Verstehen Colloquium
The Verstehen Colloquium brings together participants from philosophy and other disciplines across the humanities and social and natural sciences interested in exploring, primarily through the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions, ways of understanding and interpreting humans and worlds. We meet frequently during and outside term-time to discuss texts and share our own work making efforts in this direction.
Below can be found details of our meetings from summer 2019 to Easter Term 2024. If you are visiting this page after that point, you can find more recent details (including on our upcoming meetings) at www.verstehencolloquium.org.
Convenors: David Ewing, Haotian (Walden) Wu, Sebastian Raza-Mejia, Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Cave paintings from Lascaux in France, discussed in Fiona Hughes’ 2013 paper on passivity in Merleau-Ponty [Attribution: Lascaux / Public domain]
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Previous meetings |
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| Michaelmas Term 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 3 July |
Adolf Reinach, The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law (1913), §1 ‘The idea of the apriori theory of right’ and §2 ‘Claim and obligation’ |
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| Wednesday 10 July | §3 ‘The social acts’ and §4 ‘The act of promising as the origin of claim and obligation’ | |
| Wednesday 17 July | §7 ‘Representation’ | |
| Wednesday 24 July | §8 ‘Enactments and the propositions expressing enactments’ | |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Christopher Watts |
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| Wednesday 14 August | Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), PART II The Discursive Regularities: (1) The unities of discourse; (2) Discursive formations | |
| Wednesday 21 August | PART II The Discursive Regularities: (3) The formation of objects; (4) The formation of enunciative modalities; (5) The formation of concepts | |
| Wednesday 28 August | PART III The Statement and the Archive: (1) Defining the Statement; (2) The enunciative function | |
| Wednesday 4 September | PART III The Statement and the Archive: (3) The description of statements; (5) The historical a priori and the archive | |
| Wednesday 11 September | PART IV Archaeological Description: (1) Archaeology and the history of ideas; (2) The Original and the regular; (3) Contradictions | |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Henri Chastain |
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| Wednesday 18 September | Jacques Derrida, seminar series on hospitality. Session of 10 January 1996, ‘Foreigner Question: Coming from Abroad / from the Foreigner’, in Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle, Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond, I (2000) | |
| Wednesday 25 September | Session of 17 January 1996, ‘Step of Hospitality / No Hospitality’, in Of Hospitality | |
| Wednesday 2 October | Session of 8 January 1997, in Acts of Religion (2002) | |
| Wednesday 9 October | Session of February 12th, 1997, in Acts of Religion | |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Isabel Connolly-Linden |
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Easter Term 2024 |
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| Wednesday 1 May | Edith Stein, On the Problem of Empathy (1917), Ch. 2 ‘The Essence of the Act of Empathy’, ss1–2 (methodology, comparative description of empathy), pp. 3–11 | |
| Wednesday 8 May | Ch. 2, ss. 3, 5 and 6 (comparison with other accounts, including Lipps, Scheler and theories of genesis of understanding), pp. 11–18, 21–34 | |
| Wednesday 15 May | Ch. 3 ‘The Constitution of the Psycho-Physical Individual’, ss1–4 (the pure ‘I’, stream of consciousness, soul/psyche, living body), pp. 38–56 | |
| Wednesday 22 May | Ch. 3, s. 5a–h (the other’s sensations and the other’s world, implications for constitution of one’s self and the world, other’s movement), pp. 56–88 | |
| Wednesday 29 May | Ch. 3, s. 5i–l (life, causality, expression), pp. 68–84 | |
| Wednesday 5 June | Ch. 3, s. 5m–p (correcting empathy, other’s constitution and constitution of one’s self), pp. 84–9 | |
| Wednesday 12 June | Ch. 4 ‘Empathy as the Understanding of Spiritual [geistig] Persons’, ss. 1–3 (spirit/Geist and the cultural sciences/Geisteswissenschaften, spiritual subject, constitution of person through emotion), pp. 91–108 | |
| Wednesday 19 June | Ch. 4, ss. 4–9 (givenness of other, soul/psyche and person, existence of spirit, Dilthey, empathy and constitution of own person, spirit and physical body), pp. 109–118 | |
| Convenors: David Ewing and Senthuran Bhuvanendra | ||
| Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2024 | ||
| Wednesday 24 January | Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative (1984), Intro to Pt. III, ‘The Configuration of Time in Fictional Narrative’ | |
| Wednesday 31 January | Ch. 4: ‘The Fictive Experience of Time’ (intro, Mrs Dalloway, The Magic Mountain) | |
| Wednesday 7 February | Ch. 4 (contd.) (Remembrance of Things Past) | |
| Wednesday 14 February | Introduction to Pt. IV, ‘Narrated Time’ | |
| Wednesday 21 February | Ch. 2 (part), ‘Intuitive Time’ (Husserl) | |
| Wednesday 28 February | Ch. 3 (part), ‘Temporality, Historicality, Within-Time-Ness: Heidegger and the “Ordinary” Concept of Time’ | |
| Wednesday 6 March | Ch. 4, ‘Between Lived Time and Universal Time: Historical Time’ | |
| Wednesday 13 March | Ch. 5, ‘Fiction and Its Imaginative Variations on Time’ | |
| Wednesday 20 March | Ch. 6, ‘The Reality of the Past’ | |
| Wednesday 27 March | Ch. 7, ‘The World of the Text and the World of the Reader’ | |
| Wednesday 3 April | Ch. 8, ‘The Interweaving of History and Fiction’ | |
