Events
The German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and discussing classic texts in German philosophy in their original form. The seminar offers an opportunity for close reading and discussion of a selection of seminal texts in the history of German thought and - where relevant - to practise German philosophy reading skills.
Retracing Adorno's Heidegger-Critique
In the autumn term we will reconstruct and reappraise Adorno's reception of Heidegger's philosophy. We will approach the question of Adorno's relation to Heidegger through a close-reading and discussion of the first part of Negative Dialektik ('Das ontologische Bedürfnis' and 'Sein und Existenz') and of the text 'Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie'. The question what is at stake, for philosophy today, in this confrontation of different modes of thought (negative dialectic, dialectical materialism, 'Seinsdenken', hermeneutics) will frame the discussion.
All are welcome to participate. Please register in advance with the organiser, Dr Johan Siebers. A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Monday, 3 October 2011
4 - 6 p.m.
Room STB 5, Stewart House
Monday, 17 October 2011
4 - 6 p.m.
Room STB 5, Stewart House
Monday, 31 October 2011
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 265, Senate House - PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Guest Speaker:
Laurence Hemming (Lancaster): Beside Myself with Indignation: Hegel, Marz and Heidegger on Alienation
Marx's understanding of alienation has increasingly become a key not only for understanding his own work, but also a key for certain self-presentations of the work of the social sciences overall. Although there have been a number of important investigations of Marx's use of the terms 'Entfremdung' and 'Entäußerung', acknowledging Marx's indebtedness to Hegel, Laurence argues that insufficient attention has been paid to how exactly Marx took over Hegel's central metaphysical thought. This seminar re-examines Hegel's influence on Marx, by asking again what Marx and Hegel meant by alienation, and asking how Marx concretised and revolutionised Hegel's term as a central understanding of the meaning of transcendence, by returning to other interpreters of Hegel, notably Heidegger, to shed new light on Marx's use of Hegel's terms.
Monday, 14 November 2011
4 - 6 p.m.
Room STB 5, Stewart House
Monday, 28 November 2011
4 - 6 p.m.
Room STB 5, Stewart House
Monday, 12 December 2011
4 - 6 p.m.
Room STB 5, Stewart House
Wagner and Philosophy
Sessions will be held as follows. Further details and reading list
Monday, 16 January 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 264, Senate House
Monday, 30 January 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 264, Senate House
Monday, 13 February 2012
4 - 6 p.m
Room 265, Senate House
Monday, 27 February 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 265, Senate House
Monday, 12 March 2012
4 -6 p.m.
Room 264, Senate House
Monday, 26 March 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 265, Senate House
Topic to be announced
A detailed programme will follow shortly. Dates of sessions are as follows:
Monday, 14 May 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 265, Senate House
Monday, 28 May 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 265, Senate House
Monday, 11 June 2012
4 - 6 p.m
Room 265, Senate House
Monday, 25 June 2012
4 - 6 p.m.
Room 265, Senate House