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Volume 41 – No 2 – May 2010: Confrontations

TRACY COLONY: A Matter of Time: Stiegler on Heidegger and Being Technological
ERNST WOLFF: The Quest for a Post-Metaphysical Access to the Human:
From Marcel to Heidegger
CHAD ENGELLAND: The Phenomenological Kant: Heidegger’s Interest in Transcendental Philosophy
NIALL KEANE: Interpreting Plato Phenomenologically: Relationality and Being in Heidegger’s Sophist
ADAM GONYA: Assertion and Receptivity: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Poet’s Redemptive Utterance
LESTER EMBREE: Wisdom more than Knowledge and more than Loved: Dorion Cairn’s Revision of Husserl’s Philosophic Ideal

An original contribution to a continental philosophy of ethics
“Raffoul shows that philosophers in the continental lineage have persistently concerned themselves with issues of responsibility and provided original ways to rethink the meaning of ethics, choice, freedom, accountability, and moral normativity.” —Charles E. Scott, Vanderbilt University

“This landmark study of responsibility offers novel readings of existing theories from Kant to Levinas and Derrida while giving its own original view of what makes up responsible action. Written with unusual incisiveness, it contains bold insights into how and why human beings are capable of responsibility at every level of their lives.” —Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University
François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Heidegger and the Subject and is translator (with Andrew Mitchell) of Martin Heidegger’s Four Seminars (IUP, 2003).

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Volume 13 Issue Number 2 Fall 2009
Volume 13 Numéro 2 Automne 2009

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Articles

Foucault et Taylor sur la vérité, la liberté et l’identité subjective. Le vouloir-dire-vrai dans la parrêsia, VALÉRIE DAOUST

Deleuze’s Post-Critical Metaphysics, ALISTAIR WELCHMAN

Nietzsche as a Reader of Wilhelm Roux, or the Physiology of History, LUKAS SODERSTROM

Hume et Bergson, une pratique de la méthode chez Deleuze. Réflexions pour une éthique de la lecture, RENÉ LEMIEUX

The Threat of Givenness in Jean-Luc Marion: Toward a New Phenomenology of Psychosis, JOSEPH CAREW

Book Panel/Table-ronde

Bernhard Radloff’s Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism: Disclosure and Gestalt, GRAEME NICHOLSON, TOM ROCKMORE AND BERNHARD RADLOFF
Étude critique/Review Essay

Michel Foucault : Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres et Le Courage de la vérité, ALAIN BEAULIEU

One Day Workshop in continental philosophy
at Michigan State University

Saturday, October 3

Description:

Time and memory are predominate themes throughout Continental Philosophy. This workshop begins with Heidegger’s meditations on historical time and existence and connects them to contemporary discussions on technology and the political, looking closely at Bernard Stiegler’s thesis in “Technics and Time” that technics is not the result but the condition of human life and its cultural evolution. In addition, Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on world and globalization, as well as Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s reflections on Heidegger will be addressed. The workshop will problematize these connections through David Barison and Daniel Ross’ documentary film “The Ister,” which deals with the problem of technology in connection with Heidegger’s interpretation of Hölderlin’s poem “The Ister,” and features Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Stiegler. Of special concern are questions about how technology mediates, determines, and narrates human existence, social life, creativity, history, and the environment. The film will be featured during the workshop followed by brief introductions and extended discussions. More information about “The Ister” can be found at http://www.theister.com.

The Ister:

At the height of WWII, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century delivered a series of lectures on a poem about the Danube river, by one of Germany’s greatest poets. In 1936 Heidegger spent the summer semester lecturing on the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. He focused on a poem about the Danube known as “The Ister.” Rather than an esoteric retreat into the world of poetry, Heidegger’s lectures were a direct confrontation with the political and cultural chaos facing the world in 1942. The film The Ister takes up some of the most challenging paths in Heidegger’s thought, as it journeys from the mouth of the Danube river in Romania to its source in the Black Forest in Germany. However controversial Heidegger continues to be, his thought remains alive in the work of some of the most remarkable thinkers and artists working today. Three of these conduct our voyage upstream along the Danube: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler. The film presents an extended reflection on how technology, time, and modernity are interconnected and how human reality can no longer be understood without the inclusion of technics.

