Apr
1
Mon
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7395
Apr 1 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:

Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)

Feb 12. NO MEETING

Feb 19. NO MEETING

Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)

Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)

Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)

Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)

Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)

Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)

Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)

Apr 22. NO MEETING

Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)

May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)

Apr
4
Thu
The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought – presented by Stéphane Symons @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103
Apr 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

In the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Hannah Arendt turns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globalization, Protestantism, the invention of the telescope), modern man has adopted an Archimedean, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experience of a shared world, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving activities.

My talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessimistic account of modern ‘world-alienation’. It builds on the idea that some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger, Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, Sigmund Freud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Rather, the conceptual framework of a substantial part of early twentieth century German philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposition, negation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of these 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.

Bio:

Stéphane Symons is Full Professor of Philosophy 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).

Apr
8
Mon
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7395
Apr 8 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:

Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)

Feb 12. NO MEETING

Feb 19. NO MEETING

Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)

Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)

Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)

Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)

Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)

Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)

Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)

Apr 22. NO MEETING

Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)

May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)

Apr
15
Mon
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7395
Apr 15 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:

Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)

Feb 12. NO MEETING

Feb 19. NO MEETING

Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)

Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)

Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)

Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)

Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)

Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)

Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)

Apr 22. NO MEETING

Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)

May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)

Apr
26
Fri
Social Metaphysics Workshop @ Rutgers Philosophy
Apr 26 – Apr 28 all-day

Social Metaphysics Workshop – location tbd

Apr
29
Mon
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7395
Apr 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:

Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)

Feb 12. NO MEETING

Feb 19. NO MEETING

Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)

Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)

Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)

Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)

Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)

Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)

Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)

Apr 22. NO MEETING

Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)

May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)

May
6
Mon
Logic & Metaphysics Workshop @ CUNY Grad Center 7395
May 6 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:

Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)

Feb 12. NO MEETING

Feb 19. NO MEETING

Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)

Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)

Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)

Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)

Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)

Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)

Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)

Apr 22. NO MEETING

Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)

May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)