Events
Warwick Post-Kantian Seminar
The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy organises a series of lectures by external speakers on diverse topics. In the current academic year, we have the following talks:
John Callanan (KCL) – "Varieties of Metacritique"
Beth Lord (Aberdeen) – "Spinoza’s Image of Thought: ratio and the Example of the Fourth Proportional"
Book panel: David Bather Woods (Warwick), Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
Wayne Martin (Essex) – "Reinventing the Will: Recognitive Volitional Practices and Inclusive Legal Agency"
Dan Wolt (Bilkent) – "Nietzsche on Nobility"
Julia Peters (Heidelberg) – "Hegel on the Pain of Being an ‘I’"
Martin Hägglund (Yale) – "The Meaning of Mortality: Rethinking The Makropulos Case"
For details, including information for how to join online, see "Upcoming events" on the right-hand side.
Workshops
At the start of autumn term, the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy organises a workshop to kick off the academic year and welcome new students in the MA Continental Philosophy and other courses. Past topics included: "Does history matter to philosophy?", "What is critique?", "What is (continental) philosophy?".
Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference
The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy has over the years supported the running of the Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, a conference event for post-graduate students from other universities- See their websiteLink opens in a new window for details.
Past events
Warwick Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar 2024-2025
Joe Saunders (Durham) – “What's wrong with the Master? A Critical Analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic”
Andrea Esser (Jena) – “Kant’s Concept of Progress and the Limits of Critical Thinking”
Jensen Suther (Harvard) – “The ‘Work’ of Art: The Artwork as ἐνέργεια in Hegel and Heidegger”
Gregor Moder (Ljubljana) – “Brothers and Sisters. On Hegel’s Reading of Antigone”
Paul Kottmann (New School) – “Ethics and Contemporary Aesthetic Culture”
Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse) – “Getting at the Root of Evil: Kant and Fichte on the Murderer at the Door”
Yohei Kageyama (Kwansei Gakuin) – “Japanese Philosophers Thinking with and against Heidegger:
The Evolution and Dissolution of Ontological Pluralism“
David Bather Woods (Warwick) – “Schopenhauer and the Frankfurt School”
Inga Römer (Freiburg) – “What is a Metaphysics of Dasein? Heidegger after Being and Time”
Warwick Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar 2023-2024
Ellie Anderson (Pomona) – “The Critical Phenomenological Turn“
Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) – “From Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic”
Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick) – “Seeing with the Eyes of Reason, or, Hegelian Conceptual Amelioration”
Timothy Stoll (Warwick) – “Myth and Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy”
Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway) – book workshop on Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant
Sean D. Kelly (Harvard) – “The Proper Dignity of Human Being”
Nicolas de Warren (Penn State) – “The Phenomenology of the After-Life”
Toril Moi (Duke) – “Simone de Beauvoir and the Experience of Otherness”
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) – “The Transcendence of Spinoza's God“
Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame) – “Edith Stein and the Philosophy of Time”
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2022-23
Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University) - "We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume 1 Revisited"
Tobias Keiling (Warwick) - "Gadamer on Openness as Epistemic Virtue"
Maudemarie Clark (University of California) - "Art and Affirmation: Does Nietzsche Overcome his Early Nihilistic Account of Tragedy in his Later Work?"
Charlotte Knowles (Groningen) - "How to Dress Like a Feminist: Towards a Relational Account of Complicity"
Dean Moyer - "Consent and Content: Expressive Validity in Hegel's Theory of Justice"
Thomas Khurana - "Spirit is Artist: On the Aesthetic Dimension of Ethical Life and Why the State is not a Work of Art"
Andreja Novakovic (University of California) - "Hegel on Transformative Experiences"
Alison Stone (Lancaster) - "The Philosophy of Helene Druskowitz"
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2021-22
Michelle Kosch (Cornell) - "Recognition after Fichte"
Tuomo Tiisala (Helsinki) - "Truth, the Whole Truth, and "Politics of Truth": Foucault on the Revaluation of Values"
Johanna Oksala (Loyola University Chicago) - "The Subjects of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault"
Samantha Matherne (Harvard) - "The Normativity of Color: Phenomenological Perspectives"
Mark Wrathall (Oxford) - "The 'Existential' versus the 'Modal' Interpretation of Heidegger's Conception of Death"
Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) - "Understanding Meaning in the History of Philosophy"
Andrew Huddleston (Warwick) - "The Idea of a 'Religion of Art': The Case of Wagner"
Elena Ficara (Paderborn)/Robert Stern (Sheffield) - "Hegel on Being" (Response by Stephen Houlgate)
Rachel Cristy (KCL) - "Nietzsche and William James on Scientism as Fanaticism"
Workshop Genealogy (3-4 June 2021)
Papers by Amy Allen (Penn State), Sacha Golob (KCL), Guy Longworth (Warwick), Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick), Matthieu Queloz (Oxford), Daniel Rodriguez-Navas (New School), Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Groningen), Lee Wilson (Edinburgh)
Conference Beyond the Punitive Society (7 January 2021)
A joint session of Abolition Democracy 13/13 with the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical ThoughtLink opens in a new window with Miguel de Beistegui, Claire Blencowe, Henrique Carvalho, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini, Goldie Osuri, Irene Dal Poz, Federico Testa, and Bernard E. Harcourt.
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2020-2021
Robert C. Miner (Baylor University) - "In the South: Nietzsche and the Homines Religiosi in The Gay Science V"
Thomas Nail (University of Denver) - "Lucretius our Contemporary"
Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick) - "The Rhythm of Democracy - The Pulse of Deconstruction"
Wahida Khandker (Manchester Metropolitan University) - "Sketches of Lived Time"
Manon Garcia (Harvard Society of Fellows) - "Masculinity as an Impasse: Beauvoir's Understanding of Men’s Situation in The Second Sex"
Miguel de Beistegui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - "The Spirit of Revenge and its Political Destiny: Between Spinoza and Nietzsche"
Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge) - "Kant's Idea of Unity"
Fiona Hughes (Essex) - "The Significance of the Use of Relief for the Structure of Intentions in Late Palaeolithic Cave Art"
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse) - "Contested Legacies: Constellations of Terrorism in the Postbellum United States" Response by Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2019-2020
Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research) - "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us". Responses by Andrew Cooper (Warwick) and David Fearn (Warwick)
Stephen Houlgate (Warwick) - "Kant and Hegel on the Antinomies of Reason"
Béatrice Han-Pile (Essex) - "‘The Doing is Everything’: A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche"
Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University) - "Making Sense of Politics: Towards a Deleuzian-Humean Political Theory"
Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick)/David Owen (Southampton) - "Genealogy as Re-Problematization: Autonomy, Aspect-Change and Limits"
Nina Power (Roehampton) - "Philosophies of the Wolf: Hobbes, Freud, and Deleuze & Guattari"
Simone Kotva (Cambridge) - "An Enquiry Concerning Nonhuman Understanding: Philosophy, Ecstasy, and Ecological Thinking"
Upcoming Events
Post-Kantian Seminar - PKEP @ 60 Roundtable
Book launch event: David Bather Woods
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