| Wednesday 10 April | Ch. 10, ‘Towards a Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness’ | |
| Convenors: David Ewing, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra | ||
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Michaelmas Term 2023 |
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Wednesday 25 October |
Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative (1983), Intro to Pt 1, “The Circle of Narrative and Temporality” + ch1 “The Aporias of the Experience of Time: Book 11 of Augustine’s Confessions” |
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Wednesday 1 November |
Ch1 (continuation of discussion) |
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Wednesday 8 November |
Ch2, “Emplotment: A reading of Aristotle’s Poetics” |
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Wednesday 15 November |
Ch3, “Time and Narrative: Threefold Mimesis” |
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Wednesday 22 November |
Intro to Pt 2, “History and Narrative” + ch4, “The Eclipse of Narrative” |
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Wednesday 29 November |
Ch5, “Defenses of Narrative”, intro + “The Breaking up of the Covering Law Model” |
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Wednesday 6 December |
Ch5, cont.: “Narrativist Arguments” |
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Wednesday 13 December |
Ch6, “Historical Intentionality” + conclusion |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Summer 2023 |
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| Wednesday 28 June |
Martin Hägglund, This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free (2019), Introduction, full chapter (pp. 3-36) |
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| Wednesday 5 July |
This Life, Chapter 1: Faith, full chapter (pp. 39-68) |
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| Wednesday 12 July |
This Life, Chapter 2: Love, sections I to III (pp. 69-90) |
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Wednesday 19 July |
This Life, Chapter 2: Love, sections IV to VI (pp. 90-123) |
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Wednesday 26 July |
This Life, Chapter 3: Responsibility, sections I to III (pp. 124-151) |
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Friday 2 August |
This Life, Chapter 3: Responsibility, sections IV to V (pp. 151-170) |
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Wednesday 9 August |
This Life, Chapter 4: Natural and Spiritual Freedom, sections I to III (pp. 173-196) |
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| Wednesday 16 August |
This Life, Chapter 4: Natural and Spiritual Freedom, sections IV to V (pp. 196-211) |
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| Wednesday 23 August |
This Life, Chapter 5: The Value of our Finite Time, sections I to II (pp. 212-237) |
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| Wednesday 30 August |
This Life, Chapter 5: The Value of our Finite Time, sections III to IV (pp. 237-269) |
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| Wednesday 6 September |
This Life, Chapter 6: Democratic Socialism, sections I to IV (pp. 270-301) |
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| Wednesday 13 September |
This Life, Chapter 6: Democratic Socialism, sections V to VI (pp. 301-332) |
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| Wednesday 20 September |
This Life, Conclusion, full chapter (pp. 333-389) |
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| Wednesday 11 October |
Discussion with Martin Hägglund (Yale) |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Easter Term 2023 |
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| Wednesday 3 May |
Michael Rosen, “The History of Philosophy as Philosophy” (2007) |
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| Wednesday 10 May |
Rosen, On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and The Theory of Ideology (1996). Chapter 8: The Theory of Ideology and Beyond “On Voluntary Servitude and the Theory of Ideology” (2000) |
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| Wednesday 17 May |
Rosen, “Must We Return to Moral Realism?” (1991) “Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos? German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity” (2020) |
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Wednesday 24 May |
Rosen, The Shadow of God, Chapter 8: Philosophy in History | |
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Wednesday 31 May |
The Shadow of God, Chapter 9: After Immortality | |
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Friday 2 June |
Graduate Seminar with Michael Rosen (Harvard) 4-6pm: Workshop on The Shadow of God, with speakers Rae Langton (Philosophy, Cambridge), Richard Bourke (History, Cambridge), Charles Turner (Sociology, Warwick) and Daniel Chernilo (Sociology, University Adolfo Ibañez) Organisers: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Marijn Nohlmans |
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Wednesday 7 June |
Paper Discussion: Christopher J Watts (Department of Anthropology, Durham University), “Frame Problems in the Age of Attention Scarcity” |
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| Wednesday 14 June |
Paper Discussion: Apeike Umolu (Faculty of History), “On Black Consciousness” |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2023 |
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| Wednesday 25 January |
Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (1913), First Section (Essence and Eidetic Cognition), ch.1 (“Fact and essence”), §§1-8 |
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| Wednesday 1 February |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike |
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| Wednesday 8 February |
Ideas, First Section, ch.1, §§9-17 |
