Interesting event at Bristol later in the month, featuring amongst others the inimitable Dan Dennett: info here.
Evolution, intentionality, information…
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New title on Hegel and Deleuze
This edited collection on Hegel and Deleuze (edited by Karen Houle and Jim Vernon) looks pretty interesting – and some reliably quality commentators in there.
Here’s the blurb:
Hegel and Deleuze cannily examines the various resonances and dissonances between these two major philosophers. The collection represents the best in contemporary international scholarship on G. W. F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze, and the contributing authors inhabit the as-yet uncharted space between the two thinkers, collectively addressing most of the major tensions and resonances between their ideas and laying a solid ground for future scholarship. The essays are organized thematically into two groups: those that maintain a firm but nuanced disjunction or opposition between Hegel and Deleuze, and those that chart possible connections, syntheses, or both. As is clear from this range of texts, the challenges involved in grasping, appraising, appropriating, and developing the systems of Deleuze and Hegel are varied and immense. While neither Hegel nor Deleuze gets the last word, the contributors ably demonstrate that partisans of either can no longer ignore the voice of the other.
And here’s the contents (courtesy of Jean-Clet Martin on Ian Buchanan’s “Deleuze” Facebook page):
Part 1. Disjunction/contradiction — 1. At the crossroads of philosophy and religion: Deleuze’s critique of Hegel / Brent Adkins — 2. Negation, disjunction, and a new theory of forces: Deleuze’s critique of Hegel / Nathan Widder — 3. Hegel and Deleuze: difference or contradiction? / Anne Sauvagnargues — 4. The logic of the rhizome in the work of Hegel and Deleuze / Henry Somers-Hall — 5. Actualization: enrichment and loss / Bruce Baugh — 6. Political bodies without organs: on Hegel’s ideal state and Deleuzian micropolitics / Pheng Cheah — 7. Deleuze and Hegel on the logic of relations / Jim Vernon — Part 2. Connection/synthesis — 8. Deleuze and Hegel on the limits of self-determined subjectivity / Simon Lumsden — 9. Desiring-production and spirit: on anti-Oedipus and German idealism / John Russon — 10. Hegel and Deleuze: the storm / Juliette Simont — 11. Limit, ground, judgment– syllogism: Hegel, Deleuze, Hegel, and Deleuze / Jay Lampert –12. Hegel and Deleuze on life, sense, and limit / Emilia Angelova — Part 3. Conjunctive synthesis — 13. A criminal intrigue: an interview with Jean-Clet Martin / Constantin V. Boundas.
Here’s a new word…
“Speleogenesis“, which I came across when looking up “speleology” – which I did because Deleuze said this:
The Presocratics installed thought in the caves, life in the depths. They probed the water and the fire. They made philosophy a strike of the hammer, like Empedocles smashing the statues, the hammer of the geologist, of the speleologist.
(LS, 153)
Maybe we could call a certain kind of philosophy “speleogenetic” – philosophising by digging new caves.
[The hermit] will doubt [...] whether for a philosopher every cave does not have, must not have, an ever deeper cave behind it – a more extensive, stranger, richer world below the surface, an abyss behind every ground, under every ‘groundwork’.
(Nietzsche, BGE, §289)
‘Transdisciplinarity’ workshop @ CRMEP
Info on (I think) the concluding workshop on ‘transdisciplinarity’ in the humanities to be held by the CRMEP at Kingston University:
Now Open for Registration
‘Romantic Transdisciplinarity: Art and the New’
An International Conference organised by the CRMEP as part of its AHRC project on Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities
In collaboration with the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
8–9 May 2013
Venue: Senate House, University of London, Malet Street (http://goo.gl/maps/Sjkmr)
A conference about the transdisciplinary legacies of early German Romanticism in contemporary theory and practice in the arts and humanities
Speakers include:
Howard Caygill (CRMEP, Kingston University)
David Cunningham (English, University of Westminister)
Boris Groys (Slavic Studies, NYU)
Claude Imbert (Philosophy, ENS, Paris)
Gertrud Koch (Film Studies, Free University Berlin)
Olivier Schefer (Aesthetics, Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris 1)
Alison Stone (Philosophy, Lancaster University)
Hito Steyerl (artist, Berlin)
Peter Weibel (ZKM, Karlsruhe)
Registration is *REQUIRED* via: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=2379.
Please note that the fees for the conference – waged £60.00; students & unwaged £20.00; CRMEP students £15.00 – covers tea/coffee, the reception and lunch for both days.
Enquiries to crmep@kingston.ac.uk
Astra Taylor on education
Here’s an interesting talk by filmmaker Astra Taylor on education, home schooling and the heritage of the ‘radical pedagogy’ experiments of the 1960s:
Locke and European philosophy
Conference coming up at LSE. I saw Stella Sandford present a paper at the SEP-FEP conference last year which I seem to recall was material from the preface of Balibar’s book mentioned below, and it was pretty interesting stuff:
‘John Locke and European Philosophy’
Monday 11 March, 6.30 – 8pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well known, but in what sense is John Locke a modern European philosopher?
ETIENNE BALIBAR, Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University; Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris 10 Nanterre and Visiting Professor, Columbia University, in conversation with QUASSIM CASSAM, Professor of Philosophy, Warwick University.
Chair: Stella Sandford, Reader in Modern European Philosophy, CRMEP, Kingston University
This event is organised in anticipation of the publication of Etienne Balibar’s “Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness,” edited and with an Introduction by Stella Sandford (Verso, 2013).
‘Why de Beauvoir Matters’ @ the Ashmolean
Why de Beauvoir Matters with Dr Jonathan Webber (Cardiff University)
Wednesday March 20, 6pm,
Ashmolean Education Centre (St Giles Entrance)
Drinks and nibbles from 17.45
No booking required but please arrive early to ensure you get a seat.
Simone de Beauvoir is a major figure in twentieth century feminist thought. She is often portrayed as merely a follower and minor critic of Sartre, applying his existentialism to the question of gender. This talk will present a different picture. Her work on age and ageing, it will be argued, is significant both as a deep contribution to existentialist thought and as a stimulus to much needed theoretical reflection on this neglected topic.
Dr Jonathan Webber is Reader in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and the translator of Routledge’s edition of Sartre’s The Imaginary.
