A One Day Workshop
Thurs 27th Feb 2003
University of Warwick

From Nietzsche, Marx, and Heidegger to Foucault, Irigaray, Derrida, and Deleuze, continental philosophers have not hesitated to return to antiquity in order to draw upon ancient philosophical resources for their own work. While not always scholarly, these creative appropriations nevertheless form an important theme within modern European thought. Moreover, they often constitute decisive moments in the philosophical development of individual thinkers, moments that deserve close attention.

This workshop will examine a number of these relationships, focusing upon Heidegger, Bergson, Bachelard, Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault among the moderns, and Platonism, Atomism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and early Christian thought from antiquity.

Timetable

Registration: 10.00-10.25

Session 1: 10.30-12.00

• Stella Sandford (Middlesex): 'How the West was One: Heidegger and the Greek Origin in Continental Philosophy'

• Nina Power (Middlesex): 'Discontinuity contra Durée: Bachelard and Bergson's Temporal Confrontations with Ancient Atomism'

Lunch (not provided): 12.00-1.00

Session 2: 1.00-2.30

• Bob Plant (Aberdeen): 'Perhaps: Jacques Derrida and Pyrrhonian Scepticism'
• Lorenzo Chiesa (Warwick): 'Le ressort de l'amour: Lacan's Theory of Love in his Reading of Plato's Symposium'

Coffee Break (drinks provided): 2.30-3.00

Session 3: 3.00-4.30

• John Sellars (Warwick): 'Foucault's Ethics via Chrysippus' Cylinder'
• Jones Irwin (St Patrick's, Dublin): 'Confessions of the Flesh: On Foucault's Analysis of Early Christianity'