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| Wednesday 22 February |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike |
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| Wednesday 8 March |
Ideas, Second Section (The Fundamental Phenomenological Consideration), ch.1 (“The thesis of the natural attitude and its suspension”), §§27-32 |
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| Wednesday 22 March |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike |
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| Wednesday 29 March |
Ideas, Second Section, ch.2 (“Consciousness and natural actuality”), §§33-8 |
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| Wednesday 5 April |
Ideas, Third Section (On the Methods and Problems of Pure Phenomenology), ch.1 (“Methodological pre-considerations”), §§63-71 |
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| Wednesday 12 April |
Ideas, Third Section, ch.1 and ch.2 (“Universal structures of pure consciousness”), §§73-7 |
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| Wednesday 19 April |
Ideas, Third Section, ch.2, §§78-80 |
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| Wednesday 26 April |
Ideas, Third Section, ch.2, §§81-6 |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Michaelmas 2022 |
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| Wednesday 9 November |
Husserl, Logical Investigations (1900-1/1913) I (Expression and Meaning), ch.1 (“Essential distinctions”), §§1-14 |
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| Thursday 10 November |
Paper Discussion: Paul Joosse (Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong) and Dominik Zelinsky (University of Copenhagen) on “Sharing the Emperor’s New Clothes: Charisma and Imitation in the Case of Volodymyr Zelensky” |
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| Wednesday 16 November |
Husserl, Investigation V (On Intentional Experiences and their ‘Contents’), introduction and ch.1 (“Consciousness as the phenomenological subsistence of the ego and consciousness as inner perception”), §§1-8 |
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Wednesday 23 November |
Investigation V, ch.2 (“Consciousness as intentional experience”), §§9-15 | |
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Wednesday 30 November |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike | |
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Wednesday 7 December |
Investigation V, ch.2, §§16-21 | |
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Wednesday 14 December |
Investigation V, ch.3 (“The matter of the act and its underlying presentation”), §§22-31 | |
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Wednesday 10 January |
Investigation VI (Elements of a Phenomenological Elucidation of Knowledge), ch.1 (“Meaning-intention and meaning-fulfilment”), §§1-8 | |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Late Summer 2022 |
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| Wednesday 14 September |
Iris Marion Young, “Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility and Spatiality” (1980) |
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| Wednesday 21 September |
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” (1988) |
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Wednesday 28 September |
Butler, “Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty” (2006) | |
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Wednesday 5 October |
Sara Ahmed, “Introduction: Find Your Way” and “Sexual Orientation”, in Queer Phenomenology: Objects, Orientations, Others (2006) | |
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Wednesday 12 October |
Gayle Salamon, “The Sexual Schema: Transposing and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception” in Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010) | |
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Convenors: David Ewing and Orsolya Petocz |
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Summer 2022 |
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| Wednesday 13 July |
Claude Lefort, “Thinking Politics” (1963) |
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| Wednesday 20 July |
Lefort, “The Permanence of the Politico-Theological?” (1981) |
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| Wednesday 27 July |
Lefort, “The Death of Immortality?” (1982) |
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| Wednesday 3 August |
Lefort, “The Question of Democracy” (1983) and “The Logic of Totalitarianism” (1980) |
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| Wednesday 10 August |
Lefort, “Hannah Arendt and the Question of the Political” (1985) and “Reversibility: Political Freedom and the Freedom of the Individual” (1986 |
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Wednesday 17 August |
Lefort, “Rereading The Communist Manifesto” (1986) | |
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Wednesday 24 August |
Lefort, “Politics and Human Rights” (1980) and “Human Rights and the Welfare State” (1984) |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Easter Term 2022 |
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| Wednesday 11 May |
Elías José Palti, ‘The “Theoretical Revolution” in Intellectual History’ (2014) & ‘From Ideas to Concepts to Metaphors: The German Intellectual Tradition and the Complex Fabric of Language’ (2010) |
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Wednesday 18 May |
Palti, “The Theological Genesis of the Political” in An Archaeology of the Political (2017) | |
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Wednesday 25 May |
Discussion with Elías José Palti (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires) | |
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Wednesday 1 June |
Palti, “Koselleck – Foucault: The Birth and Death of Philosophy of History” | |
