tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91552087322397344312024-03-13T08:44:46.012-07:00Self and WorldA Blog About German IdealismGabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-5196761318984136102010-06-22T16:13:00.000-07:002010-06-22T16:23:50.973-07:00The Summer of Maimon<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Over at <a href="http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/">Perverse Egalitarianism </a>a <a href="http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/maimon-reading-schedule/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Maimon</span> Reading Group </a>is now up and running. I plan to take part and post some thoughts here as things develop. We are reading the new translation of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Maimon's</span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Essay-Transcendental-Philosophy-Salomon-Maimon/dp/1441113843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277248624&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Essay on Transcendental Philosophy</span></a>, so make sure to check it out or take part. For an introduction to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Maimon</span> <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimon/">this <span style="font-style: italic;">Stanford Encyclopedia </span>article is nice</a>. There is also a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Maimon</span> conference in August, the details of which you can find <a href="http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/salomon-maimon-conference-august-19th-2010/">here</a>. Happy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">SOM</span>.<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-91122187452384871282010-06-14T06:54:00.000-07:002010-06-14T07:11:29.602-07:00Hegelian Analysis of the Tea Party<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Jay Bernstein, who is at the New School for Social Research and was my dissertation adviser, has published in the NY Times an interesting analysis of the motivations behind the Tea Party. The piece is really a Hegelian analysis of the underlying anger motivating the Tea Party. Why are they so angry? </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/">Check it out!</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Here are some highlights:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><blockquote>My hypothesis is that what all the events precipitating the Tea Party movement share is that they demonstrated, emphatically and unconditionally, the depths of the absolute <em>dependence</em> of us all on government action, and in so doing they undermined the deeply held fiction of individual autonomy and self-sufficiency that are intrinsic parts of Americans’ collective self-understanding.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Tea Party anger is, at bottom, metaphysical, not political: what has been undone by the economic crisis is the belief that each individual is metaphysically self-sufficient, that one’s very standing and being as a rational agent <em>owes</em> nothing to other individuals or institutions. The opposing metaphysical claim, the one I take to be true, is that the very idea of the autonomous subject is an <em>institution</em>, an artifact created by the practices of modern life: the intimate family, the market economy, the liberal state. Each of these social arrangements articulate and express the value and the authority of the individual; they <em>give</em> to the individual a standing she would not have without them.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The issue here is a central one in modern philosophy: is individual autonomy an irreducible metaphysical given or a social creation? Descartes famously argued that self or subject, the “I think,” was metaphysically basic, while Hegel argued that we only become self-determining agents through <em>being recognized</em> as such by others who we recognize in turn. It is by recognizing one another as autonomous subjects through the institutions of family, civil society and the state that we become such subjects; those practices are how we recognize and so bestow on one another the title and powers of being free individuals. <p>All the heavy lifting in Hegel’s account turns on revealing how human subjectivity only emerges through <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">intersubjective</span> relations, and hence how practices of independence, of freedom and autonomy, are held in place and made possible by complementary structures of dependence. At one point in his “Philosophy of Right,” Hegel suggests love or friendship as models of freedom through recognition. In love I regard you as of such value and importance that I spontaneously set aside my egoistic desires and interests and align them with yours: your ends are my desires, I desire that you flourish, and when you flourish I do, too. In love, I experience you not as a limit or restriction on my freedom, but as what makes it possible: I can only be truly free and so truly independent in being harmoniously joined with you; we each recognize the other as endowing our life with meaning and value, with living freedom. Hegel’s phrase for this felicitous state is “to be with oneself in the other.”