Monthly Archives: October 2011
New Book: Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Gerhard Richter’s groundbreaking study argues that the concept of “afterness” is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean… Read more
New Book: Speaking Hermeneutically
John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding… Read more
Times Higher Education – Out of the shadows
W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by ‘people’s ability to forget what they do not want to know’, settled in 1960s England and wrote groundbreaking… Read more
being-toward-death-2.0
I particularly appreciate what constitute potential mortality… PassMyWill is a free service that will check in with Facebook and Twitter to see if you’re alive and posting updates, if you… Read more
Philosophers Zone – 24 September 2011 – The Mind of Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Emile Lacan, who died in 1981, was a French psychoanalyst and follower of Freud, but his influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of psychiatry: to philosophy, critical… Read more
TOC: Angelaki Volume 16, Issue 2, 2011
Angelaki, Vol. 16, No. 2, 01 Jun 2011 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. This new issue contains the following articles: Editorial Introduction Editorial IntroductionGeneral Issue 2011 Salah el… Read more
CFP: Philosophy and/as Biopolitics
EPTC Incubator Workshop—Philosophy and/as Biopolitics The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for the Second ETPC Incubator. This event will be a… Read more
Foucault. Interview with Stephen Shapiro (2011) « Foucault News
Link to details and podcast English Literature student Alexander Freer and PPE student Danny Smith interview Professor Stephen Shapiro on Foucault’s major theories as part of a series looking at… Read more