BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7874@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought DESCRIPTION: 9:30am EST OPENING REMARKS\nScott Shushan\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College\nDr. Renée T. White\, Pr ovost and Professor of Sociology\, The New School\nAlice Crary\, Universit y Distinguished Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Resear ch\n9:45-11:15 PHILOSOPHY AS PEDAGOGY\nKaren Ng (moderator)\, Associate Pr ofessor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt University\nRoy Ben-Shai\, Assistant Pr ofessor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College\nMegan Craig\, Associate Pr ofessor of Philosophy\, Stony Brook University\nJudith Friedlander\, Profe ssor Emerita of Anthropology\, Hunter College\, and former Dean of The New School for Social Research\n11:30-1:00 PHILOSOPHY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD\nSi mona Forti (moderator)\, Professor of Political Philosophy\, Scuola Normal e Superiore\, Pisa\, Italy\nAxel Honneth\, Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities\, Columbia University\nPhilip Kitcher\, John Dewey Profess or Emeritus of Philosophy\, Columbia University\nJoel Whitebook\, Professo r\, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research\n1 :00–2:00pm Lunch Break\n2:00 REFLECTION\nCinzia Arruzza\, Associate Profes sor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research\n2:10-3:50 PHILOSOP HY IN A PLURALIST SPIRIT\nDavid Clinton Wills (moderator)\, Professor\, Ne w York University-Gallatin\nMaría Pía Lara\, Professor and Researcher\, Un iversidad Autónoma Metropolitana\nChiara Bottici\, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies\,The New School fo r Social Research\nLucius Outlaw\, Jr.\, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philo sophy\, Vanderbilt University\nCharles Taylor\, Professor Emeritus of Phil osophy\, McGill University\n4:05-5:35 DEMOCRACY AS A TASK BEFORE US\nDmitr i Nikulin (moderator)\, Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Socia l Research\nSeyla Benhabib\, Eugene Meyer Professor of Philosophy and Poli tical Science. Emerita\, Yale University and Senior Research Fellow\, Colu mbia Law School and Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory\nRain er Forst\, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy\, Goethe Universit y Frankfurt am Main\nNancy Fraser\, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science\, The New School for Social Research\nOrganiz ed by Marcia Morgan and Scott Shushan in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. \n\n\n\nTickets: htt ps://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221015 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall @ 63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A LIFE IN THOUGHT: A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-life-in-thought-a-seri es-of-conversations-in-celebration-of-the-life-and-work-of-richard-j-berns tein/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\n9:3 0am EST OPENING REMARKS
\nScott Shushan\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College
p>\n Dr. Renée T. White\, Provost and Professor of Soci
ology\, The New School Alice Crary\, University D
istinguished Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research<
/p>\n 9:45-11:15 PHILOSOPHY AS PEDAGOGY
\nRoy Ben-Shai\, Assistant
Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College
\nMegan Cra
ig\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, Stony Brook University\nJudith Friedlander\, Professor Emerita of Anthropol
ogy\, Hunter College\, and former Dean of The New School for Social Resear
ch
11:30-1:00 PHILOSOPHY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD< /em>
\nSimona Forti (moderator)\, Professor of Poli
tical Philosophy\, Scuola Normale Superiore\, Pisa\, Italy
\n
Axel Honneth\, Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities\, C
olumbia University
\nPhilip Kitcher\, John Dewey Pro
fessor Emeritus of Philosophy\, Columbia University
\nJoel Wh
itebook\, Professor\, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalyt
ic Training and Research
1:00–2:00pm Lunch Break
\n2:00 REFLECTION
\nCinzia Arruzza\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, Th e New School for Social Research
\n2:10-3:50 PHILOSOPHY IN A PLURALIST SPIRIT
\nDavid Clinton Wills (m
oderator)\, Professor\, New York University-Gallatin
\nMaría
Pía Lara\, Professor and Researcher\, Universidad Autónoma Metrop
olitana
\nChiara Bottici\, Associate Professor of Ph
ilosophy and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies\,The New School for
Social Research
\nLucius Outlaw\, Jr.\, W. Alton Jon
es Professor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt University
\nCharles
Taylor\, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy\, McGill University
4:05-5:35 DEMOCRACY AS A TASK BEFORE US
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\nSeyla Benhabib\, Euge
ne Meyer Professor of Philosophy and Political Science. Emerita\, Yale Uni
versity and Senior Research Fellow\, Columbia Law School and Columbia Cent
er for Contemporary Critical Theory
\nRainer Forst\,
Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy\, Goethe University Frankfur
t am Main
\nNancy Fraser\, Henry A. and Louise Loeb
Professor of Political and Social Science\, The New School for Social Rese
arch
Organized by Marcia Morgan and Scott Shushan in c ollaboration with the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Socia l Research.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7877@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/103578 DESCRIPTION:The New School for Social Research Philosophy Department is hos ting our annual Graduate Student Conference April 13-15th 2023 in person i n New York City.\nThis year’s topic is Textures of Change: Social Imaginar ies\, Narratives\, and the Possibility of Politics.\nKeynote Speakers:\nMa ría Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)\nFanny Söderbäck (Södert örn University)\nEva Von Redecker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)\nIt has become common for political theorists and philosophers to insist on the n ecessity of new imaginaries and narratives. Crises of authority\, financia l meltdowns\, and environmental disasters compel us to look for alternativ e frameworks and practices. While the urgency of this claim is undeniable\ , the conceptual ground for the creation of new imaginaries and narratives is still unclear. How do we define imaginaries and narratives in relation to our political and social life? How can they become normative and gener ate conceptual and practical shifts? And who is in a position to shape\, d irect\, and take ownership of these emergent conceptions?