Judith Butler,‘What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue’

Robert J.C. Young,‘Foucault on Race and Colonialism’

Scu’s new blog, Critical Animal, entries on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’

A new blog on Agamben.

“Philosophical insults” through the history of philosophy: a comic strip

“Plato’s Aesthetics“: new in SEP

Ranciere and Nancy on Vendredi de la philosophie

And finally on the “Viroid Life“

The British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference
3rd – 5th April 2009
St Hilda’s College Oxford

Nietzsche and Phenomenology

Nietzsche has been important for many thinkers in the phenomenological tradition, yet the relation between his work and phenomenology remains very much in question. This conference will examine both phenomenological readings of Nietzsche and the influence of Nietzsche on phenomenology.

* If there are connections between Nietzschean thought and phenomenology, what form do they take?

* Can Nietzsche be seen as a phenomenologist, or is phenomenological method fundamentally different from his way of thinking?

* What links can be drawn between Nietzsche’s genealogical method and any of the various forms of phenomenology practised today?

* In what respects are Nietzsche’s hermeneutics those of phenomenology: for example, is a ‘physician’ of culture still a phenomenologist, and if so, how?

* In dealing with the theme of ‘Nietzsche and Phenomenology’ it is impossible to ignore Heidegger’s monumental study of Nietzsche. But is it still the paradigm for phenomenological approaches to Nietzsche?

By assessing Nietzsche’s relation to the various phenomenological projects of the 20th and 21st centuries, the conference aims to reconsider the parameters of phenomenology itself – what it aspired to be in the past, and what its validity is for us today.

Speakers

Ulli Haase (Manchester Metropolitan University)
David Farrell Krell (DePaul University)
Jill Marsden (University of Bolton)
Will McNeill (DePaul University)
Graham Parkes (University College Cork)
Andrea Rehberg (Bilkent University)
John Sallis (Boston College)
Jim Urpeth (University of Greenwich)

Conference organizers; Andrea Rehberg and Tony O’Connor.

Further information, including registration details, will appear on the web-site of The British Society for Phenomenology in due course: see, http://www.britishphenomenology.com.

Unfortunately, there will be no space on the programme this year for papers received in response to a call. However, we underline that postgraduate research students and undergraduates are very welcome. Two bursaries will be available for postgraduate students to offset the cost of attending the conference.

To find out more about the bursaries, or if you have any queries, please contact:

David Webb
Faculty of Arts Media and Design
Staffordshire University
College Road
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 2XW UK
d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk

Alan Schrift, Questioning Authority: Nietzsche’s Gift to Derrida

Brian T. Prosser and Andrew Ward, Kierkegaard’s “Mystery Of Unrighteousness” In The Information Age (via wood’s lot)

Zizek, “The Secret Clauses of the Liberal Utopia”:

TOC

The time of hybridity — Simone Drichel

Arendt and Nietzsche on responsibility and futurity — Rosalyn Diprose

Levinas, Habermas and modernity — Nicholas H. Smith

Antinomies of transcritique and virtue ethics: An Adornian critique — Giuseppe Tassone

A law’s tale: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Gertrud Koch

From avenging to revolutionary force: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Hauke Brunkhorst

A review of Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy

Christopher Janaway proposes to “transmit something of the richness and reward to be found in reading Nietzsche’s texts themselves” (p. 2). In the hands of a scholar less skilled than Janaway, such a proclamation would be a red flag to the philosophical reader that a lot of bad paraphrase and mimicry of Nietzsche’s writing style was in the offing. There is, happily, none of the latter, and very little of the former, in this intelligent and illuminating book, which aims to defend two rather precise theses about reading Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality: first, that Nietzsche’s method of writing is intended to engage the reader emotionally or affectively; and second, that such affective engagement is a necessary precondition for altering the reader’s views about evaluative questions — that “without the rhetorical provocations, without the revelation of what we find gruesome, shaming, embarrassing, comforting, and heart-warming we would neither comprehend nor be able to revalue our current values” (p. 4; cf. pp. 96-98).

Rest of the review

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick is hosting a Nietzsche workshop on Thursday 5 June 2008:

Full programme information/speakers can be found at:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/nietzscheworkshops2008/openworkshop/

Please register soon to ensure a place

Many of his essays, especially on Nietzsche, are available on his site.

Link

An interview with a sociologist who blames Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty!

Nietzsche wrote that a philosophy is always the biography of the philosopher. Maybe a biography of the philosopher by the philosopher himself is a piece of philosophy. So I shall tell you nine stories taken of my private life, with their philosophical morality… The first story is the story of the father and the mother.

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