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4:10 pm Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination. Luvell E. Anderson (Syracuse) @ Columbia U Philosophy Dept. 716
Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination. Luvell E. Anderson (Syracuse) @ Columbia U Philosophy Dept. 716
Oct 10 @ 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
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Thursday, October 10th, 2019 Luvell E. Anderson (Syracuse) Title: “Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination” 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall Reception to follow Thursday, November 14th, 2019 Frances Egan (Rutgers) Title: “TBA” 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM, 716 Philosophy Hall Reception to follow
6:00 pm Reconstructing Nietzsche, Contextually. Matthew Meyer @ Wolff Conference Room, D1106
Reconstructing Nietzsche, Contextually. Matthew Meyer @ Wolff Conference Room, D1106
Oct 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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I defend a contextual reconstruction of Nietzsche’s philosophical project. My contextualist reconstruction contrasts with the rationalist reconstruction predominant in contemporary Anglo-American scholarship. After discussing the differences between the two approaches, I show how the rationalist reconstruction has distorted our understanding of Nietzsche in at least two respects. First, in trying to extract theories from Nietzsche’s corpus that will be attractive to contemporary philosophers, it has caused scholars largely to neglect the nature, structure, and argument[...]
October 10, 2019