\nThis conference focuses on the current debate on political imaginaries and narratives to investigate some of these questions. As a starting point\, we propose to c hallenge standard Marxist or epistemological approaches to the topic that either interpret imaginaries and narratives as ideological projections (a product of false consciousness) or merely as individual\, cognitive facult ies. Rather\, we suggest thinking about imaginaries and narratives as larg er sensuous and embodied practices that re-orient material structures of d omination and allow for a reflective rearticulation of collective demands. In particular\, we set out to clarify: the meaning of “imaginaries” and/o r “narratives” as forms of sense-making\; their ability to shift existing discourses and power relations\; the way in which they foster different wa ys of feeling\, seeing\, acting-in\, and experiencing the world in a time of crisis\; the way in which they are embedded in artistic and literary pr actices\; and the way in which they address—or fail to address—marginalize d subjects.\nWe invite papers that focus on the concepts of “social imagin ary” and “narrative\,” as well as on the connection between the two\, and on their political and ethical implications. It is our conviction that a c ritical understanding of these concepts can only emerge from attending to how they are practically embodied and situated in our practices. In this s pirit\, we welcome\, in addition to papers aimed at conceptual clarificati on\, papers that provide specific accounts of alternative forms of praxis\ , including (but not limited to) leftist\, feminist\, anti-racist\, decolo nial\, abolitionist\, indigenous\, environmentalist\, and utopian imaginar ies and narratives.\nWe are accepting submissions of up to 4000 words. Ple ase also submit a brief academic bio.\nPlease contact socialimaginarynarra tive@gmail.com with any queries or submissions.\nThe deadline is January 3 rd\, 2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230416 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School Philosophy Dept @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries\, Narratives\, and the Possi bility of Politics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/textures-of-change-socia l-imaginaries-narratives-and-the-possibility-of-politics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe New School for Social Research Philosophy Department is ho sting our annual Graduate Student Conference April 13-15th 2023 in person in New York City.
\nThis year’s topic is Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries\, Narratives\, and the Possibility of Politics.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nMaría Pía Lar a (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
\nFanny Söderbäck (< em>Södertörn University)
\nEva Von Redecker (Humboldt-Unive rsität zu Berlin)
\nIt has become common for political theorist s and philosophers to insist on the necessity of new imaginaries and narra tives. Crises of authority\, financial meltdowns\, and environmental disas ters compel us to look for alternative frameworks and practices. While the urgency of this claim is undeniable\, the conceptual ground for the creat ion of new imaginaries and narratives is still unclear. How do we define i maginaries and narratives in relation to our political and social life? Ho w can they become normative and generate conceptual and practical shifts? And who is in a position to shape\, direct\, and take ownership of these e mergent conceptions?
\nThis conference focuses on the current debate on political imaginaries and narratives to investigate some of these ques tions. As a starting point\, we propose to challenge standard Marxist or e pistemological approaches to the topic that either interpret imaginaries a nd narratives as ideological projections (a product of false consciousness ) or merely as individual\, cognitive faculties. Rather\, we suggest think ing about imaginaries and narratives as larger sensuous and embodied pract ices that re-orient material structures of domination and allow for a refl ective rearticulation of collective demands. In particular\, we set out to clarify: the meaning of “imaginaries” and/or “narratives” as forms of sen se-making\; their ability to shift existing discourses and power relations \; the way in which they foster different ways of feeling\, seeing\, actin g-in\, and experiencing the world in a time of crisis\; the way in which t hey are embedded in artistic and literary practices\; and the way in which they address—or fail to address—marginalized subjects.
\nWe invite papers that focus on the concepts of “social imaginary” and “narrative\,” as well as on the connection between the two\, and on their political and ethical implications. It is our conviction that a critical understanding o f these concepts can only emerge from attending to how they are practicall y embodied and situated in our practices. In this spirit\, we welcome\, in addition to papers aimed at conceptual clarification\, papers that provid e specific accounts of alternative forms of praxis\, including (but not li mited to) leftist\, feminist\, anti-racist\, decolonial\, abolitionist\, i ndigenous\, environmentalist\, and utopian imaginaries and narratives.
\nWe are accepting submissions of up to 4000 words. Pl ease also submit a brief academic bio.
\nPlease contact socialimagin arynarrative@gmail.com with any queries or submissions.
\nThe deadli ne is January 3rd\, 2023
\nThe New York German Idealism Workshop is pleased to announce the first talk of the seme ster. Alison Stone (Lancaster University) will be giving a talk ent itled\, “Bettina von Arnim’s Romantic Philosophy in Die Günderode” on September 17 from 10am-12pm EST. Giulia Valpione ( Università degli Studi di Padova) will be providing comments.
\nJoin Zoom Meeting https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/93096095303?pwd=ZjVWaTdLZ0VlNTlPUHFuWmJDVE9D Zz09
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\nPlease email nygermanidealism@gmail.com to request the pa
per (and join our listserv)\, which has already been distributed (as of 9/
8/21).