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Wednesday 8 June |
Paper Discussion: Sebastian Raza-Mejia (Department of Sociology), “The Normative Turn in Sociological Theory: Sociology’s Garden of the Forking Paths” (co-authored with Daniel Chernilo) | |
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Wednesday 15 June |
Paper Discussion: Zach Freig (Faculty of History), “A Tale of Two Primacies: the Social, the Political, and Logical Methods in Twentieth-Century France” | |
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Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2022 |
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| Wednesday 26 January |
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (1945), Part One, Section III (“The Spatiality of One’s Own Body and Motricity”) and Part Two, Section II, Subsection A (“Up and Down”) |
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| Wednesday 2 February |
Phenomenology of Perception, Part One, Section IV (“The Synthesis of One’s Body”) and Section VI (“The Body as Expression, and Speech”) |
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| Wednesday 9 February |
Merleau-Ponty, “Cézanne’s Doubt” (1948) |
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| Wednesday 16 February |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike |
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| Wednesday 23 February |
Merleau-Ponty, “On the Phenomenology of Language” (1951) |
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Wednesday 2 March |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike | |
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Wednesday 9 March |
Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence” (1952) | |
| Wednesday 16 March |
“Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence” (1952) |
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Wednesday 23 March |
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike | |
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Wednesday 30 March |
Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind” (1960) | |
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Wednesday 6 April |
Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (1964), Chapter 1 (“Reflection and Interrogation”) | |
| Wednesday 13 April |
Paper Discussion: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University), “The Politics of Imagination: Critical Theory and Realistic Utopias”. |
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| Wednesday 20 April |
The Visible and the Invisible, Chapter 1 |
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| Wednesday 27 April |
The Visible and the Invisible, Chapter 4 (“The Intertwining – The Chiasm”) |
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| Wednesday 4 May |
Institution and Passivity (1954-55), Part 1 (“Institution in Personal and Public History”) |
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Convenors: Daniele Garancini, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Michaelmas Term 2021 |
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| Thursday 14 October |
Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (1966) |
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| Thursday 21 October |
Derrida, “Différance” (1968) |
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| Thursday 28 October |
Foucault, “The Human Sciences” from The Order of Things (1966) |
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| Thursday 4 November |
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Value (1913-16), ch2, section A: “The A Priori and the Formal in General” |
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| Thursday 11 November |
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics, ch2, section B: “The Non-Formal A Priori in Ethics” |
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Thursday 18 November |
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics, ch6, section A (“On the Theoretical Conception of the Person in General”), subsections on reason, ego, transcendental apperception, act, object, consciousness, world and God |
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Thursday 25 November |
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics, ch6, section A, subsection on lived body, environment and ego | |
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Thursday 2 December |
No meeting due to UCU strike | |
| Thursday 9 December | Paper Discussion: Tingwen Li (Xiamen University), "Deception, Correction, and Affect Theory—On Edith Stein’s Pedagogical Empathic Acts" | |
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Thursday 16 December |
Scheler, “The Essence and Concept of a Sociology of Culture”, from Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge (1924) | |
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Convenors: Daniele Garancini, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Summer 2021 |
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| Thursday 24 June |
Paul Ricœur, The Voluntary and the Involuntary (1950), “General Introduction: Question of Method”, sections 1 and 2 |
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| Thursday 1 July |
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part I, ch1, intro and ss1-2 (on decision) |
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| Thursday 8 July |
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part I, ch 1, s3 and ch2, introduction and s1, subsection 1 (on motives, the body and the nature of need) |
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| Thursday 15 July |
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part II, ch1 (on acting and moving) |
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| Thursday 22 July |
