual Conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle;

Centenary Celebration of Merleau-Ponty

Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

September 18-20, 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Elizabeth Behnke  (Study Project for Phenomenology of the Body, USA)

Edward Casey  (Stony Brook University, USA)

Bernhard Waldenfels  (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Veronique Foti  (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Leonard Lawlor  (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

John O’Neill   (York University, Canada)

John Russon  (University of Guelph, Canada)

Hugh Silverman  (Stony Brook University, USA)

OTHER SPEAKERS:

Susan Bredlau (Northern Arizona Univ., USA); Annette Hilt (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany); Kirsten Jacobson (Univ. of Maine, USA); Galen Johnson (Univ. of Rhode Island, USA); Emma Jones (Univ. of Oregon, USA); Michael Kelly (Boston College, USA); Don Landes (Stony Brook Univ., USA); Scott Marratto (Univ. of King’s College, Canada); Glen Mazis (Pennsylvania State Univ. Harrisburg, USA); James Mensch (St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada); Ann Murphy (Fordham Univ., USA); Paul Qualtere-Burcher (Univ. of Oregon, USA); Gayle Salamon (Princeton Univ., USA); Fiona Utley (Univ. of New England, Australia); Gail Weiss (George Washington Univ., USA)

The full program is available at: http://www.trentu.ca/academic/philosophy/mpc2008/MPC2008%20Preliminary%20Program.pdf
Registration is now open (http://www.trentu.ca/academic/philosophy/mpc2008/registration.htm);  please note that the International Merleau-Ponty Circle has no membership fees, and new members are welcome.

To benefit from conference rates for hotels, rooms must be booked before August 17.  See the conference website for more details.  www.trentu.ca/philosophy/mpc2008

A Conference Poster (8.5” x 11”) is available; you are welcome to print and post it:

http://www.trentu.ca/academic/philosophy/mpc2008/MPC2008poster.pdf

Questions? Please contact the conference co-organizers:

Kym Maclaren (Ryerson University) kym.maclaren@ryerson.ca

David Morris (Concordia University) davimorr@alcor.concordia.ca

Adam Kotsko has published his notes on Agamben’s new book, Il Regno e la Gloria

Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought

A correspondence between Hannah Arendt and the theologian Hans-Jürgen Benedict (in German)

Foucault Live

What Schopenhauer taught Beckett