Continental Philosophy

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The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce its program for the 2009 Summer School.
Location: 1888 Building, University of Melbourne.
Enrol at http://www.mscp.org.au

Week 1 January 26 – 30
11am – 1pm: Foucault and Hadot: Philosophy as a Way of Life (Ashley Woodward)
2pm – 4pm: History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy, Part 2 (Late Medieval Era) (Ian Weeks)

Week 2 February 2 – 6
11am – 1pm: Environmental Political Theory from Spinoza to Negri (Kate Noble)
2pm – 4pm: History of Philosophy V: Rationalism (Jon Roffe)
Monday and Wednesday, 6 – 8.30pm: Global Warming: Politics and Science in Troubled Times (Cameron Shingleton)

Week 3 February 9 – 13
11am – 1pm: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction (James Williams)
2pm – 4pm: Heidegger’s Being and Time (James Garrett)
Monday and Wednesday, 6 – 8.30pm: Global Warming: Politics and Science in Troubled Times (Cameron Shingleton)

Week 4 February 16 – 20
11am – 1pm: On Slavoj Zizek’s Political Theory, or: Would You Like A Politics With That? (Matthew Sharpe)
2pm – 4pm: Dialectics of Enlightenment (Bryan Cooke)
Monday and Wednesday, 6 – 8.30pm: Global Warming: Politics and Science in Troubled Times (Cameron Shingleton)

For further information and enrollment please visit our website: http://www.mscp.org.au

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Edited by Francois Raffoul and David Pettigrew, French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception

From the publisher’s site:

French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of the most significant and creative figures involved in the reception of Heidegger in France. The essays address those thinkers who have been influenced by Heidegger’s thought and have interpreted it in remarkable ways, including Levinas, Beaufret, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Irigaray, Zarader, Greisch, and Dastur. The volume explores the extraordinary impact that Heidegger’s thought has had on contemporary French philosophy, including such movements as existentialism, deconstruction, feminist theory, post-structuralism, and hermeneutics, and illustrates its impact on the American continental scene as well.

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Elevators, social spaces and racism: A philosophical analysis — George Yancy

Deleuzian capitalism — Frédéric Vandenberghe

Politics as the quest for unity: Perspectivism, incommensurable values and agonistic politics — Brian T. Trainor

Berlin, value pluralism and the common good: A reply to Brian Trainor — George Crowder

Comments on Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding — ALAIN BADIOU (with an introduction by SIMON CRITCHLEY)
Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and against History — ALBERTO TOSCANO
“Living with an Idea”: Ethics and Politics in Badiou’s Logiques des mondes — GABRIEL RIERA
From Universality to Equality: Badiou’s Critique of Rancière — JEFF LOVE AND TODD MAY
The Consistency of Inconsistency: Alain Badiou and the Limits of Mathematical Ontology — TZUCHIEN THO
The Scintillation of the Event: On Badiou’s Phenomenology — GERT-JAN VAN DER HEIDEN
What is to be Done? Alain Badiou and the Pre-Evental — NICK SRNICEK
Paulitics — DAN MELLAMPHY AND NANDITA BISWAS MELLAMPHY
Book Panel/Table ronde
Jay Lampert’s Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History — ALAIN BEAULIEU, FADI ABOU-RIHAN, EUGENE HOLLAND, JAY LAMPERT
Student Essay Prize/Prix-étudiant — The Body as Measurant of All: Dis-covering the World–FLORENTIEN VERHAGE

A review of French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States

There is a central question that provides a guiding thread through François Cusset’s far ranging and intellectually challenging investigation into the reception of “French Theory” in the United States: how is it that “around the beginning of the 1980s, right when the works of Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Derrida were being put to work on American campuses and in some alternative communities as the theoretical foundation for a new type of politics, those very names were being demonized in France as the epitome of an outdated ‘libidinal’ and leftist type of politics”? (XVIII) His study unfolds, examining the chronological periods before and after this crucial decade, casting back to roughly 1966 and then moving forward up until 2004, in an attempt to answer this question and explain the American phenomenon he terms French Theory.