</p> <p>Hegel’s thesis is that <em>all</em> social life is structurally akin to the conditions of love and friendship; we are all bound to one another as firmly as lovers are, with the terrible reminder that the ways of love are harsh, unpredictable and changeable. And here is the source of the great anger: because you are the source of my being, when our love goes bad I am suddenly, absolutely dependent on someone for whom I no longer count and who I no longer know how to count; I am exposed, vulnerable, needy, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">unanchored</span> and without resource. In fury, I lash out, I deny that you are my end and my satisfaction, in rage I claim that I can manage without you, that I can be a full person, free and self-moving, without you. I am everything and you are nothing. </p> <p>This is the rage and anger I hear in the Tea Party movement; it is the sound of jilted lovers furious that the other — the anonymous blob called simply “government” — has suddenly let them down, suddenly made clear that they are dependent and limited beings, suddenly revealed them as vulnerable. And just as in love, the one-sided reminder of dependence is experienced as an injury. All the rhetoric of self-sufficiency, all the grand talk of wanting to be left alone is just the hollow insistence of the bereft lover that she can and will survive without her beloved. However, in political life, unlike love, there are no second marriages; we have only the one partner, and although we can rework our relationship, nothing can remove the actuality of dependence. That is permanent.</p><p></p></blockquote><p>Many philosophy blogs were irritated by Simon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Critchley's</span> inaugural post on the NY Times <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-stone/">The Stone</a>, but it looks as if the blog is heading in the right direction now with Bernstein's post and posts by other philosophers like Peter Singer, Nancy Sherman, and Arthur <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Danto</span>.</p><br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-10060630346397906572010-06-10T14:18:00.000-07:002010-06-10T14:30:33.411-07:00New Kant JournalThere is a new Kant journal, <a href="http://www.kantstudiesonline.net/KantStudiesOnline_Editors.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Kant Studies Online</span></a>, which is peer reviewed and open access. Here are the details:<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:12pt;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" ><blockquote>Kant Studies Online publishes articles written in English on all aspects of Kant’s works including historically informed studies, applications of Kantian thought to contemporary problems, the relationship between Kantian and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Neo</span>-Kantian thinking, and detailed scholarly works on interpretation of Kant’s works. It will also include review articles of secondary works on Kant. An issue of the journal will be deemed to exist whenever an accepted article is published. The journal is edited by Gary <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Banham</span> in association with an editorial board and is published in the spirit of the open access movement. Whilst its target audience is academic philosophers and students it aims to attract non-academic readers by making all its material freely available without restriction.</blockquote></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:12pt;" ></span><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a promising development for Kant scholarship. I imagine as more journals are online and open access, like <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophers Imprint</span>, they will gain a larger following, more esteem, and publish better scholarship. Four Kant journals come to mind that publish in English: <span style="font-style: italic;">Kantian Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Kant-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Studien</span></span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Kant Yearbook</span>, and now <span style="font-style: italic;">Kant Studies Online</span>. Am I missing any?<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-61022522171498086812010-05-28T16:23:00.000-07:002010-05-28T16:25:27.307-07:00Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (Book Review)<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">NDPR review of Fichte's </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=19829">Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">.</span>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-79630456191744053752010-05-04T12:25:00.000-07:002010-05-04T12:28:17.627-07:00Define Self-Positing!<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I'm defending my dissertation this Friday, and have been reading through it. I've always struggled with defining Fichte's conception of self-positing. Here is what I say it is at one point:</span>
<br /><blockquote style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Self-positing is the very activity in which the I is constituted as an I by virtue of reflexively self-reverting into itself so to immediately become intuitively aware of its own reflexive activity involved in the self-ascription of representations in judgment.</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">This account is defended by a good bit of interpretation and argumentation (or so I'd like to think). I'm curious how others might define self-positing. 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Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-40416674431052291152010-05-02T09:37:00.000-07:002010-05-02T09:40:42.077-07:00NY German Idealism Workshop<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> The next meeting of the NY German Idealism Workshop will be held on Friday, May 7<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> at The New School. Jon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Burmeister</span> (Boston College) will be giving a paper entitled, "Hegel on Ordinary and Philosophical Language." Roy Ben-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Shai</span> (The New School for Social Research) will respond. