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Research Seminar in Post-Kantian European Philosophy, 2019/2020

Unless otherwise stated, Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Group seminars take place on Tuesdays, 5:30–7:30pm in Room S0.11 (ground floor of Social Studies). All welcome. For further information, please contact tbc

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Tue 20 Oct, '20
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Robert C Miner (Baylor University)

Title: 'In the South: Nietzsche and the Homines Religiosi in The Gay Science V'

Tue 3 Nov, '20
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Thomas Nail (University of Denver)

Title: TBC

Tue 17 Nov, '20
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick)

Title: 'The Rhythm of Democracy - The Pulse of Destruction'

Tue 1 Dec, '20
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Wahida Khandar (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Title: 'Sketches of Lived Time'

Thu 7 Jan, '21
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Beyond The Punitive Society
Webinar

A joint session of 'Abolition 13/13' with Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Contributors:

Miguel de Beistegui

Claire Blencowe

Henrique Carvalho

Stuart Elden

Daniele Lorenzini

Goldie Osuri

Irene Dal Poz

Federico Testa

Bernard E Harcourt

Tue 19 Jan, '21
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Manon Garcia (Harvard Society of Fellows)

Title: 'Masculinity as an Impasse: Beauvoir's Understanding of Men's Situation in The Second Sex'

Wed 20 Jan, '21
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Biopolitics Reading Group
MS Teams

'Biopolitics and Deconstruction'

Guest Speaker: Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick)

Wed 3 Feb, '21
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Biopolitics Reading Group
MS Teams

'Transgressive Resistance and Biopolitics'

Guest Speaker: Guilel Treiber (KU Leuven)

Tue 9 Feb, '21
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Miguel de Beistegui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Title: 'The Spirit of Revenge and Its Political Density: Between Spinoza and Nietzsche'

Tue 23 Feb, '21
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge)

Title: 'Kant's Idea of Unity'

Wed 3 Mar, '21
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Biopolitics Reading Group
MS Teams

'From Biopolitics to Bodypolitics'

Guest Speaker: Karsten Schubert (Freiburg)

Tue 9 Mar, '21
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Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar
Webinar

Speaker: Fiona Hughes (University of Essex)

Title: 'The Significance of the Use of Relief for the Structure of Intentions in Late Palaeolithic Cave Art'

Wed 17 Mar, '21
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Biopolitics Reading Group
MS Teams

'The Biopolitics of Mobility'

Guest Speaker: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths)

Fri 26 Mar, '21 - Sat 27 Mar, '21
All-day
Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2020/21
Online

Runs from Friday, March 26 to Saturday, March 27.

Theme: 'Continental Philosophy and Its Histories'

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Stella Sandford (Kingston University)

Dr Mogens Laerke (CNRS)

Dr Francey Russell (Columbia University)

Continental Philosophy often focuses its efforts on studying, comparing, and criticising the thought of past philosophers. One would be hard-pressed to find a thinker in the Continental tradition who has not understood and presented their own thought in relation to an Ancient Greek, or a Modern philosopher. But these philosophers do not approach historical figures as ‘historians of ideas’ or as ‘experts’ on a historical period. Rather, the new philosophy is seen as standing in contrast to, or as a continuation of, the problems and questions of the past. As such, Continental Philosophy often places a strong emphasis on the construction of, and the engagement with, its histories, thereby understanding and differentiating itself on the basis of traditions, schools, and systems, rather than theories, disciplines, and problems.

One of the aims of this conference is to investigate different ways in which Continental Philosophy engages with the thinkers that belong to its history: what is it to ‘read’ Plato, Spinoza, Kant, or Nietzsche in Continental Philosophy? How important is the canon and what is its methodological and philosophical significance? Should we keep putting forward various creative (mis)readings of the past philosophers or, as Husserl has suggested early on, is it better to get rid of the past and proceed afresh with a new method?