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part III, ch2, s2 (on the unconscious) Background reading: Part III, ch1, s1 and s2, subsection 1 (on the problem and structure of consent), pp341-7 |
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| Thursday 29 July |
Ricœur, Fallible Man (1960), Preface and ch1 (on method, the “pathétique” of misery and reflection) |
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| Thursday 5 August |
Fallible Man, ch2 (applying Kant’s transcendental synthesis), |
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| Thursday 12 August |
Fallible Man, ch3, intro and s1 (on “practical synthesis” and character), and conclusion (on the concept of fallibility) |
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| Thursday 19 August |
Ricœur, The Symbolism of Evil (1960), Part I, intro (on methodology for study of symbols) |
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| Thursday 26 August |
The Symbolism of Evil, Part I, ch1, ss1-3 (on symbols of defilement) and ch2, s5 (on the relation to symbols of sin) Background reading: Part I, conclusion (on relations between symbols), pp151-7 |
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| Thursday 2 September |
The Symbolism of Evil, Part II, intro (on symbolic function of myth) and conclusion (“The symbol gives rise to thought”) |
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| Thursday 9 September |
Talk: Barnaby Aspray (University of Oxford), "The Keystone of Ricœur’s Thought: Finitude and What Lies Beyond" |
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Thursday 16 September |
Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism" Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism |
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| Thursday 23 September |
Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (cont.) |
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| Thursday 30 September |
Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (cont.) |
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| Thursday 7 October |
Jacques Derrida, “The Ends of Man” |
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Convenors: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Easter Term 2021 |
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| Thursday 29 April |
Hans Blumenberg, Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960) and “Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality” (1979) |
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| Thursday 6 May |
Blumenberg, “Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality" |
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| Thursday 13 May |
Blumenberg, “Theory of Nonconceptuality” (excerpt, c.1975) |
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| Thursday 20 May |
“Theory of Nonconceptuality" |
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| Thursday 27 May |
“Theory of Nonconceptuality" |
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| Thursday 3 June |
Blumenberg, Shipwreck with Spectator |
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| Thursday 10 June |
Paper Discussion: Samantha Matherne (Harvard), “The Status of Art in Cassirer’s System of Culture” (2021) |
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| Friday 11 June |
Talk: Samantha Matherne, “Cassirer on Art and Self-Knowledge |
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Convenors: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2021 |
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| Thursday 4 February |
Ernst Cassirer, The Logic of the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaften), Ch.1, “The subject matter of the humanities”, part 1 |
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| Thursday 11 February |
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 1, part 2 |
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| Thursday 18 February |
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 2, “Perception of things and perception of expression” |
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| Thursday 25 February |
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 2 |
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| Thursday 4 March |
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 3, “Nature-concepts and culture-concepts”, part 1 |
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| Thursday 11 March |
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 3, part 1 + part 2 |
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| Thursday 18 March |
Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol.3, ch.2 “The phenomenon of expression as the basic factor in the perceptive consciousness” |
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| Thursday 1 April |
Shaun Gallagher (2008) “Philosophical Antecedents of Situated Cognition” |
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| Thursday 15 April |
Paper Discussion: Daniele Garancini (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), “Cassirer's Naturalism, Precious yet Forgotten, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kantian Philosophy” |
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Convenors: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Michaelmas Term 2020 |
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| Thursday 8 October |
Friedrich Albert Lange, The History of Materialism, 2nd book, 2nd section, Ch.1: “Materialism and Exact Research" |
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| Thursday 22 October |
2nd book, 3rd section, Chapter 3: “Scientific Psychology” |
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| Thursday 5 November |
2nd book, 3rd section, Chapter 4: “The Physiology of the Sense Organs and the World as Representation" |
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| Thursday 19 November |
