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German idealism and Early 20th Century French Philosophy

German idealism and Early 20th Century French Philosophy

  • Date15 Jun 2016 - 16 Jun 2016
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A CPTRG-supported research event

The last of three workshops on Judgment in 20th Century French Philosophy will be held at Senate House (room 261) on 15-16 June, 2016.  The event is organized by Dr. Henry Somers-Hall and Prof. Nathan Widder, and is part of Dr. Somers-Hall's AHRC Early Career Fellowship

The event is free, but please register here.

Further details on all three workshops can be found here.

 

Workshop Title: German idealism and Early 20th Century French Philosophy

Wednesday, June 15th

12.15 – 13:15 Coffee and welcome

13.15 – 14.00 Flavio Marelli (University of Fribourg), ‘Merleau-Ponty’s account of form and body as a re-appropriation of Kant’

14.15 – 15.00 Anne Clausen (University of Göttingen), ‘Conscience in Kant and Levinas’

15.30 – 17.00 Christine Battersby (University of Warwick), ‘Beauvoir’s Early Passion for Schopenhauer: Of Soap-Bubbles, Disappearance and After-Effects’

19:00 Workshop Dinner

 

Thursday, June 16th

9.30 – 10.15 Coffee

10.15 – 11.45 Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London)

12.00 – 12.45 Masa Kosugi (Goldsmiths, University of London), ‘The Middle Ground Between Two Kinds of Life: Bergson’s Intuition as Overcoming and Retrieval of Kantian Finitude’

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45-14.30 Johannes Niederhauser (University of Warwick), ‘Time and Free Will: A Kantian Response to Bergson’

14.45 – 15.30 Tom Giesbers (Utrecht), ‘Klossowski’s Hamann’

16.00 – 17.30 Len Lawlor (Penn State), ‘The Dualism of Truth and Freedom in Foucault’s Introduction to Kant’s Anthropology’

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