The second ta lk of the semester will be by Elisa Magrì (Boston College)\, who wi ll be giving a talk entitled\, “Sedimentation and Ethical Memory in Hegel’ s Philosophy of Spirit.” The talk will take place on October 15 fro m 4:30-6:30pm EST.
\nA Zoom link will be provided in advance. Please stay tuned for a poster containing all the events for the fall sem ester.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7855@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/694606637032423424/92322-robert-stern DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce that the first workshop of the semes ter will take place in person on Friday\, September 23rd from *4-6pm* (ple ase note the change in the usual time). Robert Stern (University of Sheffi eld) will be giving a talk entitled\, “Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues.” Please note that the talk will take pl ace at The New School\, Room M104 (The Bark Room)\, Sheila C. Johnson Desi gn Center (The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center is on the southwest corner of 5th ave and 13th street)\nTo attend the talk in person you will need to be up-to-date with vaccinations and boosters and set up a CLEAR Health Pa ss account in advance. Directions for visitor access are below.\nThe event has been organized by the Wittgenstein Workshop.\nAbstract: This paper dr aws a contrast between Hegel and MacIntyre\, treating both as post-Kantian perfectionists. The claim is that while Hegel treats the good life as som ething found\, and to be implemented in the rational state\, MacIntyre tre ats it as something to be sought. This difference\, it is argued\, is refl ected in their respective accounts of the virtues: for Hegel\, the key vir tue becomes rectitude\, whereas for MacIntyre a wider range of virtues is required\, to make this quest for the good achievable. Using the character s of Walt and Travis from Paris\, Texas to illustrate the argument\, it is suggested that the MacIntyrean option is to be preferred.\nGUEST AND VISI TOR ACCESS AND VACCINATION POLICY\nGuests and visitors must be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations\, including a booster when eligible.\nBeg inning Monday\, August 15\, The New School will use CLEAR’S Health Pass\, an online tool that safely and simply verifies proof of COVID-19 vaccinati on\, to issue guest passes. The CLEAR Health Pass replaces on-site manual vaccination checking and physical guest passes. CLEAR accounts should be s et up in advance of arrival on campus and will remain active for a month\, requiring only a selfie to reactivate. Details and instructions about cre ating and setting up a CLEAR account can be found on our website.\nThe Wel come Center Visitors Desk will remain open in a limited capacity to suppor t the guests who may not be able to use CLEAR.\nBefore coming to campus\, guests must verify vaccination records with the university.\nIf visitors a re all of the below:\n\n18 years of age or older.\nOr\, are under 18 years of age and visiting campus with someone over 18.\nHave access to a mobile device.\nHave proof of vaccination accepted by CLEAR\nDomestic: Pictures of CDC card and Smart QR Codes\nInternational: EU Digital COVID Certificat ion (DCC) and UK National Health Service (NHS) COVID Pass.\nHave a picture ID with the name matching the name on the vaccination record.\n\nIf visit ors are at least one of the below:\n\nUnder 18 years of age coming alone. \nDo not have access to a mobile device.\nHave proof of vaccination that i s not accepted by CLEAR (e.g.\, other countries than the US\, UK\, EU).\nD o not have a picture ID with the name matching the name on the vaccination record.\nCannot create or use a CLEAR account.\n\nUse CLEAR to verify vac cination records and receive a guest pass in the app. \nWe recommend creat ing and verifying your account in advance of coming to campus. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T180000 GEO:+40.735274;-73.994553 LOCATION:New School M104 (The Bark Room)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center @ 66 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtue s. Robert Stern (U Sheffield) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/found-or-sought-hegel-vs -macintyre-on-the-good-life-and-the-virtues-robert-stern-u-sheffield/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWe are excite d to announce that the first workshop of the semester will take place i n person on Friday\, September 23rd from *4-6pm* (please note the change in the usual time). Robert Stern (University of Sh effield) will be giving a talk entitled\, “Found or Sought? Hegel vs MacIn tyre on the Good Life and the Virtues.” Please note that the talk will tak e place at The New School\, Room M104 (The Bark Room)\, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center is on the southwest cor ner of 5th ave and 13th street)
\nTo attend the talk in person you w ill need to be up-to-date with vaccinations and boosters and set up a C LEAR Health Pass account in advance. Directions for visitor access are below.
\nThe event has been organized by the Wittgenstein Worksh op.
\nAbstract: This paper draws a contrast between Hegel and MacIntyre\, treating both as post-Kantian perfectionists. The claim i s that while Hegel treats the good life as something found\, and to be imp lemented in the rational state\, MacIntyre treats it as something to be so ught. This difference\, it is argued\, is reflected in their respective ac counts of the virtues: for Hegel\, the key virtue becomes rectitude\, wher eas for MacIntyre a wider range of virtues is required\, to make this ques t for the good achievable. Using the characters of Walt and Travis from Paris\, Texas to illustrate the argument\, it is suggested that the M acIntyrean option is to be preferred.
\nGuests and visitors must be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations\, including a booster when eligible.
\nBeginning Monday\, August 15\, The New School will use CLEAR’S Health Pass\, an online tool t hat safely and simply verifies proof of COVID-19 vaccination\, to issue gu est passes. The CLEAR Health Pass replaces on-site manual vaccination c hecking and physical guest passes. CLEAR accounts should be set up in advance of arrival on campus and will remain active for a month\, requirin g only a selfie to reactivate. Details and instructions about creating and setting up a CLEAR account can be found on our websit e.
