Monthly Archives: December 2008
Continental Philosophy Review: Volume 41, Number 4, December 2008
TOC The ego, the Other and the primal fact — Toru Tani Husserl’s transcendental philosophy and the critique of naturalism — Dermot Moran Some differences between Kant’s and Husserl’s conceptions… Read more
Happy New Year
As you make your wishes for the new year, remember Lacan (via Kevin Spacey): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyqVvMAp9Bo[/youtube] (h/t: the one and only Peter)
CFP: Religion and Popular Culture
Call for Submissions Religion and Popular Culture Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Deadline: 15 May 2009 At a time when many in the U.S. and around the world encounter religion… Read more
Krisis 2008, Issue 3
This year it is exactly 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Krisis’ new issue is therefore dedicated to philosophy and human… Read more
NIETZSCHE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
The British Society for Phenomenology NIETZSCHE AND PHENOMENOLOGY St Hilda’s College, Oxford, April 3rd – 5th 2009 Speakers Ullrich Haase (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘History: Heidegger on Nietzsche’s 2nd Untimely Meditation’… Read more
CFP: Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy
Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy La société canadienne de philosophie continentale The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its annual conference on October 15 – 17, 2009, at King’s… Read more
Say What? Electric Touch on not using Sartre
Standing outside a restaurant at lunch time, the black-clad members of Electric Touch look like a rock band. And onstage the Austin-based band’s members move around like classic rockers, spindly… Read more
Nancy texts
The Experience of Freedom http://www.mediafire.com/?5cym1ntnoce Hegel, The Restlessness of the Negative http://www.mediafire.com/?mxi2mgwpjjb via ren yellam
Book Review: Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts
Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts could be called a brief “guide for the perplexed.” The perplexed include scholars in many disciplines who encounter Adorno’s ideas. They also include a larger public… Read more
European Journal of Political Theory 1 January 2009; Vol. 8, No. 1: On Recognition
TOC: Introduction: Recognition: Philosophy and Politics — Cillian McBride and Jonathan Seglow Recognition, Needs and Wrongness: Two Approaches — Arto Laitinen A Vital Human Need: Recognition as Inclusion in Personhood… Read more
Inside/Outside :An interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference hosted by the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University April 2nd and 3rd, 2009 Keynote Speakers: Espen Hammer (University of Oslo/Essex) and Terry… Read more
“Critchley’s Violent Thoughts About Slavoj Zizek” – by Simon Critchley
Link (h/t: Marcus Leis Allion)
Call for Papers Boston College Philosophy Department 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference On Education March 20-21 2009 Plato gave us a remarkable image: through the process of education, the student… Read more
Say What? Plaxico the existentialist
It has taken a few days to realize what has been nagging at me about Plaxico Burress’ tragic situation. … That was it! High school ninth grade English class, when… Read more
CFP California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race
The 6th Annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race October 2-3, 2009 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE Keynote Speaker: Charles Mills, Northwestern University Call for Papers The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race… Read more