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Date: Friday, May 7<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">th</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Location: The New School for Social Research, 6 East 16<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">th</span> St., Wolff</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Conference Room (906/913)</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Time: 4:30–6:30</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I will actually be at</span> the New School, but won't make the meeting because I will be defending my dissertation at the same time.<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-8970462814894685142010-04-28T10:22:00.000-07:002010-04-28T10:29:32.934-07:00Midwestern Study Group of the North American Kant Society (CFP)<div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Midwestern Study Group of the North American Kant Society<br />October 23-24, 2010<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;">University of Western Ontario<br />London, Ontario, Canada<br />Keynote Speaker: Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College, CUNY)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> Call for papers: We welcome submissions from all areas of Kant studies, broadly construed to include not only contemporary approaches that are “Kantian” in methodology or content, but also the discussion of Kant's immediate predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.<br />The deadline for submissions is <b>July 1, 2010</b>. Papers should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages. All submissions should be prepared for blind review and should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers read at any other NAKS meeting may not be submitted.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Send submissions, and direct any enquiries, to Corey W. Dyck (cdyck5@uwo.ca).Program Committee: Corey W. Dyck and Bill Harper (UWO), Brigitte Sassen (McMaster)<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> Link to conference website: <a href="https://mail.xavier.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=29577f55d8f04aa8bc71e3e06367ae65&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpublish.uwo.ca%2f%7ecdyck5%2fNorth_American_Kant_Society%2findex.html" target="_blank">http://publish.uwo.ca/~cdyck5/North_American_Kant_Society/index.html</a><br /></div><br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-18638424428440401142010-03-22T14:20:00.000-07:002010-03-22T14:29:01.809-07:00The Relevance of Romanticism (Conference)<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Villanova</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> University is hosting a conference </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/assets/documents/philosophy/TheRelevanceofRomanticismProgramFeb2010.pdf">The Relevance of Romanticism</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> April 16-17. The lineup is quite strong and the keynote speakers are Manfred Frank and Frederick </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Beiser</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">, two figures that have done a lot to clarify the philosophical contribution of the German Romantics. </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/assets/documents/philosophy/TheRelevanceofRomanticismProgramFeb2010.pdf">Here</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> you will find the conference program.</span>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-85766368589626638262010-03-17T09:53:00.001-07:002010-03-17T09:59:37.763-07:00NY German Idealism Workshop<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Over the last year or so posts have been quite sporadic, but I hope to get back into posting more often. So, expect more posts in the next few days/weeks.<br /><br />The NY German Idealism Workshop is meeting on Friday, March 26th: "A Dialogue on Fichte and Recognition" with Jay Bernstein (The New School for Social Research) and Fred Neuhouser (Barnard College). Both are featured in the recent publication, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Recognition-Historical-Contemporary-Perspectives/dp/0739144251/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268845032&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives</span></a>, ed. Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch and Christopher Zurn (Lexington, 2010). Prof. Bernstein will give a short presentation of his paper, "Recognition and Embodiment: Fichte's Materialism" (see attached) to which Prof. Neuhouser will respond.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> A Dialogue on Fichte and Recognition with Jay Bernstein and Fred Neuhouser<br />Date: Friday, March 26th<br />Time: 4:30–6:30<br />Location: Philosophy Hall, Room 716, Columbia University<br /></div><br />For a copy of Jay Bernstein's paper email Karen Ng:<br />(<a href="mailto:karen.ng92@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span class="il">karen</span>.ng92@gmail.com</a>).<br /><br /><br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-19296714009043637502010-01-30T05:00:00.000-08:002010-01-30T05:05:03.522-08:00International Summer School in German Philosophy<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Philosophy Department at Bonn University is pleased to announce the First Annual International Summer School in German Philosophy. This year's topic is "Transcendental Ontology and Issues in Epistemology in Post-Kantian Idealism."<br /><br />Professor Markus Gabriel (Bonn University) will organize and teach the seminar, with Professors Paul <span class="il">Franks</span> (University of Toronto) and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Espen</span> Hammer (Temple University) giving keynote addresses.