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:
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”
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: "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 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
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