History, however, is more than a ‘tool’ utilised by Continental Philosophy. From Hegel’s Philosophy of History and Marx’s materialisation of it, to Heidegger’s distinction between Historie and Geschichte, and Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment Continental Philosophy makes the phenomenon (in contrast to the discipline) of history the very object of its investigations. Hence, we wonder: what does it mean to write a ‘philosophy of history’ and what possible form can such an enquiry take today?

But it must not be forgotten that Continental Philosophy can itself be seen as a period in the longer history of philosophy. This makes the very concept of Continental Philosophy open to inquiry by philosophers, but also to historians, sociologists, political scientists, etc. What does it mean to address Continental philosophy as a historical period? Can methods, approaches, traditions, and theories from other disciplines illuminate and inform philosophical understandings of Continental Philosophy? Can such approaches be helpful to disciplines other than philosophy? This is another crucial topic that this conference aims to investigate.

This conference is made possible by generous funding provided by the University of Warwick Philosophy Department and British Society for the History of Philosophy. It is an annual event within The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy (University of Warwick).

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/postkantian/events/wcpc

Tue 4 May, '21
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar Series
MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse University)

Title: Contested Legacies: Constellations of Terrorism in the Postbellum United States

Response by Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick)

The seminar will be held online on MS Teams. If you wish to attend and be added to the Team, please send an email to Daniele.Lorenzini@warwick.ac.uk.

Thu 3 Jun, '21 - Fri 4 Jun, '21
10am - 6pm
Workshop: Genealogy in the Analytic and Continental Traditions

Runs from Thursday, June 03 to Friday, June 04.

On 3-4 June 2021, Daniele Lorenzini is organising a workshop on genealogy in the analytic and continental traditions, with papers by Amy Allen (Penn State), Sacha Golob (KCL), Guy Longworth (Warwick), Matthieu Queloz (Oxford), Daniel Rodriguez-Navas (New School), Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Groningen), Lee Wilson (Edinburgh) and himself. The workshop will take place in the afternoon of those two days, to allow the speakers who are based in the US to participate. Q&A and general discussion will constitute the most important part of the workshop.

Tue 8 Jun, '21
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CRPLA/CPKEP Joint Event: Naomi Waltham-Smith Book Launch
Tue 19 Oct, '21
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Michelle Kosch (Cornell)

Title: 'Recognition After Fichte'

Tue 2 Nov, '21
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Tuomo Tiisala (Helsinki)

Title: 'Truth, the Whole Truth, and Politics and Truth: Foucault on the Revaluation of Values'

Wed 17 Nov, '21
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Johanna Oksala (Loyola, University of Chicago)

Title: 'The Subjects of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault'

Tue 30 Nov, '21
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Samantha Matherne (Harvard)

Title: 'The Normativity of Colour: Phenomenological Perspectives'

Tue 25 Jan, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
S0.08/online

Guest Speaker: Mark Wrathall (Oxford)

Title: 'The 'Existential' verses the 'Modal' Interpretation of Heidegger's Conception of Death'

Tue 8 Feb, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
R1.13/online

Speaker: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)

Title: Understanding Meaning in the History of Philosophy

Abstract:

I advance a new and mainly internal criticism of Quentin Skinner’s claim, first made in his seminal “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas” (1969), and subsequently never retracted or weakened, that ‘there are no perennial questions in philosophy’, and that Cambridge school style historical interpretation should have sole custody over the proper meaning of texts and theories in the history of philosophy. I lay out two premises to which Skinner is committed: an Austinian conception of linguistic practice, and an Anscombian conception of ‘intention-in-action’. From these I argue that there are, and will continue to be, ‘perennial questions’ in philosophy in the very sense that Skinner denies. My overall aim is to limit Skinner’s conception of historical interpretation, to make room for methodological pluralism in the history of philosophy.

