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SHAKESPEARE AND PHILOSOPHY
A Seminar with Simon Critchley | June 30- July 7, 2012Whether tragical, comical, historical or lyrical, the vast human panorama of Shakespeare’s work raises many of the deepest and most… Read more
CFP: The Kristeva Circle
Please submit abstracts (500-750 words) on any topic related to the work of Julia Kristeva, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. We welcome submissions from across all disciplines. Abstracts should be suitable for… Read more
Jonathan Rée – Dissing God | New Humanist
The Book of Genesis is a bedtime soporific, not a page-turner. God, says Jonathan Rée, is the death of narrative, and narrative the death of God…
Levinas Teaching Question
Over on the Facebook page of this site, Charles Comer asks: Charles Comer: Does anyone teach Levinas in lower level ethics? If so, what reading do you use? Click here… Read more
Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist—and arguably, although he came to deny it, a… Read more
New Book: Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review
Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review. The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing,… Read more
LENIN’S TOMB: Louis Althusser and socialist strategy
I need to address the influence of Louis Althusser. There is, as Ellen Meiksins Wood has pointed out, a trajectory that can broadly be sketched with Althusser, Poulantzas and… Read more
Dabashi: Slavoj Zizek and Harum Scarum
In Gene Nelson’s “Harum Scarum” (1965), featuring Elvis Presley as the Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Tyronne, we meet the action movie star travelling through the Orient while promoting his new film,… Read more
Call for Papers/Abstracts: Virtue Ethics
We seek original essays that focus on virtue ethics within the phenomenological tradition or utilizing the phenomenological method. Although virtue ethics is a tradition that is well suited to the… Read more
Book Review: Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
Chad Wellmon, Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, 326pp. Becoming Human belongs to two emerging trends in the study of Kant and his… Read more
Simon Critchley interview — Style in Theory
James Corby (University of Malta) interviews Simon Critchley (New School) by video link during the Style in Theory / Styling Theory conference in Malta in November 2009.
Occupy first. Demands come later: Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian
What to do after the occupations of Wall Street and beyond – the protests that started far away, reached the centre and are now, reinforced, rolling back around the world?… Read more
Jonathan Judaken: Interview with Annie Cohen-Solal
Host Jonathan Judaken talks to renowned Satre scholar Annie Cohen-Solal, author of a number of books and essays on Satre, including the international best-selling biography, Jean-Paul Satre: A Life. Annie Cohen-Solal… Read more
Intellectual Roots of Wall Street Protest Lie in Academe – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anarchism in action. The intellectual origins of Occupy Wall Street aren’t in Cambridge or Morningside Heights. They’re in Madagascar…
Drucilla Cornell: The ‘Enabling Violation’ of International Adoption
Defining adoption as “trauma” betrays a prejudice in favor of the traditional heterosexual family.
CFP : Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion June 15-16, 2012 Ryerson University Toronto, Canada We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and abroad on the topic… Read more
Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ Ricoeur Studies: Vol 2, No 1 (2011)
Introduction Gonçalo Marcelo Affirmation originaire, attestation et reconnaissance: Le cheminement de l’anthropologie philosophique ricœurienne Jean-Luc Amalric Paul Ricoeur’s Surprising Take on Recognition Arto Laitinen Recognition and Exteriority: Towards a Recognition-Theoretic… Read more
Psychoanalysis Meets Existentialism: Robert Stolorow on Trauma and Authenticity
Trauma tears apart the context of everyday certainties that sustains us, as Robert Stolorow shows in his new World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2011). Stolorow, a founding… Read more
Book Review: The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London Mellamphy’s book aims to draw… Read more