<br /><br />One of the aims of the summer school is to argue that the thinkers of Post-Kantian Idealism defend a new ontology, one which lays out the conditions of possibility for transcendental, higher-order thought. Despite Kant’s negative verdict on ontology, these conditions appear<br />precisely ontological as soon as the existence of the alleged transcendental subject is confirmed. Since the world cannot be reduced to a strictly ”external world” in the Cartesian sense, the<br />conditions of possibility for referring to determinate objects in the world come to be conceived as themselves determinate objects in the world. With this re-evaluation of the status of ontology in mind, we will read key texts by Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, with specific attention to the relation between epistemology and ontology. Through this ”<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ontologized</span>” reading, we will attend to certain essential claims of each thinker: Hegel’s thinking not only substance as subject, but the subject as substance, the later Fichte’s re-introducing the notion of being into his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Wissenschaftslehre</span>, and finally, Schelling’s ontology of ”ground”, ”existence” and the ”will” in his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Freiheitsschrift</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Weltalter</span>.<br /><br />The Summer School will be organized seminar-style, emphasizing group discussion and close readings of key texts of German Idealism (Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel).<br /><br />The Summer School will run June 14-25, 2010, and all discussions will be in English. Please send your application in English (CV and short letter of intent) to <a href="mailto:idealism2010@uni-bonn.de">idealism2010@uni-bonn.de</a> by March 10. There are some stipends (€ 800-1000) available, which cover travel expenses and part of the accommodation. To apply for a stipend, please send your CV and a short letter of intent that explains your need for financial support. Please note that there is no registration fee for the summer school.<br /><br />Other information--including a description of the syllabus, and information about stipends--can be found on the website: <a href="http://www.idealism.uni-bonn.de/" target="_blank">http://www.idealism.uni-bonn.<wbr><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">de</span>/</a> and all inquiries should be directed to <a href="mailto:idealism2010@uni-bonn.de">idealism2010@uni-bonn.de</a>.<br /></div><a href="mailto:idealism2010@uni-bonn.de"> </a>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-58558557939184792672009-12-15T19:24:00.000-08:002009-12-15T19:33:03.682-08:00Georgia State and Post-Kantian Philosophy<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Sebastian Rand from Georgia State University asked me to link to this <a href="http://www2.gsu.edu/%7Ewwwphi/docs/PHIL/fellowshipscholarship2010.pdf">flyer </a>about their MA program. Readers thinking about graduate school or advising students applying should check out the program. It's great to see that they offer funding for students working on Kant and Post-Kantian philosophy. As far as I know, it can be very difficult to get funding at the MA level, but Georgia State appears to have a number of good funding opportunities. If you know about other similar programs, feel free to mention them in the comments. As PhD programs get to be more and more competitive, MAs at places like Georgia State are becoming more valuable.<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-16870149218931741812009-12-04T08:17:00.000-08:002009-12-04T08:19:06.467-08:00NY German Idealism Workshop<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">On behalf of the NY German Idealism Workshop, I would like to announce the final meeting of the semester on Friday, December 11th. Jens Rometsch (University of Bonn) will be giving a paper entitled, “Hegel's Point About Knowledge of What We Are Doing”. Rocío Zambrana (The New School for Social Research) will respond.<br /><br />Date: Friday, December 11th<br />Location: The New School for Social Research, 6 East 16th St. Room 906<br />Time: 4:00-6:00pm<br /><br />please email <a href="mailto:karen.ng92@gmail.com">karen.ng92@gmail.com</a> for a copy of the paper.<br /></div> <span style="color:#888888;"><br /></span>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-32847979904490106362009-11-25T05:59:00.000-08:002009-11-25T06:11:07.124-08:00Is Obama a Kantian?<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">In his speech at his first state dinner honoring the prime minister of India, Obama approvingly quotes Kant: "For it's been said that 'the most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.' Mr. Prime Minister, today we worked to fulfill our duty --bring our countries closer together than ever before. Tonight, under the stars, we celebrate the spirit that will sustain our partnership -- the bonds of friendship between our people." Transcript <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/politics/25dinner-text.html?_r=1&ref=politics">here</a>.<br /><br />Maybe this is the influence of <a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/rahm-emanuel-an.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Rahm</span> Emanuel</a>, who happened to admire Hegel and "the nineteenth-century German thinkers" during his student days.<br /><br />(Thanks to David Wood for the tip)<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-37197702519238836022009-11-17T05:52:00.000-08:002009-11-17T05:55:19.139-08:00NY German Idealism Workshop, Nov. 20th<div style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;font-size:13;" >The NY German Idealism Workshop will hold its next meeting on Friday, November 20th. Patricia <span style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kitcher </span></span>(Columbia University) will be giving a paper entitled:<br /><br />“Kant’s Spontaneous Thinker and (More) Spontaneous Agent.” Robert Howell (SUNY Albany) will respond.<br /><br />Date: Friday, November 20th<br />Location: Columbia University, Philosophy Hall, Room 716<br />Time: 4:30-6:30pm</span></div> <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;font-size:13;" ><br />Light refreshments will be served.