THE FRIDAY PHILOSOPHY FORUM

AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY PRESENT

THINKING WITH & AGAINST HEIDEGGER

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2001

WHITE HALL 207, EMORY UNIVERSITY

 

9:30 AM Morning Reception

 

10:00 AM - 12:30 AM

 

I. Contexts

  Chair: Bettina Bergo (Loyola College - Baltimore)

  1. Eric S. Nelson (Emory University),

"History, Facticity, Ereignis"

  2. Antje Kapust (Vanderbilt University/ Ruhr-

  Universität-Bochum),

"Questioning Violence"

  3. Hugh Silverman (SUNY at Stony Brook),

"Heidegger and the Postmodern Sublime"

 

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

II. Practices

  Chair: Maria Margaroni (University of Cyprus)

  4. Beate Obst (Emory University/Bergische

  -Universität-Wuppertal),

"Can you ‘discover' what is ‘factically possible'?

Heidegger on taking action in Being and Time"

  5. Francois Raffoul (Louisiana State University),

"Heidegger and Originary Praxis"

  6. David Wood (Vanderbilt University),

"Framed Performativity: The Logic of the Beiträge"

 

5:15 PM - 6:30

III. Thought and Rationality

  Chair: Claire E. Katz (Pennsylvania State

University)

  7.  Daniel W. Conway (Pennsylvania State

University),

"Reflections of Heidegger: On the Limits of Thinking"

  8. John McCumber (Northwestern University),

"Rational Procedure in the Later Heidegger"

 

Inquiries can be directed to: Eric S. Nelson:

esnel@yahoo.com or Ian Oakes: OakesIS@aol.com