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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Symposium on Latin American Aesthetics

Iain Macdonald — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:27:23 +0000

Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

Call for Papers (PDF version)

Special Issue on Latin American Thought

Guest Editors: Elizabeth Millán and Hugo Moreno

This special issue of Symposium will focus on Latin American aesthetic thought. The editors are interested in submissions that address any of the following questions:

What is Latin American aesthetic thought?
What is the role of art and literature in the Latin American philosophical tradition?
How does Latin

Conference: Commodification, Technoculture and the Human: Rethinking Technology

Iain Macdonald — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:14:06 +0000

COMMODIFICATION, TECHNOCULTURE, AND THE HUMAN: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGY
Third Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University
With Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, and Paul Thompson
October, 23/24, 2010
Saturday: 9am-6pm, Sunday: 9am-1pm

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An important connection explored in the humanities concerns the degree to which technological rationality changes our lives, whether in terms of our behavior, our conceptions of … Read More …

Workshop: Cutting the “Not”

Iain Macdonald — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:04:21 +0000

Cutting the “Not”: Workshop on Negativity and Reflexivity
September 10-12, 2010
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, Netherlands

Organizers: Mladen Dolar, Avigail Moss, Eli Noé, Kerstin Stakemeier and Tzuchien Tho

Please see our website for schedule and updates.

Cutting the “Not”

The question of the negative has been one of the fundamental concerns, if not the central problem, of modern and postmodern philosophy. If, since Descartes (and more explicitly since Kant), … Read More …

CSCP 2010 Preliminary Conference Programme Now Online

Iain Macdonald — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:05:55 +0000

The provisional programme is available here.

Call for Papers: Second Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Iain Macdonald — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:08:50 +0000

Second Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Toronto, Canada
January 15-16, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: November 1, 2010

The North American Anarchist Studies Network is currently seeking presentations
for our second annual conference to be held at the Steel Worker’s Hall in
Toronto, Canada. We are seeking submissions from radical academics, independent
researchers, community activists, street philosophers and students. We invite
those engaged in intellectual work within existing … Read More …

Sarah Allen, The Philosophical Sense of Transcendence

Marie-Eve Morin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:48:03 +0000

Sarah Allen, The Philosophical Sense of Transcendence: Levinas and Plato on Loving Beyond Being. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2009; 330 pages. ISBN: 978-0820704227.

Review by Tanja Staehler, University of Sussex. Forthcoming in Symposium.

Sarah Allen’s book is concerned with the philosophical sense of transcendence, understood as a movement which exceeds or crosses boundaries. Some take this notion to be incomprehensible, while others believe that it belongs to theology rather than philosophy. In view of this, … Read More …

Dominic Desroches, Expressions éthiques de l’intériorité

Marie-Eve Morin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:41:40 +0000

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Catherine Mills, The Philosophy of Agamben & Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben

Marie-Eve Morin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:07:46 +0000

Catherine Mills, The Philosophy of Agamben. Montreal and Kingston: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2008; 153 pages. ISBN: 978-0773534889.

Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009; 463 pages. ISBN: 978-0804761437.

Review by Jonathan Short, York University. Forthcoming in Symposium.

That ontological concerns feature prominently in the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has undoubtedly complicated his reception, particularly in North America. To say that the intellectual … Read More …

Tanja Staehler, Plato and Levinas

Marie-Eve Morin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:45:41 +0000

Tanja Staehler, Plato and Levinas: The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics. London & New York: Routledge, 2010; xii + 284 pages. ISBN: 978-0415991803.

Review by Sarah Allen, Concordia University. Forthcoming in Symposium.

Levinas’ thought is known as one of extremes, radically separating self from other, singularity from universality, and ethics from overarching political structures and philosophical concepts. A critical question that often arises is how one can move from one extreme to … Read More …

Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds (eds), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts

Marie-Eve Morin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:22:38 +0000

Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds (eds), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen, 2008; 255 pages. ISBN: 978-1844651160.

Review by Martin Goldstein, St-Paul University. Forthcoming in Symposium.

This volume in Acumen’s Key Concepts series makes a significant contribution to the growing appreciation of Merleau-Ponty’s body of work. The editors, Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds, have assembled a remarkably concise volume that is of interest to both those seeking an introduction to Merleau-Ponty’s thought, as well as … Read More …