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SEP has published a new entry on Pragmatism.

The Philosopher’s Zone: “Uprootedness and national conflicts“

John Protevi has posted a new draft of his “Deleuze and Cognitive Science” lecture.

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NB: CFP FOR VOLUME 20 IS EXTENDED TO SEP 30

Volume 19: Sense and Nonsense
ISBN 1 897646 15 1

This volume is currently available. For ways to buy this issue click here

Sense and Nonsense

The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze’s Ontological Proposition: RAY BRASSIER
Expression and Immanence: MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI
Nonsense and Mysticism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: ANGELA BREITENBACH
Epistemology and the Civil Union of Sense and Self-Contradiction: A Co-ordinated Solution to the Shared Problems of Political and Mainstream Epistemology: JEREMY BARRIS
Presuppositionless Scepticism: IOANNIS TRISOKKAS

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Essay on Transcendental Philosophy: A Short Overview of the Whole Work; On the Categories; Antinomies. Ideas.: SALOMON MAIMON
Conflicted Matter: Jacques Lacan and the Challenge of Secularising Materialism: ADRIAN O. JOHNSON
Alain Badiou: Truth, Mathematics, and the Claim of Reason: CHRISTOPHER NORRIS
On the Horrors of Realism: An Interview with Graham Harman: TOM SPARROW

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Foucault
Mille Plateaux
Critique et Clinique

JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Finitude: History & Politics

ANTONIO CALCAGNO: Michel Henry’s Non-Intentionality Thesis and Husserlian Phenomenology

FABIO PRESUTTI: Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and the ‘Idea of Language’ in the Synthesis of ‘Being’

BETH LORD: The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant’s Opus Postumum

JAMES N. McGUIRK: Aletheia and Heidegger’s Transitional Readings of Plato’s Cave Allegory

TRACY COLONY: The Wholly Other: Being and the Last God in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy

FARHANG ERFANI: Fixing Marx with Machiavelli: Claude Lefort’s Democratic Turn

L’Anti-Oedipe
Proust et les signes
Spinoza et le problème de l’expression

Very large files. Just received the links; I have not had a chance to check them out yet.

John Protevi and Dan Smith have just published a wonderful entry on Deleuze. It’s quite remarkable.

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TOC: Volume 12 Issue Number 1 Spring 2008

Violence and Embodiment — JAMES MENSCH

Personnage, pensée, perception: Entre figure esthétique et personnage conceptuel, oscille le personnage du cinéma — CAROLINE SAN MARTIN

The Sublimity of Violence: Kant and the Aesthetic Response to the French Revolution –RADU NECULAU

Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif? L’analytique sociale de Michel Foucault — SVERRE RAFFNSØE

Deleuze’s Other-Structure: Beyond the Master-Slave Dialectic, but at What Cost? — JACK REYNOLDS

Le commun et le capital: Réflexions sur le récit thérapeutique d’Antonio Negri — DALIE GIROUX

Erfahren and Erleben: Metaphysical Experience and its Overcoming in Heidegger’s Beiträge — JIM VERNON

Essays are available here

Making Poverty Visible – Three Theses
Alexander García Düttmann, translated by Arne De Boever

‘Falling out of one’s role with art’: Samuel Weber on Benjamin’s -abilities
Interview by Arne De Boever and Alex Murray

Becoming against History: Deleuze, Toynbee and Vitalist Historiography
Christian Kerslake

Differance of the ‘real’
Michael Marder

Why is ‘speaking the truth’ fearless? ‘Danger’ and ‘truth’ in Foucault’s discussion of parrhesia
Alison Ross

Joseph Nechvatal on the Influence of Gilles Deleuze
At The Houston Literary Review
March 2008 Featured Artist Page
http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/Joseph_Nechvatal_March_2008.aspx