Continental Philosophy

JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
Volume 40 – No 3 – October 2009
Hermeneutics
Including the following articles:

NICHOLAS DAVEY
Lest We Forget:
The Question of Being and Philosophical Hermeneutics
GÜNTER FIGAL
Hermeneutics as Phenomenology
ANNETTE HILT
The Anthropological Boundaries of Comprehensive Meaning,
its Finitudes and Openness:
Towards a Hermeneutics of Expressivity
DANIEL L. TATE
Art as Cognitio Imaginativa:
Gadamer on Intuition and Imagination in Kant’s Aesthetic Theory
JAMES RISSER
The Incapacity of Language
JENS ZIMMERMANN
Weak Thought or Weak Theology?
A Theological Critique of Vattimo’s Incarnational Ontology

And A Discussion Paper
ALFONS GRIEDER
What are Boundary Situations?
A Jaspersian Notion Reconsidered:

And Book Reviews
Nicholas Davey: Unquiet Understanding; Gadamer’s
Philosophical Hermeneutics, by Blair M. Ogden

Steven M. Rosen: Topologies of the Flesh: A Multidimensional
Exploration of the Lifeworld, by Orion Edgar

Simon Glendinning: The Idea of Continental Philosophy,
by A.C. Zielinska

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Oxford Forum Public Conference — Ricoeur: On Memory, Politics and Forgiveness

20-21 March 2009, Faculty of Philosophy and Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Friday, 20 March, Faculty of Philosophy

14.00-15.15 Dialogue with Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford)
On Confidence, Power and Affirmation

15.15-15.30 Break

15.30-16.45 Dialogue with Luc Bovens (LSE)
On Apologies and Forgiveness

16.45-17.15 Coffee/Tea

17.15-18.30 Dialogue with Morny Joy (Calgary)
On Solicitude and Gift

Saturday, 21 March, Regent’s Park College

11.30-12.45 Dialogue with David Klemm (Iowa-Glasgow)
On Reading Ricoeur (tbc)

13.00-14.15 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15-15.30 Dialogue with William Schweiker (Chicago)
On Ricoeur and Theological Humanism (tbc)

15.30-16.00 Coffee/Tea

16.00-17.00 Round table
Chair: David Jasper (Glasgow)

The event is open to all and there are no registration fees. For further information and to book a place contact Roxana Baiasu, Roxana.Baiasu@philosophy.ox.acor Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539, J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk
Forum for European Philosophy European Institute, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE www.philosophy-forum.org

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The ego, the Other and the primal fact — Toru Tani

Husserl’s transcendental philosophy and the critique of naturalism — Dermot Moran

Some differences between Kant’s and Husserl’s conceptions of transcendental philosophy — Thomas J. Nenon

Heidegger in Mexico: Emilio Uranga’s ontological hermeneutics — Carlos Alberto Sanchez

A non-Bergsonian Bachelard — Jean François Perraudin

Laughing at finitude: Slavoj Žižek reads Being and Time — Thomas Brockelman

Ricoeur and the pre-political — Farhang Erfani and John F. Whitmire

Autonomy, Reciprocity, and Responsibility: Darwall and Levinas on the Second Person, Michael D. Barber

Locke, Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity, Patrick Stokes

Belief and Self-consciousness, David Hunter

Postmetaphysical Thinking or Refusal of Thought? Max Horkheimer’s Materialism as Philosophical Stance, J. C. Berendzen

Seebohm’s Hermeneutics and Gadamer, Robert Dostal

Schutz, Seebohm, and Cultural Science, Lester Embree

Seebohm, Husserl, and Dilthey, Thomas Nenon

Three Responses, Thomas M. Seebohm

A new book:The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat

An interview with the author

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

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The role of judgment and orientation in hermeneutics — Rudolf A. Makkreel

Aesthetic reflection and its ethical significance: A critique of the Kantian solution — Christoph Menke

Does Kant share Sancho’s dream?: Judgment and sensus communis — Alessandro Ferrara

Reflective judgment as world disclosure — María Pía Lara

Imagination and judgment in Kant’s practical philosophy — Alfredo Ferrarin

Rereading `Truth and Politics’ — Ronald Beiner

Rereading Rawls in Arendtian light: Reflective judgment and historical experience — Carlos Thiebaut

Judgment and the reification of the faculties: A reconstructive reading of Arendt’s Life of the Mind — Robert Fine

Conscience, morality and judgment: An inquiry into the subjective basis of human rights — Serena Parekh

Matisse with Dewey and Deleuze: ERIC ALLIEZ AND JEAN-CLAUDE BONNE

Between Geophilosophy and Political Physiology: JOHN PROTEVI

Facticity and Contingency in Louis Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism: MAX HENNINGER

Immanent Description and Writing From…: STUART GRANT

Lights in the Dark: The Radical Empiricism of Emmanuel Levinas and William James: MEGAN CRAIG

Empiricism, Facticity, and the Immanence of Life in Dilthey: ERIC SEAN NELSON

Duns Scotus’ Concept of the Univocity of Being: Another Look: PHILIP TONNER

Schelling’s Positive Empiricism: RASMUS UGILT

Spinoza’s Third Kind of Knowledge as a Resource for Schelling’s Empiricism: CHRIS LAUER