</span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">To receive a copy of Kitcher's paper in advance, email Matt Congdon at <a href="mailto:matt.congdon@gmail.com" target="_blank">matt.congdon@gmail.com</a></span></span></div> <div style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-15481941756076506482009-10-08T12:51:00.000-07:002009-10-08T13:01:43.656-07:00Hegel and Herder<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Mitchell <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Verter</span>, a student at the New School for Social Research, is creating an online <a href="http://www.waste.org/%7Eroadrunner/Hegel/PhenSpirit/index.html">bilingual edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit</span></a>. I'm sure many will find this useful.<br /><br />For the many readers in the NY area, Katie <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Terezakis</span>, a graduate of the New School and now at Rochester Institute of Technology, will give <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/seminars/history/seminar-folder/eighteenth-cent-euro-culture.html">a talk</a> October 15, 2009 at Columbia University: "Meaning and Authority in the Thought of J.G. Herder".<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-36059317502818172232009-10-01T12:50:00.000-07:002009-10-02T07:56:57.884-07:00German Idealism Workshop<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The NY German Idealism Workshop, organized this year jointly by The New School for Social Research and Columbia, will hold its next meeting on Friday, October 16th.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Allegra de Laurentiis (Stonybrook) will be giving a paper entitled, "Garve, Kant and Hegel on the Right and the Useful in International Politics." Martin Stone (Cardozo and The New School) will respond.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Date: Friday, October 16th</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Location: The New School, 80 Fifth Ave., Rm. 529</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Time: 4-6pm</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Light refreshments will be served.</span></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-33392757569579670092009-09-27T10:25:00.001-07:002009-09-27T10:29:00.120-07:00New SEP Articles<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">There are some new Kant and Kant related articles up at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:<br /><br /><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental/">Kant's Transcendental Arguments</a><br /><br /><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/">Kant's Views on Space and Time</a><br /><br /><a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strawson/">Peter Frederick Strawson</a><br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-65608750035734063602009-09-17T07:03:00.001-07:002009-09-17T07:05:45.723-07:00Henrich Book Review<div style="text-align: justify;">Terry <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Pinkard</span> reviews Dieter <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Henrich's</span> <a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=17488"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Denken</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Selbstsein</span></span></a> at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">NDPR</span>.<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-69056041011795030762009-09-03T17:31:00.000-07:002009-09-03T17:33:45.175-07:00Hegel After Spinoza (CFP)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://publicreason.net/2009/08/24/cfp-hegel-after-spinoza/">Here </a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">you will find a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">CFP</span> for a volume of essays on the topic of Hegel and Spinoza. </span><br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-70139377859607465192009-08-27T04:59:00.000-07:002009-08-27T05:02:58.496-07:00The Relevance of Romanticism (CFP)<p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Relevance of Romanticism</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A conference sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (GPPC)</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">April 16-17, 2010</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Villanova University</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Manfred Frank, Universität Tübingen</span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University </span><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </p><div face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">With the recent increase of interest in philosophical romanticism, it seems appropriate to ask the question, <i> why romanticism now</i>. What were the philosophical questions and concerns of Romanticism, and why do they seem particularly apt for contemporary philosophical and non-philosophical discussions? What is the value of Romanticism as a philosophical movement, both within the history of philosophy, and for philosophy today? Is Romanticism a fundamentally distinct movement, which offers something to the history of philosophy or to contemporary philosophical discussions, which other movements (Idealism, for example) do not? Can we speak of “philosophical Romanticism” at all? What is philosophical about Romanticism?<br /></span></p><div face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The conference is dedicated to raising and attempting to answer some of these questions, in light of the work of the two keynote speakers, Manfred Frank and Frederick Beiser. We are seeking papers which address the theme of philosophical Romanticism and its relevance, from a historical or a contemporary perspective. Interdisciplinary approaches to the relationship between philosophical Romanticism and other disciplines (art, science, literature, theology) are also welcome. Papers should exhibit some familiarity with the works of Manfred Frank and/or Frederick Beiser, and, to some degree, engage with their contributions to the field.