\nThe Welcome Center Visitors Desk will remain open in a limite d capacity to support the guests who may not be able to use CLEAR.
\nBefore coming to campus\, guests must verify vaccination records with the university.
\nIf visitors are all of th e below:
\nI f visitors are at least one of the below:
\nUse CLEAR to verify vaccination records and receive a guest pass in the app.
\nWe recommend cr eating and verifying your account in advance of coming to campus.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7875@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nAs a specific form of rights insecurity the revocabi lity of reproductive rights manifests contradictory understandings (privat ive and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.\nI ask how and w hy we should understand reproductive rights as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined vocabulary that includes conditionality\, exceptionality\, and disqualifying qualifi cation.\nI ask: what kind of grammar might help us understand more specifi cally how the concurrent action of conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, security\, necropower\, and neoliberal expe ctation) coordinate together in relation to reproductive rights-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combinations of power also produce a mutual disrupti veness\, even auto-critique\, manifesting as conflictual embodiment.\nExte rnal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined h ere: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.\n \n Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (an d booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.\nTickets: ht tps://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher#rsvp. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Revokable Rights and their Grammar of Power: Post Roe\, Post Foucau lt. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern U) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/revokable-rights-and-the ir-grammar-of-power-post-roe-post-foucault-penelope-deutscher-northwestern -u/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nAbstr act:
\nAs a specific form of rights insecurity the revocabi lity of reproductive rights manifests contradictory understandings (privat ive and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.
\nI ask ho w and why we should understand reproductive rights as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined voc abulary that includes conditionality\, exceptionality\, and disqualifying qualification.
\nI ask: what kind of grammar might help us understan d more specifically how the concurrent action of conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, security\, necropower\, and n eoliberal expectation) coordinate together in relation to reproductive rig hts-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combinations of power also produce a m utual disruptiveness\, even auto-critique\, manifesting as conflictual emb odiment.
\nExternal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-acces s/?open=visitors.
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Audience members must show proof o f a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher#rs vp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,language\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutsche r#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar DESCRIPTION:Book panel: Anat Matar\, The Poverty of Ethics (Verso books 2 022)\nParticipants:\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)\nSimon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at NSSR) \nRaef Zreik (Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School\, and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College)\n \nAbstract:\nIt is a common a ssumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstr act moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atro cities\; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards pa rticular kinds of victims\, while totally ignoring others.\nThe liberal We st\, in particular\, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western oppressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to their Wester n equivalents.\nThe gratification of holding the moral high ground consist ently serves as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to sh ore up the existing order.\nIn The Poverty of Ethics\, philosopher and act ivist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equa lity\, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustice.\nAppealing to philos ophical ideas on the essence of language\, Matar shows how the ethos of th e Left\, as it has evolved over years\, underlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, colonization and m ilitarization\, protests against exploitation and the capitalist order\, t he feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all these are p rimarily motivated by a deep understanding of Left heritage rather than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moralit\nTickets: https://event.newschool. edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium Book panel: Anat Matar “The Poverty of Ethics ” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-bo ok-panel-anat-matar-the-poverty-of-ethics/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nBook panel: Anat Matar\, The Poverty of Ethics (Verso books 2022)
\nParticipants:
\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)
\nSim on Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at NSSR)
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Abstract:
It is a common assumption that ethics mus t serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atrocities\; ethical sensitiv ity and compassion have been expressed towards particular kinds of victims \, while totally ignoring others.
\nThe liberal West\, in particular \, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western op pressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to their Western equivalents.
\nThe gratification of holding the moral high ground consistently serve s as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to shore up the existing order.
\nIn The Poverty of Ethics\, philosopher and activis t Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equality \, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an e thical life under conditions of global injustice.
\nAppealing to phi losophical ideas on the essence of language\, Matar shows how the ethos of the Left\, as it has evolved over years\, underlies and gradually forms t he basis for ethics.
\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, coloniza tion and militarization\, protests against exploitation and the capitalist order\, the feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all t hese are primarily motivated by a deep understanding of Left heritage rath er than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moralit
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatm atar.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7964@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U\,New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/708636328395472896/21523-james-kreine s DESCRIPTION:15 Feb\, 4pm:\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)\nFrom Shapeles s Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously \n@ The New School\, Room L502\, at 2 W 13th Street\nGuests and visitors p olicies at the New School can be accessed via this website. You will have to download CLEAR and upload proof of vaccination or the results of a rapi d test. Please try to arrive 15 minutes earlier so we can help you in case of complications.\n\nFeb 24:\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)\nGrounds and Limits o f Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\n@ Columbia\n\nMar 3:\nHeikki Ika heimo\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique\n@ Zoom\n\nMar 24:\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum\n@ Columbia\n\nApr 11:\nKarin de Boer\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason A mount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?\n@ Columbia\n\nApr 15\ , 4pm:\nEva von Redecker\nCo-sponsored by the New School Graduate Student Conference\n@ The New School\n\nApr 21:\nGiulia Battistoni\nNAture\, Life\ , Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in J onas’ Philosophical Biology\n@ The New School\n \n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T180000 GEO:+40.735225;-73.994325 LOCATION:The New School L502 @ 2 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Shapeless Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously. James Kreines (Claremont McKenna) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/german-idealism-workshop -3/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n15 Feb\, 4pm:
\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
\nFrom Shapeless Abyss To wards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
\n@ The New School\, Room L502\, at 2 W 13th Street
\nGuests and visito rs policies at the New School can be accessed via this w ebsite. You will have to download CLEAR and upload proof of vaccinatio n or the results of a rapid test. Please try to arrive 15 minutes earlier so we can help you in case of complications.
