Monthly Archives: February 2009
Merleau-Ponty and the lived body
2008 is the centenary of the birth of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He was a friend of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and a man who wanted to… Read more
The Utopian
Harvard’s Political Theory magazine, The Utopian, is of interest to the readers of the site. This piece on Habermas is particularly good.
SEP: Franz Rosenzweig
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) ranks as one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the modern period. As a historian of philosophy, Rosenzweig played a brief but noteworthy role in the… Read more
Michel Henry
Michael Tweed has translated and posted five Michel Henry texts over on his site. Great contribution. Link
Inquiry An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Volume 52 Issue 1 2009
TOC The Pregnancy of the Real: A Phenomenological Defense of Experimental Realism, Pages 1 – 25 Author: Shannon Vallor Knowledge, Freedom and Willing: Hegel on Subjective Spirit, Pages 26 –… Read more
Silverman Center 2009 Phenomenology Conference
Phenomenology did not begin as a religious philosophy, but recently several prominent European phenomenologists have asked whether a coherent phenomenology of human experience must find its fulfillment in religion. Christian… Read more
CFP: 5th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian Conditions of Freedom
15th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian Conditions of Freedom Evian (Lake Geneva), France — July 12-18, 2009 Contact: Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Habelschwerdter Allee… Read more
Jobs: Canada Research Chair in Environment and Culture
Canada Research Chair in Environment and Culture The Department of Philosophy at Laurentian University invites applications for the position of a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environment and Culture… Read more
Call for Papers for: Cambridge University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference ’09
How does your research meet future challenges? How can research challenge the social, political and scientific status quo? How does interdisciplinary communication advance knowledge? What constitutes ‘progress’ in your field?… Read more
CFP: Theory Reading Group at Cornell University
The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its fifth annual interdisciplinary spring conference: “Particularity, Exemplarity, Singularity” Featuring keynote speaker Ian Balfour (York University) Cornell University Ithaca, New… Read more
KRITIKE VOl.2 No.2
1. Editorial: In this Issue of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy – The Editor Featured Essay: 2. To Build or to Destroy? The Philippine Experience with Walls and a… Read more
4 texts by Leland de la Durantaye on Agamben
“Agamben’s Potential.” Diacritics. 30.2 (2000). 3-28 “The Suspended Substantive. On Animals and Men in Giorgio Agamben’s The Open.” Diacritics 33.2 (2005) 3-9. “The Exceptional Life of the State: Giorgio Agamben’s… Read more
Marx: the quest, the path, the destination
Alexander Kluge’s nine-and-a-half hour long film of Marx’s “Kapital” is not a minute too long says Helmut Merker What is a revolutionary? The writings of Marx and Engels both use… Read more
Critchley on Oscar Wilde
Wilde’s extraordinary panegyric to Christ culminates in what he calls Christ’s ‘dangerous idea’. This turns upon the treatment of a sinner like Wilde himself. Christ does not condemn the sinner… Read more
CFP: Freud After Derrida
Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature announces A CALL FOR PAPERS FREUD AFTER DERRIDA: AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE October 6-9, 2010 The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada… Read more
World Pictures Journal: Volume 2
Link to articles Derek Attridge and Henry Staten – Reading for the Obvious: A Conversation Scott Durham – “The Center of the World Everywhere”: Bamako and the Scene of the… Read more