糖心TV

Location: S 0.21, Social Sciences Building

9:30–10:00 – Arrival 10:00–10:50 (Online) Qingxuan Wang (CUHK) 鈥淔riedrich Nietzsche and the Religions of Decadence鈥�

10:50–11:00 – Break

11:00–11:50 Asmita Roy (Nottingham) 鈥淔oucault鈥檚 Theory on Power and Subjectivity, and an Analysis of Islamophobia in India鈥�

11:50–12:30 – Lunch

12:30–13:20 Nathan Conceicao Silva (Durham) 鈥淭aking Sceptics to Deleuze鈥�

13:20–13:30 – Break

13:30–14:20 Noah Buckle (糖心TV) 鈥淜ant on Gesinnung and the Propensity to Evil鈥�

14:20–14:30 – Break

14:30–15:20 Amelie Baker (Nottingham) 鈥淔oucault, Zen, and the Education System鈥�

15:30–15:40 Break

15:40–16:40 Henry Somers-Hall (RHUL) – Keynote 鈥淭ruth, Meaning, and Resemblance in French Philosophy

Thursday June 13, 2–4pm: Chapter 7: Love and Morality

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��

WiP Week 8 - 'An inheritance to come: Derrida on history, the undecidable future, and the metaphysics of presence' - Efan Owen

The next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 13th June from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Efan Owen will present 'An inheritance to come: Derrida on history, the undecidable future, and the metaphysics of presence'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

In this presentation I will explore the conclusions I came to in a recent essay and the questions they pose for my dissertation. I will give an overview of Derrida鈥檚 understanding of the relationship between that which is already past and that which is yet to come. I will examine here Derrida鈥檚 engagement with Heidegger鈥檚 rejection of a 鈥渕etaphysics of presence,鈥� as well as the specific implications of his own notion of 诲颈蹿蹿茅谤补苍肠别, in the construction of meaning. Derrida holds meaning to be ultimately non-present and always referring to a presence beyond itself, and at the same time grounded in the material trace which signifies it.

In this sense, a future which is truly futural can only be comprehended as an anticipation of that which will never arrive. It is nevertheless determined by its origin, or past, in the trace signifier. I will argue that this leads Derrida to an understanding of the future as taking the form of an inheritance of things passed.

Finally, I will suggest that this approach allows Derrida to think of our relationship both to history and to the future in a manner which refutes the rationalism and calculability which characterise Kant and Husserl鈥檚 philosophies of history. In anticipation of my dissertation, I will also suggest that the decidability of inheritance nevertheless leaves it bearing resemblance to the regulative Idea as employed by Kant and Husserl. I will try to examine avenues I might take in exploring these similarities.

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