\nFeb 24:
\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)
\nGrounds and Limits of Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx
\n@ Columbia
\nMar 3:
\nHeik ki Ikaheimo
\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique
\n@ Zoom< /p>\n
Mar 24:
\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)
\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 11:
\nKarin de Boer
\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure R eason Amount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?
\n@ Colum bia
\nApr 15\, 4pm:
\nEva von Redecker
\nCo-spon sored by the New School Graduate Student Conference
\n@ The New Scho ol
\nApr 21:
\nGiulia Battistoni
\nNAture\, Life \, Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in Jonas’ Philosophical Biology
\n@ The New School
\n\n
< /p>\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,Hegel\,idealism\,Spinoza END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7916@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U\,New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/707532268699320320 DESCRIPTION:15 Feb\, 4pm:\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)\nFrom Shapeles s Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously \n@ The New School\n\nFeb 24:\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)\nGrounds and Limits o f Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\n@ Columbia\n\nMar 3:\nHeikki Ika heimo\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique\n@ Zoom\n\nMar 24:\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum\n@ Columbia\n\nApr 11:\nKarin de Boer\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason A mount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?\n@ Columbia\n\nApr 15\ , 4pm:\nEva von Redecker\nCo-sponsored by the New School Graduate Student Conference\n@ The New School\n\nApr 21:\nGiulia Battistoni\nNAture\, Life\ , Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in J onas’ Philosophical Biology\n@ The New School DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T183000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T163000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:New School/Columbia @ New York\, NY\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T163000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T163000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:German Idealism Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/german-idealism-workshop -2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\n15 Feb\, 4pm:
\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
\nFrom Shapeless Abyss To wards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
\n@ The New School
\nFeb 24:
\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)
\nGrounds and Limits of Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx
\n@ Columbia
\nMar 3:
\nHeikki Ikaheimo
\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique
\n@ Zoom
\nMar 24:
\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)
\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 11:
\nKarin de Boer
\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Amount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 15\ , 4pm:
\nEva von Redecker
\nCo-sponsored by the New School Gra duate Student Conference
\n@ The New School
\nApr 21:< /p>\n
Giulia Battistoni
\nNAture\, Life\, Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in Jonas’ Philosophical Biolog y
\n@ The New School
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7939@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/benjaminmorgan DESCRIPTION:In 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplinary research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures function and might function better. He imagined an institute “in which philosophers \, sociologists\, economists\, historians\, and psychologists are brought together in permanent collaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institute would not work with a single theory but would let data lead to new hypothe ses (Horkheimer 1993\, 10). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues rare ly lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically groun ded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Horkh eimer’s and Adorno’s history of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialectic o f Enlightenment\, with current research on the development of early human cultures by Richard Wrangham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Joseph Henrich and Cecilia Heyes. The comparison with recent research in anthrop ology\, sociology\, philosophy\, and cognitive science reveals some of the deep conceptual commitments that limit Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s focus on instrumental reason and conceptual violence. By contrast\, current approa ches jointly suggest that human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded\; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; that learning occurs in context through imitation\; and that customs and insti tutions develop contingently and by accident through processes of cooperat ion and collaboration. These new insights invite a radical re-thinking of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The res ulting picture of environmentally embedded process of cultural evolution i s a first step towards revitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of the early Frankfurt School\, and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\, an d sustainable routes such critique can take in the 21st century.\n \n \nBi o:\n \nBenjamin Morgan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature a t the University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of Worcester College. In 2019\, and 2020/21 he was also Visiting Associate Professor of German at Harvard University. He is author of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and t he Modern Western Self (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, and numerous articles on mode rnist literature\, film\, and philosophy. He edited\, with Carolin Duttlin ger and Anthony Phelan\, Walter Benjamins Anthropologisches Denken (Rombac h\, 2012)\, and with Sowon Park and Ellen Spolsky a Special Issue of Poeti cs Today on “Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017). DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultu ral Evolution. Benjamin Morgan URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rethinking-critique-dial ectic-of-enlightenment-and-models-of-cultural-evolution-benjamin-morgan/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIn 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplinary research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures function and might function bette r. He imagined an institute “in which philosophers\, sociologists\, econom ists\, historians\, and psychologists are brought together in permanent co llaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institute would not work with a si ngle theory but would let data lead to new hypotheses (Horkheimer 1993\, 1 0). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues rarely lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically grounded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s his tory of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialectic of Enlightenment\, with c urrent research on the development of early human cultures by Richard Wran gham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Joseph Henrich and Cecilia Hey es. The comparison with recent research in anthropology\, sociology\, phil osophy\, and cognitive science reveals some of the deep conceptual commitm ents that limit Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s focus on instrumental reason and conceptual violence. By contrast\, current approaches jointly suggest tha t human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded\; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; that learning occurs in cont ext through imitation\; and that customs and institutions develop continge ntly and by accident through processes of cooperation and collaboration. T hese new insights invite a radical re-thinking of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The resulting picture of enviro nmentally embedded process of cultural evolution is a first step towards r evitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of the early Frankfurt School\ , and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\, and sustainable routes suc h critique can take in the 21st century.
