Continental Philosophy

From this issue of the New Yorker.

14th Annual Philosophy Conference at Villanova University

“New French Thought”

Keynote Speaker: Bernard Stiegler

April 3-4, 2009

We encourage submissions that consider any theme in contemporary French philosophy, which might engage figures including (but not limited to): Badiou, Rancière, Descombes, Meillassoux, Compagnon, Laruelle, Kristeva, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Cixous, Stiegler, Deleuze, Marion, Balibar, Aron, Laplanche, Castoriadis, Latour, Ferry, Ricœur, Derrida, Virilio, Lefort, Henry, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Gauchet, Manent, Renaut, Baudrillard, Lazarus, Macherey, Rabaté, Gaillard, Brisson, Romano, Malabou, Lyotard, Milner, Serres, and others.

Submission Guidelines

We encourage submissions from faculty and graduate students of abstracts (at least 300 words) and/or papers (3,000 to 5,000 words).

Please submit in blind review format to ryan.feigenbaum@villanova.edu by February 1, 2009.

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Table of Contents

Articles

Book Encounters

TOC

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

As you make your wishes for the new year, remember Lacan (via Kevin Spacey):

(h/t: the one and only Peter)

Call for Submissions
Religion and Popular Culture
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 15 May 2009

At a time when many in the U.S. and around the world encounter religion as a polarizing subject, one especially revered by some and utterly contested by others, this issue of Reconstruction seeks to explore questions arising at the intersection of religious experience and popular culture. To engage the relationship of religion and popular culture requires discipline-based, trans-disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary approaches in order to interpret these broad ranges of human experience.

Over the past three decades, scholarship in the Humanities evaluating the relationships between religion and popular culture has increased dramatically. This particular issue seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore, analyze, and/or interpret the myriad interrelations and interactions that exist between religion and popular culture. Despite some recent attention, the role popular culture plays in religious experience is often undervalued. Popular culture not only presents and portrays religious ideas and norms, it also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which religious meaning is communicated and understood. Submissions need not be directed toward any particular religious tradition or geared for any single definition of religion. Instead, religion might be imagined in any (or none) of the following ways: as an expression of doctrinal beliefs and/or core values, as an on-going movement between an individual or community and a larger socio-cultural matrix, or as essentially a cultural construction. Theological investigations that engage cultural studies from a faith perspective are certainly encouraged. We also welcome perspectives that interrogate the stability of meaning(s) assigned to such terms (”culture,” “religion,” “popular,” etc.) and their complex inter-relations.

Specifically, submissions should be framed with at least one of the following four rubrics in mind: religion within popular culture, popular culture within religion, religion as popular culture (and vice versa), or religion in tension with popular culture.

We welcome manuscripts that produce conversations engaging historical, ethnographic, normative, literary, anthropological, philosophical, artistic, political or other terms that elaborate a relationship between religion and popular culture. For example, submissions might investigate religious expression(s) in relation to any of the following realms of contemporary popular culture:

Note: This list is representative, but certainly not exhaustive.

Please send proposals, abstracts, completed essays, multimedial performances, etc. to Nate Hinerman and Michael Benton at religionculture_at_gmail.com by 15 May 2009. We are happy to consider abstracts and proposals prior to this date. Publication is expected in the first quarter of 2010. All submissions are refereed. Papers must follow the Reconstruction guidelines for submission <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/guidelines.shtml>.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture <http://reconstruction.eserver.org> (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes three themed issues and one open issue quarterly. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

This year it is exactly 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Krisis’ new issue is therefore dedicated to philosophy and human rights. Regina Kreide, Ernst van den Hemel and Marc de Wilde write about a wide range of philosophical issues connected with human rights, and Thomas Poell and Sudeep Dasgupta review two recent publications about human rights.

Ernst van den Hemel: ‘Included but not Belonging. Badiou and Rancière on Human Rights’.
In this article the standpoints on Human Rights by two contemporary French philosophers, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière are explored. Their criticalreading of the project of Human Rights moves away from the reading that we can see in the work of Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben.Instead both Badiou and Rancière offer a critical version of Human Rights thatcan be subsumed under the phrase ‘included but not belonging’. Theirinterventions on Human Rights reveal, besides important similarities,significant differences. For Badiou, notions likehuman rights, and democracy, should be rejected altogether, whereas Rancièrestill sees critical potential for both the project of human rights and democracy.This difference can be attributed to the divergent notions of truth that thetwo philosophers apply. The article ends with a sketch of the critical andmilitant potential of the work of these two theorists.
http://krisis.eu/content/2008-3/2008-3-03-hemel.pdf

Regina Kreide: ‘Power and Powerlessness of Human Rights. The International Discourse on Human Rights’.
The goal of this article is to reconstruct the arguments brought forward in international political discourse and political theory discourse, and to present a suggestion for the conditions of a context-sensible foundation and juridification of human rights. In this course neither the objections of opponents of a universalistic human rights conception are overlooked, nor claims to universally valid human rights, equally effective for all humans, are given up.
http://krisis.eu/content/2008-3/2008-3-02-kreide.pdf

The British Society for Phenomenology

NIETZSCHE AND PHENOMENOLOGY

St Hilda’s College, Oxford, April 3rd – 5th 2009

Speakers

Ullrich Haase (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘History: Heidegger on Nietzsche’s 2nd Untimely Meditation’

David Krell (Depaul University)
‘Nietzsche in Derrida’s Politiques de l’amitié’

Will McNeill (Depaul University)
‘The Descent of Philosophy: On the Nietzschean Legacy in Heidegger’s
Phenomenology’

Graham Parkes (University College Cork)
‘Nietzsche on Experiencing the Natural World - As It Really Is?’

Andrea Rehberg (Bilkent University)
‘Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: Physiology, Body, Flesh’

John Sallis (Boston College)
‘Perspectives on Shining: Nietzsche and Beyond’

Jim Urpeth (Greenwich University)
‘The Phenomenology of Religious Life; Nietzsche and Bergson’

Book Discussion Session
Prof Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University)and tbc will discuss Jill
Marsden’s book After Nietzsche (Palgrave)
Jill Marsden (University of Bolton) will respond.

Registration forms are available on the BSP web-site:
http://www.britishphenomenology.com, or from David Webb: d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk

Bursary

Two Bursaries are available for post-graduate students to offset the cost of attending the conference. Each bursary will cover two nights B&B at St Hilda’s College and the cost of the main conference dinner. In return, the recipients of the bursaries are asked to assist at the registration desk at certain times throughout the conference and to prepare a report of the conference for the BSP web-site. There is still time to apply for a bursary. Please write a brief outline (400-600 words) of why attending the conference will be useful for you in your research, and send this to:
David Webb, Arts Media and Design, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on- Trent, ST4 2XW (d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk) by 19th January 2009.

Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy

La société canadienne de philosophie continentale

The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its annual conference on October 15 – 17, 2009, at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, London.

We invite papers or panels on any theme relevant to the broad concerns of continental philosophy. Please submit complete papers (no more than 4500 words) and a brief abstract (150 words). If you are submitting a panel proposal, send only a 750 word abstract for each paper. Please prepare your paper for blind review as an attachment in Word.

All submissions (in French or English) must be sent electronically by June 1, 2009, to:

Antonio Calcagno, CSCP Local Coordinator, acalcagn@uwo.ca

If you are a graduate student, please identify yourself as such in order to be eligible for the graduate student essay prize. The winner will be announced at the annual conference and considered for publication in the following spring issue of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.

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