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

20/10 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:12:59 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 20 Oct '20

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Robert C Miner (Baylor University)

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

03/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:15:26 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 03 Nov '20

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Thomas Nail (University of Denver)

Title: TBC

17/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:18:10 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 17 Nov '20

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick)

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

01/12 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:21:09 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 01 Dec '20

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Wahida Khandar (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Title: 'Sketches of Lived Time'

07/01 5:15pm-7:45pm: Beyond The Punitive Society

Stephen Houlgate — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:31:49 GMT

When: 5:15pm - 7:45pm, Thu, 07 Jan '21

Where: 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

19/01 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:48:48 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 19 Jan '21

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Manon Garcia (Harvard Society of Fellows)

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

20/01 5:30pm-7pm: Biopolitics Reading Group

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:56:26 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Wed, 20 Jan '21

Where: MS Teams

'Biopolitics and Deconstruction'

Guest Speaker: Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick)

03/02 5:30pm-7pm: Biopolitics Reading Group

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:58:19 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Wed, 03 Feb '21

Where: MS Teams

'Transgressive Resistance and Biopolitics'

Guest Speaker: Guilel Treiber (KU Leuven)

09/02 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:51:00 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 09 Feb '21

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Miguel de Beistegui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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

23/02 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:51:35 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 23 Feb '21

Where: Webinar

Speaker: Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge)

Title: 'Kant's Idea of Unity'

03/03 5:30pm-7pm: Biopolitics Reading Group

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 09:01:01 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Wed, 03 Mar '21

Where: MS Teams

'From Biopolitics to Bodypolitics'

Guest Speaker: Karsten Schubert (Freiburg)

09/03 5:30pm-7:15pm: Warwick Post-Kantian European Seminar

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:52:41 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 09 Mar '21

Where: 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'

17/03 5:30pm-7pm: Biopolitics Reading Group

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 09:02:50 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Wed, 17 Mar '21

Where: MS Teams

'The Biopolitics of Mobility'

Guest Speaker: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths)

26/03-27/03: Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2020/21

Stephen Houlgate — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:08:34 GMT

When: Fri, 26 Mar - Sat, 27 Mar '21

Where: Online

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

04/05 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:49:13 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 04 May '21

Where: 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.

03/06 10am-04/06 6pm: Workshop: Genealogy in the Analytic and Continental Traditions

Stephen Houlgate — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:11:16 GMT

When: 10am, Thu, 03 Jun '21 - 6pm, Fri, 04 Jun '21

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.

08/06 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA/CPKEP Joint Event: Naomi Waltham-Smith Book Launch

Stephen Houlgate — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:56:57 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 08 Jun '21

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Naomi Waltham-Smith's new book:

Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham University Press, 2021)

Commentators: Lynn Turner (Goldsmiths), Erin Graff Zivin (University of Southern California), Julie Napolin (The New School), Michael Gallope (Minnesota), and Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick)

With responses by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick)

https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823294879/shattering-biopolitics/

Follow this link to register for the Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOCppzMvG9YekJM2llCNXEiqxiab2oF9

19/10 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:10:05 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 19 Oct '21

Where: MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Michelle Kosch (Cornell)

Title: 'Recognition After Fichte'

02/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:11:56 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 02 Nov '21

Where: MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Tuomo Tiisala (Helsinki)

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

17/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:28:19 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Wed, 17 Nov '21

Where: MS Teams

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

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

30/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:23:28 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 30 Nov '21

Where: MS Teams

Guest Speaker: Samantha Matherne (Harvard)

Title: 'The Normativity of Colour: Phenomenological Perspectives'

25/01 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:54:42 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 25 Jan '22

Where: S0.08/online

Guest Speaker: Mark Wrathall (Oxford)

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

08/02 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:09:57 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 08 Feb '22

Where: 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.

08/03 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:30:09 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 08 Mar '22

Where: 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.

17/05 5:30pm-7pm: Workshop: 'Hegel on Being'

Stephen Houlgate — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:40:15 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 17 May '22

Where: 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)

31/05 5:30pm-7pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:39:31 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 31 May '22

Where: R1.13/online

Guest Speaker: Rachel Cristy (KCL)

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

18/10 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:05:16 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 18 Oct '22

Where: S0.28

Guest Speaker: Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University)

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

01/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:37:43 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 01 Nov '22

Where: 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.

15/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:41:59 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 15 Nov '22

Where: 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.

29/11 5:30pm-7:15pm: Post-Kantian European Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Stephen Houlgate — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:06:08 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7:15pm, Tue, 29 Nov '22

Where: S0.28

Guest Speaker: Charlotte Knowles (University of Groningen)

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