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Benjamin Morgan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of W orcester College. In 2019\, and 2020/21 he was also Visiting Associate Pro fessor of German at Harvard University. He is author of On Becoming God: L ate Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, a nd numerous articles on modernist literature\, film\, and philosophy. He e dited\, with Carolin Duttlinger and Anthony Phelan\, Walter Benjamins Anth ropologisches Denken (Rombach\, 2012)\, and with Sowon Park and Ellen Spol sky a Special Issue of Poetics Today on “Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017).
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7992@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U\,New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/post/712945936965517312/41123-karin-de-boe r DESCRIPTION:15 Feb\, 4pm:\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)\nFrom Shapeles s Abyss Towards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously \n@ The New School\n\nFeb 24:\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)\nGrounds and Limits o f Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\n@ Columbia\n\nMar 3:\nHeikki Ika heimo\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique\n@ Zoom\n\nMar 24:\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum\n@ Columbia\n\nApr 11:\nKarin de Boer\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason A mount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?\n@ Columbia\n\nApr 15\ , 4pm:\nEva von Redecker\nCo-sponsored by the New School Graduate Student Conference\n@ The New School\n\nApr 21:\nGiulia Battistoni\nNAture\, Life\ , Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in J onas’ Philosophical Biology\n@ The New School DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T183000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Columbia U Hamilton 602 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Does Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Amount to an A Priori History o f Rational Cosmology? Karin de Boer (KU Leuven) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/does-kants-antinomy-of-p ure-reason-amount-to-an-a-priori-history-of-rational-cosmology-karin-de-bo er-ku-leuven/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n15 Feb\, 4pm:
\nJames Kreines (Claremont McKenna)
\nFrom Shapeless Abyss To wards Self-Developing Thought: Taking Hegel on Spinoza Seriously
\n@ The New School
\nFeb 24:
\nGeorg Spoo (Freiburg)
\nGrounds and Limits of Immanent Critique: Kant\, Hegel\, Marx
\n@ Columbia
\nMar 3:
\nHeikki Ikaheimo
\nHegel\, Humanity\, and Social Critique
\n@ Zoom
\nMar 24:
\nStephen Howard (KU Leuven)
\nKant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 11:
\nKarin de Boer
\nDoes Kant’s Antinomy of Pure Reason Amount to an A Priori History of Rational Cosmology?
\n@ Columbia
\nApr 15\ , 4pm:
\nEva von Redecker
\nCo-sponsored by the New School Gra duate Student Conference
\n@ The New School
\nApr 21:< /p>\n
Giulia Battistoni
\nNAture\, Life\, Organizm: The Legacy of Romanticism and Classical German Philosophy in Jonas’ Philosophical Biolog y
\n@ The New School
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8067@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:still scheduled\, but zoom link for those who can’t travel: htt ps://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/8479688193\nThroughout the 21st century\, philoso phers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with the hateful\ , coercive\, dehumanizing\, and deadly. In particular\, ‘non-ideal’ philos ophers of language question whether received conceptual toolkits from phil osophy of language manage to make contact with our non-ideal world at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgensteinian p erspective. Drawing on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer\, Avner Baz\, Alice Crary\, Cora Diamond\, and Toril Moi\, I argue that non-ideal philo sophers of language neutralize their ideology-critical bite when they pres ume an authoritative force for their words by virtue of a normatively neut ral conception of reason. This neutralization is driven and sustained by a n idle picture of language that isolates our words from the activities int o which they are woven. To make discursive phenomena available in their po litical import\, we philosophers of language must acknowledge our own non- neutral involvement in the very discursive practices we’re theorizing – an d this will require us to relinquish the entitlement to impose authoritati ve requirements on language through theories of meaning.\nTo illustrate th e need for normatively non-neutral methods in philosophical practice\, I f ocus on cases where philosophers’ curious gaze treats trans people\nas fas cinating objects of knowledge\, as opposed to acknowledging us as interloc utors and recognizing the political stakes of our discursive practices. Wh at inhibits the cultivation of acknowledgement\, of normatively resonant m odes of attention\, is a picture of philosophical theorizing that forbids us from articulating our political solidarities through our work (and thus obfuscates what we ourselves are doing with words when theorizing). The n on-ideal philosopher’s critical concept of idealization\, seen aright in a normatively non-neutral light\, exemplifies the sort of theoretical resou rce that is mobilized by members of marginalized groups to invite such mod es of attention – to shape not only our epistemic resources\, but also our senses of what matters. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Availability of the Non-Ideal: to an Engaged Philosophy of Lang uage. Nikki Ernst (U Pittsburgh) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-availability-of-the- non-ideal-to-an-engaged-philosophy-of-language-nikki-ernst-u-pittsburgh/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nstill schedul ed\, but zoom link for those who can’t travel: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j /8479688193
\nThroughout the 21st century\, philosophers of language have increasingly concerned themselves with the hateful\, coercive\, dehu manizing\, and deadly. In particular\, ‘non-ideal’ philosophers of languag e question whether received conceptual toolkits from philosophy of languag e manage to make contact with our non-ideal world at all. This paper takes up that methodological interest from a Wittgensteinian perspective. Drawi ng on critical interventions by Nancy Bauer\, Avner Baz\, Alice Crary\, Co ra Diamond\, and Toril Moi\, I argue that non-ideal philosophers of langua ge neutralize their ideology-critical bite when they presume an authoritat ive force for their words by virtue of a normatively neutral conception of reason. This neutralization is driven and sustained by an idle picture of language that isolates our words from the activities into which they are woven. To make discursive phenomena available in their political import\, we philosophers of language must acknowledge our own non-neutral involveme nt in the very discursive practices we’re theorizing – and this will requi re us to relinquish the entitlement to impose authoritative requirements o n language through theories of meaning.