Website: http://www.msu.edu/~lotz/modernityworkshop2009

Schedule: Saturday, October 3

10 Welcome, Richard Peterson, Chair of the Philosophy Department

10 -11 Introduction

Christian Lotz, Remarks on Heidegger and Hölderlin + Discussion

Text: Heidegger, Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘The Ister,’ sections 5-7; 13-15; 22-23; Hölderlin, The Ister

Kyle Whyte, Remarks on Stiegler and Technology

Text: Text: Stiegler, Technics and Time, vol 1, pp 1-28

11-12:15 Film screening, part 1: Bernard Stiegler on Technology and Modernity

12-:15-1:15 Kyle Whyte, Remarks on Stiegler + Discussion

Text: Stiegler, Technics and Time, vol 1, pp 1-28

1:15-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3 Film screening, part 2: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe on Heidegger, Auschwitz and Technology; Jean-Luc Nancy on the

Foundation of the West

3-4 Kyle Whyte, Remarks on Nancy + Discussion

Text: Nancy, The Inoperative Community, pp. 43-70; Nancy, The Creation of the World, pp. 96-109

4-5 Film screening, part 3: Bernard Stiegler on Time and Memory; Syberberg on the Past

5-6 Christian Lotz, Remarks on Stiegler/Syberberg + Discussion

Text: Stiegler, Technics and Time, vol 2, pp. 1-11

6:30pm Social event, Richard Peterson’s house

Brief readings are available for download here: http://www.msu.edu/~lotz/modernityworkshop2009

More on the workshop’s topic can be found here: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/editorial.shtml

Attachment to this email: workshop flyer

Organization: Prof. Christian Lotz / Prof. Kyle Whyte, Dept. of Philosophy, MSU

RSVP would be much appreciated: lotz@msu.edu or kwhyte@msu.edu

Being and Time, part 7: Conscience

For Heidegger, the call of conscience is one that silences the chatter of the world and brings me back to myself

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For James Luchte, Heidegger’s early philosophy is the phenomenology of ecstatic, original temporality as it develops in the years 1924 to 1929. Basing his text on the three components of the phenomenological method — reduction, destruction, and construction — Luchte divides his study into three distinct yet overlapping parts — Heidegger would call them equiprimordial ‘parts’: the [original] Phenomenon, the Destruktion, and the Topos [= building site] of ecstatic temporality. By way of a contrast with Husserl’s phenomenology, Part 1 eventually pinpoints Heidegger’s ‘phenomenological’ reduction quite precisely in “moments of vision, truth events, radical breaks amid system, eruptions: revolution, poetry, art and events of questioning” (47, 59). These moments “breach” our everyday familiarity of being, suspend the normality of our matter-of-fact existence — what Husserl dubbed the “natural attitude” — and disclose our unique being-t/here in the full finitude of its original temporality. We thus come “to ‘know ourselves’ as an ‘event’ amid a world” into which we have been thrown (48).

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La notion de Weltanschauung : généalogie d’un concept et d’un processus
ÉLODIE BOUBLIL
Inter et Inter: A Report on the Metamorphosis of an Actress
ISOBEL BOWDITCH
Spirit and/or Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Encounter with Hegel
DAVID STOREY
Les objets intentionnels – à la frontière entre les actes et le monde
MARIA GYEMANT
Est-il possible de dire l’éthique de la proximité? Contribution au dossier Kierkegaard – Levinas
DOMINIC DESROCHES
The “Inversions” of Intentionality in Levinas and the Later Heidegger
ADAM KONOPKA