Monthly Archives: February 2011
Book Review: Mitchell Aboulafia – Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism
One might look at the number of titles addressed to this issue as a supply glut. Or one might recognize the steady stream of attempts to address these matters as… Read more
Audio: Deleuze’s university lectures (1979-1987)
Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has over 170 audio lectures of Deleuze from 1979 to 1987, including his remarks on Anti-Oedipus, his courses on Cinema, Leibniz,… Read more
CFP: “Self and Community: Global and Multicultural Perspectives”
Self and Community: Global and Multicultural Perspectives Metropolitan State College of Denver 2nd Annual Philosophy Conference April 13-15, 2011 Submission Deadline: March 1, 2011 (Notification of Acceptance by March 11,… Read more
Parallax, Volume 17 Issue 1 2011
TOC Conjurations, Mauro Senatore Conjuring Bodies: Kofman’s Lesson on Death , Pleshette DeArmitt Déjà Vieux: Derrida’s Late Conjuration of de Man, Martin McQuillan The Chase: Rivalry and Conjuration, Kas Saghafi… Read more
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy: Vol 18, No 2 (2008–2010)
Vol 18, No 2 (2008-2010) Special issue on Godard and Philosophy, co-edited by Burlin Barr and John E. Drabinski Table of Contents Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema: Introducing Godard… Read more
Audio: Philosophers Zone – 12 February 2011 – Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood and Sayyid Qutb
The Society of the Muslim Brothers, otherwise known as the Muslim Brotherhood, has been banned in Egypt for many years. Nevertheless, after the recent upheavals, the Brotherhood was among the… Read more
Immanuel Kant’s Guide to a Good Dinner Party
On Kant’s view dining alone is bad for a philosopher: it encourages ‘intellectual self-gnawing’ that leads to a lack of vitality. Eating with at least one other companion, on the… Read more
Edouard Glissant (1928-2011)
In this interview, our guest is poet Edouard Glissant. He speaks up against globalisation and talks about creolisation. He aslo comments on Barack Obama’s vision of the world and the… Read more
Egypt’s joy as Mubarak quits | Tariq Ali
With Hosni Mubarak’s departure, the age of political reason is returning to Egypt and the wider Arab world A joyous night in Cairo. What bliss to be alive, to be… Read more
More philosophers on Egypt
Bert Olivier, Egypt: The crisis of modernity all over again? Slavoj Zizek, For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square Eric Schliesser, Egypt and China And of course Graham… Read more
New Book: Hatred and Forgiveness : Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of… Read more
Spinoza, part 1: Philosophy as a way of life | Clare Carlisle
For this 17th century outsider, philosophy is like a spiritual practice, whose goal is happiness and liberation Although Baruch Spinoza is one of the great thinkers of the European philosophical tradition,… Read more
Book Review: François Raffoul – The Origins of Responsibility
In this book François Raffoul seeks to undertake a major reconsideration of the concept of responsibility, drawing upon the rich resources offered by trajectories in continental thought, notably Nietzsche, Sartre,… Read more
The Philosophical Relevance of Hegel’s Subjective Logic
Second Annual International Summer School in German Philosophy (July 4th – July 15th, 2011) Organizer: Professor Dr. Markus Gabriel Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (Bonn University) Keynote Addresses:… Read more
Why Bouazizi burning set Arab world afire – CSMonitor.com
Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act of self-immolation triggered a shame in many Arabs that they hadn’t done enough for their dignity and freedom, igniting protests for democracy. Under what conditions… Read more
CFP: “Critical Theory and Social Justice,” Fourth International Conference on Critical Theory
Cfp: “Critical Theory and Social Justice,” Fourth International Conference on Critical Theory, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, May 9-11, 2011. The conference will examine the importance and… Read more
Book Review: Don Ihde – Heidegger’s Technologies Postphenomenological Perspectives
Don Ihde dedicated his book Technics and Praxis (1979) to the memory of Martin Heidegger. Twenty seven years later he wrote: I have come to regret that dedication . …. Read more