\nTo illustrate the need for
normatively non-neutral methods in philosophical practice\, I focus on ca
ses where philosophers’ curious gaze treats trans people
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ting objects of knowledge\, as opposed to acknowledging us as interlocutor
s and recognizing the political stakes of our discursive practices. What i
nhibits the cultivation of acknowledgement\, of normatively resonant modes
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rom articulating our political solidarities through our work (and thus obf
uscates what we ourselves are doing with words when theorizing). The non-i
deal philosopher’s critical concept of idealization\, seen aright in a nor
matively non-neutral light\, exemplifies the sort of theoretical resource
that is mobilized by members of marginalized groups to invite such modes o
f attention – to shape not only our epistemic resources\, but also our sen
ses of what matters.
Anja Jauernig’s recently published The World According to Kant (Oxford \, 2021) defends an interpretation of Kant’s critical idealism as an ontol ogical position\, according to which Kant can be considered a genuine idea list about empirical objects\, empirical minds\, and space time. Yet in co ntrast to other intentional objects\, appearances genuinely exist\, which is why Kant can also be considered a genuine realist about empirical objec ts\, empirical minds\, and space and time. This book spells out Kant’s cas e for critical idealism thus understood and clarifies Kant’s conception of appearances and things in themselves in relation to Kant’s Leibniz-Wolffi an predecessors.
\nAnja Jauernig (NYU)
\nBio:
\nAnja Jauernig is Professor of Philosoph y at New York University. She obtained her Ph.D. from Princeton University \, and held academic positions at the philosophy departments of the Univer sity of Notre Dame and the University of Pittsburgh before coming to NYU. Her research interests include Kant\, Early Modern Philosophy\, 19th and e arly 20th century German Philosophy\, Aesthetics\, and Animal Ethics.
\nPatricia Kitcher (Columbia)
\nBio:
\nPatricia Kitcher is Roberta and William Campbell Professor Emerita of Humanities and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Columbia. Sh e has written two books on Kant’s theory of cognition and the self and is editor of the Oxford Philosophical Concepts volume on The Self.
\nAndrew Chignell (Princeton)
Bio: p>\n
Andrew Chignell is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor in Religion\, Philosophy\, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. Pri or to that he was a Professor of Philosophy at Penn and Associate and Assi stant Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell. His research interests are in early modern philosophy (especially Kant) and in philoso phy of religion\, moral psychology\, epistemology\, and food ethics. From 2020-2023 he served as President of the North American Kant Society.
\nDesmond Hogan (Princeton)
\nBio:
\nDesmond Hogan is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Universi ty. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research interests inc lude metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, ethics\, and aesthetics\, with a focus on the modern period and nineteenth century.
\nPresented by the New York German Idealism Workshop
\nPerfection and Morality: Kan t’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. With response from Francey R ussell. @Columbia 22 September
\nHegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel. @New School 6 October
\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork. Pauline Kleingeld. With r esponse by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 October
\nNathan DuFord tb d. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 10 November
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8074@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The virtually ubiquitous view of seeing-as experiences in Wittg enstein scholarship interprets them as conceptually-laden (with some excep tions\, e.g. Travis 2016). The claim is that we can see the same image dif ferently due to switching the conceptual filters\, as it were\, through wh ich we experience the image (e.g. Schroeder 2010\; Mulhall 2001). In this paper I focus on a specific kind of a seeing-as experience for which Wittg enstein’s example of suddenly noticing the similarity between faces is the paradigm. I argue that it is possible to have no concepts involved in thi s experience\, and propose an understanding of what I call “the imagistic seeing-as” as a similarity association\, of the kind that grounds poetic m eans of expression\, such as metaphors. The associative nature of this ima gistic seeing-as experience may also contribute to the understanding of bi ases – both personal (e.g. displaced offence) and social (e.g. sexism). DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Imagistic Seeing-As: from Faces to Metaphors and Biases. Talia M orag (U Wollongong) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-imagistic-seeing-as-f rom-faces-to-metaphors-and-biases-talia-morag-u-wollongong/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe virtually ubiquitous view of seeing-as experiences in Wittgenstein scholarship inte rprets them as conceptually-laden (with some exceptions\, e.g. Travis 2016 ). The claim is that we can see the same image differently due to switchin g the conceptual filters\, as it were\, through which we experience the im age (e.g. Schroeder 2010\; Mulhall 2001). In this paper I focus on a speci fic kind of a seeing-as experience for which Wittgenstein’s example of sud denly noticing the similarity between faces is the paradigm. I argue that it is possible to have no concepts involved in this experience\, and propo se an understanding of what I call “the imagistic seeing-as” as a similari ty association\, of the kind that grounds poetic means of expression\, suc h as metaphors. The associative nature of this imagistic seeing-as experie nce may also contribute to the understanding of biases – both personal (e. g. displaced offence) and social (e.g. sexism).
