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-7836@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T014725Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumarruzza DESCRIPTION:Socrates’ close association of madness and philosophy from the Phaedrus’ Palinode has puzzled interpreters. How can philosophy be equated to irrationality? In this paper I argue against interpretations that eith er deny that the association of madness and philosophy ought to be taken s eriously or downplay this association by considering madness as akin to th e unreflective inspiration characterizing only the first stages of philos ophizing but subsequently overcome by the mature philosopher. I show that the association of madness and philosophy is an integral part of Socrates’ polemics against what he calls “human moderation”\, characterized by a co ld calculation of costs and benefits. And\, moreover\, that madness is an ongoing feature of philosophy and of the philosopher\, who is never fully in possession of all his rational and cognitive processes but has to const antly work on them in an effort of self-clarification.\n \nExternal visito rs must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https: //www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.\nAudience membe rs must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if e ligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.\n\n\n\n\n\n \nTickets: htt ps://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumarruzza. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Madness of Philosophy & the Limitations of Human Moderation in Plato’s Phaedrus”. Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-madness-of-philosoph y-the-limitations-of-human-moderation-in-platos-phaedrus-cinzia-arruzza-ns sr/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nSocrates’ close association of madness and philosophy from the Phaedrus’ Palinode has puzzled interpreters. How can philosophy be eq uated to irrationality? In this paper I argue against interpretations that either deny that the association of madness and philosophy ought to be ta ken seriously or downplay this association by considering madness as akin to the unreflective inspiration characterizing only the first stages of p hilosophizing but subsequently overcome by the mature philosopher. I show that the association of madness and philosophy is an integral part of Socr ates’ polemics against what he calls “human moderation”\, characterized by a cold calculation of costs and benefits. And\, moreover\, that madness i s an ongoing feature of philosophy and of the philosopher\, who is never f ully in possession of all his rational and cognitive processes but has to constantly work on them in an effort of self-clarification.
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X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Plato\,rationality X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumarruzza END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T014725Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/gwengrewal DESCRIPTION:Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking About Death i n Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)\n \nS peakers:\nGwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)\nCinzia Arruzza (NSSR)\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)\n \nThinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialogue s that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosop hy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-headed s ophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate betwee n choral ode and rhapsody\, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-forth a rguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality\, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme\, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s tenu ous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration th rough Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athen ian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades. T hinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinki ng: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’s s ophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pa ys careful attention to grammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in way s that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s mysterie s. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/thinking-about-death-in- platos-euthydemus/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nBook discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthy demus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)
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Grewal (NSSR)
\nCinzia Arruzza (NSSR)
\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)
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Thinking of D eath places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-headed sophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody \, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural nu mber in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close reading explores how the structur e of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality\, thi nking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthy demus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme\, and so emerge as the phil osophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substanc e. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s tenuous relationship to polit ical life. This is played out in the narration through Crito’s implied cri ticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus bri ngs with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’s sophistry. Grewal also pro vides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to g rammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in ways that substantially expa nd the reader’s access to the dialogue’s mysteries.
\nAnalyzing the Mexican case of collectives of women currently looking for their disappea red relatives due to an escalation of violence related to the so-called Wa r against Drugs that former president Felipe Calderón (2006–2012) started \, this essay develops a new conception of politics grounded not only on r ational thought but also on affect. These collectives put forward a materi alistic\, feminist\, and performative mode of politics. Publicly lamenting their losses and literally digging bodies out of Mexican land\, these wom en perform and recover the citizenship that the Mexican state has de facto disavowed of them. I propose conceptualizing them as “bad victims” since their taking action does not take away their pain\; rather\, the public ex posure of their lament actually turns them into political agents.
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Bio:
\nRosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Prof essor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researchers\, level III. She was c oordinator of the research projects “Philosophers after Freud” and “Philos ophy and Psychoanalysis as Critical Borders of the Political.” She is the author of Freud y Derrida: escritura y psique (2013) and Eros : Más allá de la pulsión de muerte (2017). This last book has been tr anslated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2021). Sh e has coordinated several collective books and published articles on the i ntersection between psychoanalysis and philosophy and on the field of the psychopolitical. In 2017 she was awarded the Research Prize in Humanities by the Mexican Academy of Sciences\; in 2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar\; in 2021 she received the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz UNAM recognition\; and during the Fall 2023 she was the Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia Un iversity. She is part of the advisory board of the “International Consorti um of Critical Theory Programs” coordinated by Judith Butler.
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