Congress 2010
The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its annual conference on October 14 – 16, 2010, in Edmonton at the University of Alberta. A preliminary version of the conference programme is now available. Please signal corrections to Iain Macdonald.
Keynote Speakers
John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Deleuze and Enactive Biology: Towards a New Transcendental Aesthetic”
François Raffoul (Louisiana State University), “The Origins of Responsibility”
Robert Burch (University of Alberta), “‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ Reflections on the Form of a Finite Philosophy”
Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University), “Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx”
Karyn Ball (University of Alberta), “Precarious Civility”
Invited speakers
Sarah Allen (Concordia University), “Levinas on Neutrality: From Ethics to Social Justice”
Jean-François Bissonnette (Université d’Ottawa), « Savoir, pouvoir et inconscient : la critique foucaldienne de la psychanalyse »
Elodie Boublil (McGill University), « La notion de Heimat chez Heidegger : l’Ister de Hölderlin ou le site de l’appropriation (Ereignis) »
Martin Desrosiers (Université de Montréal), « Le zoo adornien »
Maxime Doyon (McGill University), “Husserl’s Idealism Reconsidered”
Vincent Duhamel (Université de Montréal), “Self-Consciousness, Expression and Work in Hegel”
Charlene Elsby (McMaster University), “The Phenomenal Present”
Krystal Kreye (The New School), “Benjamin, Foucault and Historiography”
Justin Marquis (Loyola University Chicago), “Nietzsche’s Cartesian Meditation: A Skeptical Argument in Beyond Good and Evil”
Scott Marratto (University of King’s College), “‘Self-Touching-You’: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida on Double Sensation”
Amhed Abdel Meguid (Emory University), “The Aesthetic Subject and the Place of the Human in Kant: Revisiting the Critique of Judgment in Light of Heidegger’s Nietzsche Lectures”
Daniel Mullin (Institute for Christian Studies), “Politics of the Sublime: Adorno contra Kant and Habermas”
Felix Ó Murchadha (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Phenomenology and Skepticism”
Radu Neculau (University of Windsor), “Hegel, Nietzsche, and Crowd Psychology”
Pierre-François Noppen (Université de Montréal), “The Marxian Model: Materialism and Critique in Adorno”
Christophe Perrin (Université Paris-Sorbonne), « Heidegger ou la défense et l’illustration de Descartes »
Kristin Rodier (University of Alberta), “De Beauvoir and the Possibility of Materialist Feminism”
Xander Selene (Université de Montréal), “A Philosophy that Imitates Art? Theodor W. Adorno’s Configuration-Construction”
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