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:language\,phenomenology\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8082@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The importance of incorporating value pluralism into a theory o f justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This plural ism is often seen as a reason to attend to a range of perspectives\, persp ectives which can function as a source of information in determining which principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to proper ly attend to different perspectives has received extensive attention in th e criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theoret ical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual soc ial problems. Taking these criticisms on board\, this paper builds on non- ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approach to justice. I will explain how this linguistic practice-embedded understan ding of justice can be a helpful tool for non-ideal theory\, as it can giv e us insight into why\, in various similar but different cases\, the notio n of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will sug gest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical starting point. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Non-Idea Justice: A Family Resemblance Approach. Nadia ben Hassine (Cambridge) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/non-idea-justice-a-famil y-resemblance-approach-nadia-ben-hassine-cambridge/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe importanc e of incorporating value pluralism into a theory of justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This pluralism is often seen as a r eason to attend to a range of perspectives\, perspectives which can functi on as a source of information in determining which principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to properly attend to different p erspectives has received extensive attention in the criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theoretical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual social problems. Taking the se criticisms on board\, this paper builds on non-ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approach to justice. I will expla in how this linguistic practice-embedded understanding of justice can be a helpful tool for non-ideal theory\, as it can give us insight into why\, in various similar but different cases\, the notion of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will suggest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical starting point.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:justice\,social\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8059@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://nygiw.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:Presented by the New York German Idealism Workshop\nPerfection and Morality: Kant’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. With respon se from Francey Russell. @Columbia 22 September\nHegel’s Theory of Absolut e Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel. @New School 6 O ctober\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork. Pauline Kleingeld. With respons e by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 October\nNathan DuFord tbd. With respo nse by Chris O’Kane. @New School 10 November DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T183000 GEO:+40.736998;-73.992251 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nathan DuFord URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nathan-duford/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPresented by the New York German Idealism Workshop
\nPerfection and Morality: Kan t’s Critique of the Stoics. Stephen Engstrom. With response from Francey R ussell. @Columbia 22 September
\nHegel’s Theory of Absolute Spirit. Markus Grante. With response from Amelle Djemel. @New School 6 October
\nThe Argument of Kant’s Groundwork. Pauline Kleingeld. With r esponse by Patricia Kitcher. @Columbia 27 October
\nNathan DuFord tb d. With response by Chris O’Kane. @New School 10 November
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:German\,idealism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8052@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega DESCRIPTION:María Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of th e notion of “trespassing\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the po ssibility of problematizing normative practices and redrawing maps of powe r. In this presentation\, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic or t he perceptual in Lugones’s view of resistance as developed before her turn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which this account of resistance is dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by th e work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic tr espassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses the i ntimacy between the perceiver and the perceived.\nTickets: https://event.n ewschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Intimacies of Perception and Aesthetic Trespassing. Mariana Ort ega (PSU) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-intimacies-of-percep tion-and-aesthetic-trespassing-mariana-ortega-psu/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nMaría Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of the notion of “trespassing \,” through which “active subjectivity” has the possibility of problematiz ing normative practices and redrawing maps of power. In this presentation\ , I highlight the importance of the aesthesic or the perceptual in Lugones ’s view of resistance as developed before her turn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which this account of resistance i s dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by the work of Gloria Anzaldú a. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic trespassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses the intimacy between the perc eiver and the perceived.
\nTickets: https://event.n ewschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T112522Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons DESCRIPTION:In the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Hannah Arendt t urns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveri es and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globalization\, Prot estantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has adopted an Ar chimedean\, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experience of a sha red world\, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving activities.\n My talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessimistic account of mo dern ‘world-alienation’. It builds on the idea that some of the most influ ential thinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger\, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bloch\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Warburg\, Sigmund Fre ud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Ra ther\, the conceptual framework of a substantial part of early twentieth c entury German philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposi tion\, negation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of the se thinkers\, the world’s ‘durability’ (Arendt) is not simply a source of shared meaning since it can be experienced as the mark of its indifference to change and renewal.\nBio:\nStéphane Symons is Full Professor of Philos ophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosophy (structuralism and post-structuralism).\nTicket s: https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought – presented by Stéphane Symons URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-concept-of-world-ali enation-in-twentieth-century-german-thought-presented-by-stephane-symons/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIn the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Hannah Arendt turns to the dan ger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutio ns that are constitutive of modernity (globalization\, Protestantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has adopted an Archimedean\, ext ernal position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experience of a shared world\, end angering the foundation of all meaning-giving activities.
\nMy talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessimistic account of modern ‘wo rld-alienation’. It builds on the idea that some of the most influential t hinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger\, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bl och\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Warburg\, Sigmund Freud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Rather\, t he conceptual framework of a substantial part of early twentieth century G erman philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposition\, n egation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of these think ers\, the world’s ‘durability’ (Arendt) is not simply a source of shared m eaning since it can be experienced as the mark of its indifference to chan ge and renewal.
\nBio:
\nStéphane Symons is F ull Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Universi ty of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosophy (structuralism and post- structuralism).
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