Friends at the University of Oregon have put together a free and open compendium of 1,573 videos on philosophical themes at philinstall.uoregon.edu. The videos are indexed by author (Abelard through Žižek) and topic.
This will no doubt prove an invaluable resource for many of us. Thanks to Russell Duvernoy, Katherine Logan, and Christy Reynolds for their curatorial work, and to Naomi Zack for conceiving and heading up such a great project.
I’ve recently landed upon Le Perfectionnisme (philosophique) at stanley-cavell.org, a site I take to be managed at least in part by Pascal Duval. It’s brimming with Cavell-related materials in French and English, and home also to some very interesting original content. Happy reading! CL
Hurrah! The poster and program for the upcoming Foucault / Wittgenstein conference in Paris are now available (see below). A detailed description of the conference (in French) is available here. Many thanks to Pascale Gillot & Daniele Lorenzini for all their hard work coordinating what’s sure to be a marvelous event. Note that all interested persons are welcome to attend, subject to availability.
Colloque international
FOUCAULT / WITTGENSTEIN
SUBJECTIVITÉ ET POLITIQUE
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris
salle Cavaillès (1er étage, esc. C)
Vendredi 7 juin 2013
9h30 – Accueil et introduction par Sandra Laugier
9h45 – Présentation du colloque par Pascale Gillot et Daniele Lorenzini
Matinée
Présidence : Pascale Gillot (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
10h00 – Arnold I. Davidson (University of Chicago/Università Ca’Foscari Venezia)
Ouverture
10h15 – Judith Revel (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Le soi, l’autre et le « nous » à partir de Foucault et Wittgenstein
11h00 – Pause
11h15 – Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Wittgenstein and Foucault on ethics and subjectivity
12h00 – Élise Marrou (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Retour au sol raboteux des pratiques : le statut de la déviance, de Foucault à Wittgenstein
Après-midi
Présidence : Frédéric Gros (LIS, Université Paris-Est Créteil)
14h45 – Matteo Vagelli (Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Wittgenstein après Foucault : Discours, Style et Grammaire dans la formation du sujet
15h30 – James Williams (University of Dundee)
Subjectivity, time and signs in Foucault and Wittgenstein
16h15 – Pause
16h30 – Pour une philosophie analytique de la politique
table ronde présidée par Arnold I. Davidson, avec
Sandra Laugier (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Daniele Lorenzini (LIS, Université Paris-Est Créteil/Sapienza Università di Roma)
Samedi 8 juin 2013
9h30 – Accueil des participants
Matinée
Présidence : Daniele Lorenzini (LIS, Université Paris-Est Créteil/Sapienza Università di Roma)
9h45 – Laura Cremonesi (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
À partir de Foucault et Wittgenstein : un renouvellement de la pratique éthique est-il possible ?
10h30 – Orazio Irrera (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
“Work on philosophy is really more a work on oneself”. Le travail de soi sur soi chez Foucault et Wittgenstein
11h15 – Pause
11h30 – Marc Pavlopoulos (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Souci de soi et pratiques de subjectivation : Foucault, Wittgenstein, Descombes
12h15 – Pierre Fasula (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
La critique wittgensteinienne de Foucault par Vincent Descombes
Après-midi
Présidence : Jean-François Braunstein (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
14h45 – Pascale Gillot (PhiCo/EXeCO, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Foucault / Wittgenstein : une subjectivité sans sujet ?
15h30 – Elisabetta Basso (Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung, Technische Universität Berlin)
La psychologie comme « champ des décisions » : déclinations et enjeux de l’antipsychologisme chez Foucault
16h15 – Pause
16h30 – Sabine Plaud (PhiCo/EXeCO, PSL Research University)
Le gouvernement, les savants et la tribu sans âme : peut-on penser une forme de vie pour des automates ?
(Wittgenstein, RPP1, §96)
17h15 – Discussion générale
Colloque organisé par le Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne
EA 3562 PhiCo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
en collaboration avec l’EA 4395 LIS (Université Paris-Est Créteil)
et avec mf / materiali foucaultiani
Toute personne intéressée est cordialement invitée, dans la limite des places disponibles.
Contacts : Daniele Lorenzini (d.lorenzini@sns.it), Pascale Gillot (gillot.pascale@wanadoo.fr)
Please see below for more information on a two-week visiting research fellowship at the University of Sheffield.
Visiting Research Fellowship, in conjunction with the Leverhulme network project on ‘Idealism and Pragmatism: Convergence or Contestation?’
Applications are invited for a two-week visiting research fellowship at the Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield. The fellowship is funded as part of the Leverhulme network project on ‘Idealism and Pragmatism’, and is to be held around the period of the first workshop, 25th-26th October 2013.The fellowship will cover travel, subsistence and accommodation for a two-week period. The fellow will be expected to attend the workshop, and also to present their work at some point during their stay.
The successful applicant should have completed their PhD by the time of the fellowship, and should have a demonstrable interest in the themes of the project.