What is Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze and Sartre on Bergson: GIOVANNA GIOLI

A Superior Empiricism: The Subject and Experimentation: SIMONE BIGNALL

Emergent Village Podcast

* Jack Caputo
* Richard Kearney
* 50 minutes

Here’s the mp3 file for download

(H/t: Michael O’Rourk)

A new entry at SEP:

Gadamer (1900–2002) does not provide an account of the aesthetic in any customary sense. His approach to art runs, in many ways, against conventional philosophical expectations. Aesthetic qualities are not debated in the manner of the analytic tradition of modern philosophy, nor does he concern himself overtly with the problems of aesthetic pleasure. Gadamer’s approach to aesthetic experience stands squarely in the phenomenological tradition. He is primarily concerned with the place of art in our experience of the world. Furthermore, his approach to aesthetic theory is one of those rare intellectual achievements which are simultaneously deconstructive and constructive. He dismantles elements of the grand tradition of Platonic, Kantian and Hegelian aesthetics and yet offers a phenomenological reconstruction of many of the central insights of that tradition to demonstrate their continuing relevance to our contemporary experience of art. Gadamer is primarily concerned with the cognitive dimension of such experience, with what art works address and what they put at issue. This makes for a flexible philosophical approach capable of ranging freely over a number of art forms and styles, discussing both the singularity of works and their broader significance. The approach is clearly hermeneutical in that it endeavours to re-acquaint us with those received meanings and pre-occupations which underlie our experience of art. Openly influenced by Heidegger, his later essays on language and poetry in particular, Gadamer’s aesthetics is far from traditional.

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A phenomenology of gender — Johanna Oksala

Betrayal in teaching: Persuasion in Kierkegaard, theory and performance — David A. Borman

Heidegger’s animals — Stuart Elden

Lacan’s subversion of the subject — Ed Pluth

Dialectic and dialogue in the hermeneutics of Paul Ricœur and H.G. Gadamer — Francisco J. Gonzalez

From NDPR, a review of The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (Cambridge Companions to Religion)

The Cambridge Companion to Schleiermacher, a volume in the Cambridge Companions to Religion series, is divided into three parts (I: Schleiermacher as Philosopher, II: Schleiermacher as Theologian, III: Culture, Society, and Religion), and contains sixteen wide-ranging contributions, along with an Introduction, an extensive Schleiermacher bibliography (including both German texts and English translations), and an Index. I will begin this review with a brief descriptive summary of each contribution, move on to some evaluative comments on a few pieces that may be of particular interest to readers of NDPR (or, at least, that are of particular interest to this reviewer), and conclude with some brief evaluative comments about the volume as a whole.

The rest 

PRINCETON, N.J., October 31, 2006 — Clifford Geertz, an eminent scholar in the field of cultural anthropology known for his extensive research in Indonesia and Morocco, died at the age of 80 early yesterday morning of complications following heart surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Geertz was Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he has served on the Faculty since 1970. Dr. Geertz's appointment thirty-six years ago was significant not only for the distinguished leadership it would bring to the Institute, but also because it marked the initiation of the School of Social Science, which in 1973 formally became the fourth School at the Institute.

Dr. Geertz's landmark contributions to social and cultural theory have been influential not only among anthropologists, but also among geographers, ecologists, political scientists, humanists, and historians. He worked on religion, especially Islam; on bazaar trade; on economic development; on traditional political structures; and on village and family life. A prolific author since the 1950s, Dr. Geertz's many books include The Religion of Java (1960); Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (1968); The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (1973, 2000); Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth Century Bali (1980); and The Politics of Culture, Asian Identities in a Splintered World (2002). At the time of his death, Dr. Geertz was working on the general question of ethnic diversity and its implications in the modern world.

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Here is an interview with Paul Ricoeur on Arts, Language and Hermeneutic Aesthetics.

Just a passage:

To return to Kant, it is striking to see that he was very severely at a loss to situate genius in relation to the beautiful and the sublime, because there always remains something of the retrospective in the judgment of taste, whereas the beautiful creates anew.  I am interested in this problem, either by way of  metaphor, or else from narrative, within the theme of semantic innovation.  In both cases, the idea emerges of a new meaning which had not been there.  Thus metaphor is the capacity to produce a new meaning, at the flash-point where a semantic incompatibility founders in the confrontation of several levels of signification, to produce a new signification which exists only in the breaking up of the semantic fields.  In the case of narrative, I would risk saying that what I call the synthesis of the heterogeneous does not create any less novelty than metaphor, but this time in the composition, in the configuration of a narrated temporality, of a narrative temporality.  To join together multiple events, causalities, finalities and contingencies, is to produce a new meaning which is the plot. Each plot is singular and  has exactly the status of the work of art according to Kant: the singularity capable of being shared. 

Thanks to Jim Ambury for the link.

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Here is the transcript.

I started a list of continental-related philosophical associations. I would like to bring a new society to your attention as well: The North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. Its mission statement:

NASPH was formed in 2005 in order to further the study of philosophical hermeneutics. While honoring the rootedness of philosophical hermeneutics in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, NASPH also recognizes that the future of such thinking depends on engaging with a diverse range of figures and issues. Our intention is to promote dialogue focusing on both the sources of, and the prospects for, philosophical hermeneutics.