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In addition to the keynote addresses, Manfred Frank and Frederick Beiser will participate in a roundtable discussion with the conference participants.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions: Please submit a completed paper (3,500 words) no later than <b>January 31, 2010</b> to <a href="mailto:dalia.nassar@villanova.edu" target="_blank">dalia.nassar@villanova.edu</a>. Papers should be prepared for blind-review. Submissions should be in .doc or .pdf format. Questions: contact Dalia Nassar at:<br /><a href="mailto:dalia.nassar@villanova.edu" target="_blank">dalia.nassar@villanova.edu</a>.<br /><br /></span> </div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-74384854613253386642009-07-26T07:52:00.000-07:002009-07-26T08:01:09.426-07:00Analytic Kantianism<p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The new issue of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophical Topics </span>is dedicated to Kant and it includes essays by excellent philosophers.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophical Topics</span>, Volume 34, Numbers 1 & 2<br /> <strong>Analytic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kantianism</span> </strong> </span> </p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Issue Editor: James Conant</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Contributors: Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Brandom</span>, Eli <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Friedlander</span>, Michael Friedman, Hannah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ginsborg</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Arata</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Hamawaki</span>, Andrea Kern, Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Kremer</span>, Thomas Land, Thomas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Lockhart</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Béatrice</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Longuenesse</span>, John McDowell, A.W. Moore, Sebastian <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Rödl</span>, and Clinton <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Tolley</span>. </span></p></div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-65369334511556238272009-07-07T07:18:00.000-07:002009-07-07T07:23:55.603-07:00Notes from Hamann Conference<div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://jonathangray.org/">Jonathan Gray</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> posted his </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://jonathangray.org/2009/06/10/the-magus-in-new-york/">notes from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Hamann</span> Conference </a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">hosted by Hunter College in the spring. I was only able to attend the first day, but it was a great line up and it is clear there is some strong scholarship being done on </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Hamann</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">. Hopefully more events like this will be organized in the future. </span><br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-9194367419752189362009-06-17T15:27:00.000-07:002009-06-17T15:32:54.263-07:00Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Subscription<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">I'm a big fan of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I noticed they have a new initiative that I think many readers will be interested in. For a very reasonable sum of money, you can subscribe to the encyclopedia and download clean <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Pdfs</span> of their articles. More <a href="https://leibniz.stanford.edu/friends/">here</a>.<br /><br />Also, check out the new <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/novalis/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Novalis</span> </a>entry by Kristin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Gjedal</span>.<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-15361603039963079032009-06-08T13:15:00.001-07:002009-06-08T13:20:04.301-07:00Update<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Posting has been light over the last month or so, and I expect light posting to continue. I'm moving to Cincinnati in a month for a visiting position at Xavier University, and I need to get a lot of writing done before and just after the move. If you have any news you would like posted contact me by email and I'd be happy to post it here. Happy Summer!<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9155208732239734431.post-17176948418812096782009-05-16T20:46:00.000-07:002009-05-16T20:58:27.125-07:00A Fichte Fugue<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Exposition</span>: <a href="http://www.fichtestube-rammenau.de/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Fichtestube</span></a>, a Fichte themed restaurant.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Development</span>: A new edition of Fichte's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fichte-Critique-Revelation-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/0521130182/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242532122&sr=1-24"><span style="font-style: italic;">Attempt at at Critique of All Revelation</span> </a>is being edited by Allen Wood and expected sometime next year.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Recapitulation</span>: <a href="http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/fichte-on-tv/">Fichte TV</a>.<br /></div>Gabriel Gottliebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985766497553341713noreply@blogger.com1