 

Tue 8 Mar, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
R1.13/online

Guest Speaker: Andrew Huddleston (Warwick)

Title: 'The Idea of a 'Religion of Art': The Case of Wagner'

Speaker: Andrew Huddleston (Warwick)

Title: The Idea of a "Religion of Art": The Case of Wagner

Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Time: 5.30pm-7.15pm (UK time)

 Abstract:

This talk draws on a wider project of mine considering a theme in the aesthetic theorizing and art-making of the post-Kantian period, especially pronounced in German Romanticism, and going through the 19th century, and into the 20th century to certain key segments of artistic, literary, and musical modernism. An oft-expressed ambition is that art will somehow step in and fill the void left behind by waning religion. In this talk specifically, I use Richard Wagner’s theoretical writings (and some responses to his works and his agenda) as one lens for better understanding this exalted ambition for art and the limitations of this ambition. 

The seminar will be held in hybrid mode: in person (room R1.13) and online on MS Teams.

 

Tue 17 May, '22
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Workshop: 'Hegel on Being'
S0.11/online

Workshop on Stephen Houlgate's Hegel on Being (Bloomsbury, 2021)

 Comments from Elena Ficara (Paderborn) and Robert Stern (Sheffield)

Reply from Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

Tue 31 May, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
R1.13/online

Guest Speaker: Rachel Cristy (KCL)

Title: 'Nietzsche and William James on Scientism and Fanaticism'

Tue 18 Oct, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
S0.28

Guest Speaker: Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University)

Title: 'We Voluntary Victorians: Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1 Revisited'

Tue 1 Nov, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
S0.28

The speaker is Tobias Keiling - join us to celebrate Tobias’ inaugural talk at Warwick!

Talk: Gadamer on Openness as Epistemic Virtue

Abstract: This paper presents the discussion of open-mindedness in recent virtue epistemology to argue that it can be supplemented by a hermeneutical model. After introducing basic distinctions, I sketch the account of open-mindedness found in the work of Jason Baehr (2011) and Wayne Riggs (2010, 2015). I then zoom in on two problems in the recent debate: how to determine when open-mindedness is epistemically beneficial and how to construe its epistemic value. While Adam Carter and Emma Gordon (2014) argue that these problems are insurmountable for Baehr and Riggs, I outline the idea that their account can be modified in such a way as to avoid these problems. Specifically, Gadamer’s discussion of the structure of prejudice and the importance of openness for understanding in Truth and Method (1960) can be developed as an alternative hermeneutical model for understanding open-mindedness. The key idea is that the circular structure Carter and Gordon find at work in Baehr’s attempt to define open-mindedness represents a version of the hermeneutical circle rather than an infinite regress.

Tue 15 Nov, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
Online Only

Guest Speaker: Maudemarie Clark (University of California, Riverside)

Title: 'Does Nietzsche Overcome The Birth of Tragedy's Nihilistic View of Tragedy in His Later Work?'

 

Abstract: Our topic is the relationship between the account of tragedy we find in Nietzsche’s first book and his later view of that artistic genre. Aaron Ridley has argued powerfully that Nietzsche’s later view does not overcome the problems that afflict his earlier account. We agree completely with Ridley and we [Clark] have previously argued that Nietzsche’s original account of tragedy is a failure, that it fails to do what he was attempting to do. But we will argue contra Ridley that Nietzsche does overcome his early (and nihilistic) view of tragedy in his later work. The plan is to explain what we take to be the aim of The Birth of Tragedy and why we take it to be a failure. We will then look at Ridley’s argument for reading Nietzsche’s later view of tragedy in Twilight of the Idols as exhibiting the same failure, and explain our reasons for rejecting that account. These reasons will then lead us, indeed force us, to say something about Nietzsche’s later view of art more generally. 

 The session will be held online.

 

Tue 29 Nov, '22
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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series
S0.28

Guest Speaker: Charlotte Knowles (University of Groningen)

Title: 'How to Dress Like a Feminist: Towards a Relational Account of Complicity'

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