2nd book, 4th section, Chapter 1: “Political Economy and Dogmatic Egoism” |
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Convenors: Matt Bennett and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Summer 2020 |
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| Monday 20 July |
Edith Stein, The Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities, First Treatise, Ch. I: "Causality in the Realm of Pure Experiences" |
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| Monday 27 July |
Stein, First Treatise, Ch. V: "The Intermeshing of Causality and Motivation", sections 1-4 |
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| Monday 3 August |
Stein, Second Treatise, Ch. I ("The Experiential Current of the Community"), s3: "The joining of experiences in the current" |
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| Monday 10 August |
Stein, Second Treatise, Ch. II, s2, "The community's life-power and its sources" |
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Convenors: Matt Bennett, Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Easter Term/Summer 2020 |
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Tuesday 12 May |
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part I, Chapter 1, section 1 |
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Monday 18 May |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part I, Chapter 1, sections 2 and 3 (selections) |
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Monday 25 May |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part I, Chapter 2, section 1, subsections A and B |
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Monday 1 June |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part II, Chapter 3 (selections) |
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Monday 8 June |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part II, Chapter 4, section 1 |
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Monday 15 June |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part II, Chapter 4, section 3 |
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Monday 22 June |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part III, Chapter 5, section 1 |
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Monday 29 June |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part III, Chapter 5, section 2 |
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Monday 6 July |
Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part III, Chapter 5, section 3 |
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Convenors: Matt Bennett, Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Easter Vacation/Spring 2020 |
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| Monday 23 March |
Fiona Hughes "A Passivity Prior to Passive and Active: Merleau-Ponty’s Re-reading of the Freudian Unconscious and Looking at Lascaux": |
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| Monday 30 March |
Continuation of Hughes’ paper |
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| Monday 6 April |
Edmund Husserl The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, sections 33-41 |
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| Tuesday 14 April |
Husserl, Crisis sections 42-55 |
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| Tuesday 21 April |
Husserl, Crisis sections 47-55 |
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| Monday 27 April |
Husserl, Crisis sections 57-64 |
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| Monday 4 May |
Husserl, Crisis sections 59-64 |
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Convenors: Matt Bennett, Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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Summer 2019 |
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Wilhelm Dilthey, “General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences” from The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences |
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| Tues 9 July |
Introduction and Section One, Makkreel and Rodi translation, pp142-51 (Gesammelte Schriften 7:120-9) on objective |
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| Tues 16 July |
Section One to Section Two, pp145-55 (7:123-33), on objective apprehension, life and the human sciences |
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| Thurs 25 July |
Section One, part 2 and Section Two, chapter 1, pp149-57 (7:127-35) |
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| Tues 30 July |
Section Two, chapter 1, pp152-60 (7:130-8), on life-experience |
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| Tues 6 August |
Section Two, chapter I, pp155-62 (7:133-40), on life-attitudes, life-experience and lived experience |
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| Tues 13 August |
Section Two, chapters 1 and 2, pp158-66 (7:137-45) |
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| Tues 27 August |
Section Two, chapter 2, pp160-8 (7:139-46) on structural nexus of consciousness, reflection on lived experience, time, mutual understanding, and generality/universality |
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| Tues 3 September |
Section Two, chapters 2 and 3, pp163-70 (7:141-8) on understanding, generality and universality |
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| Tues 10 September |
Section Two, chapters 2 and 3, pp167-74 (7:145-52) |
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Thurs 19 September |
Section Two, chapters 3 and 4, pp169-75 (7:147-53) on objectivity |
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| Thurs 26 September |
Section Two, chapter 4, part 1, pp170-8 (7:148-56) |
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Convenors: Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
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