Applications from both junior and senior scholars in the field are equally welcome.To apply, please send (1) a CV (2) a writing sample (3) a short statement of how your work relates to the themes of the project (no more than 1000 words). If possible, please submit this material electronically to the project administrator, Kim Redgrave <k.redgrave@sheffield.ac.uk> by 4.00pm on Monday 20th May 2013. If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Ms Redgrave for further instructions.
For any academic queries, please contact Robert Stern <r.stern@sheffield.ac.uk>
For further details of the project, see: http://idealismandpragmatism.org/events
For details of the 2013 Sheffield workshop, see: http://idealismandpragmatism.org/workshop-2013
For details of the Sheffield University Philosophy department, see: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy
Edward T. Duffy, Emeritus Professor of English at Marquette University, has a new book out from Bloomsbury. Read on for a brief description and table of contents.
About Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism
Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to Cavell’s thought.
Illustrated through close readings of Wordsworth and Shelley, and extended discussions of Emerson and Thoreau as well as Cavell, Duffy proposes a Romanticism of persisting cultural relevance and truly trans-Atlantic scope. The turn to romanticism of America’s most distinguished “ordinary-language” philosopher is shown to be tied to the neo-Romantic claim that far from being merely an illustrator of the truths discovered by philosophy, poetry is its equal partner in the instituting of knowledge. This book will be vital reading for anyone interested in Romanticism, Stanley Cavell and the ever-deepening connections between literature and philosophy.
Table Of Contents
1. Stanley Cavell’s Redemptive Reading: A Philosophical Labor in Progress
2. Reading Romanticism
3. A Wordsworthian Calling of Thinking
4. Bursting from a Congregated Might of Vapors: Desire, Expression and Motive in Shelley
5. “The Breath Whose Might I Have Invoked in Song”: Epipsychidion and Adonais
6. Reviewing the Vision of The Triumph of Life / Bibliography / Index
More information can be found at the publisher’s page. The book is available online and through your local bookstore.
Rhys Tranter does a beautiful job writing and curating his arts blog, A Piece of Monologue. He is especially good at letting his readers know what’s up in the world of Beckett and of late there’s been an embarrassment of riches to report.
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SAMUEL BECKETT DIRECTS WAITING FOR GODOT AT RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, WITH RICK CLUCHEY (LEFT) AND GERMAN DIRECTOR WALTER ASMUS (RIGHT OF BECKETT). PHOTOGRAPH: JOHN MINIHAN |
To give you sense of the samplings:
University of Oxford has announced the 2013 schedule for its ongoing Samuel Beckett: Debts & Legacies seminar series. Debts and Legacies is a series of research seminars held in Oxford on the subject of Samuel Beckett and his work. 2013 is the ninth year of the series, which takes place in April, May and June, and the seminars continue to be open to all. A complete program can be found here.
And then, English Theatre Berlin is hosting a panel discussion and reading by Walter Asmus, Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett, on working with Beckett and Beckett’s works (moderated by Gaby Hartel) on May 11. This as part of their May 9-18 celebration of contemporary Irish theater and performance. More information can be found here.
May 17-19, Brighton Festival will feature the World Premiere of “Here All Night,” a musical-theatrical piece celebrating the text and music of Samuel Beckett. The performance will interweave the text and music of Samuel Beckett with original compositions by Paul Clark, drawn from and inspired by Beckett’s works Watt, Malone Dies and The Unnamable: a rare opportunity to discover another facet of Beckett’s work with a virtuoso ensemble. Performance and ticketing details can be found here.
Finally, Arminta Wallace recently interviewed John Hurt on the occasion of his return to Dublin to perform “Krapp’s Last Tape.” The article, which is lovely, can be found here.
Many thanks to Martin Shuster for bringing this to my attention! He and Paola Marrati recently edited the Comparative Literature Issue of Modern Language Notes (V. 127, No. 5, December 2012). Their theme is “Philosophy and New American TV Series.” Readers of this blog will no doubt appreciate the Cavellian key in which they and their authors take it up.
The issue is available in print and online. The Table of Contents is copied below.
MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES (Comparative Literature Issue)
Volume 127, Number 5, December 2012
Philosophy and New American TV Series,. Paola Marrati, Martin Shuster
True Blood, Bon Temps, Louisiana 2008–2012
Popular Cultures, Ordinary Criticism: A Philosophy of Minor Genres
Sandra Laugier, Daniela Ginsburg
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Mad Men and Moral Ambiguity
“Boyd and I Dug Coal Together”: Norms, Persons, and Being Justified in Justified
When Horror Becomes Human: Living Conditions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
From Dream to Invention: The West Wing
ARTICLES
N+2, or a Late Renaissance Poetics of Enumeration
The Calculable, the Incalculable, and the Rest: Kafka’s Virtual Environment
Speaking Silence: Translation in Chahdortt Djavann’s La Muette
Gide, Wilde, and the Death of the Novel
REVIEWS
Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Eli Friedlander (review)
How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy (review)
The Novel After Theory by Judith Ryan (review)
The Literary Kierkegaard by Eric Ziolkowski (review)
American Nietzsche. A History of an Icon and His Ideas by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (review)
The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart (review)
Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission by Leona Toker (review)
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine by Ritchie Robertson (review)
