Dr. Brent Robbins, Psychology professor at Point Park University, will be leading a discussion on his paper “A Cultural-Existential Approach to Therapy: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment and its Implications For Therapy.” Click the image to download the paper!
Sixteen hours of an experimental, experiential, fun laboratory, broken into four blocks–Friday evening (may 17), two day-blocks on Saturday (may 18), and Sunday afternoon (may 19)
Sorry for the late notice…
Abstract: Deleuze famously defined philosophy as an activity that consists of the formation or creation of concepts. This paper will examine three intersecting themes that follow from this conception of philosophy. First, concepts are themselves given a temporal character, and the paper will begin by examining Deleuze s theory of time. Second, this new conception of time puts the traditional concept of truth ( in all times and in all places ) in crisis not at the level of its content ( truth changes with time ), but rather at the level of its form: the form of time takes the place of the (universal) form of the true. The false is thereby given a power of its own. Finally, we will examine the theory of thought that motivates Deleuze s conception of philosophy. The fundamental theme of the paper is that, for Deleuze, truth is no longer a timeless universal to be discovered, but a singularity to be created (in time).
“Political and Subjective Freedom: Reading Hannah Arendt with Julia Kristeva”
Ulrika Björk (U of Uppsala) February 21, 2013 Duquesne University, College Hall 104
The Association of Pittsburgh Priests, on the First Sunday of Lent, a time of conversion in our thinking, our Church and our world, will present Dr. Aimee Light: “Roman Catholic Feminist Theology”. Dr.Light will talk about Roman Catholic teaching on “Imago Dei and Incarnational, Feminist Theologies.”
Dr. Light is Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University and Editor of the Journal of Interreligious Dialogue.
The conference is on Sunday, February 17 from 1:30 to 4:30 pm at the Epiphany Administrative Center, 164 Washington Place, Pittsburgh 15219 (next to the Consol Energy Center). Cost:$20 and free for students and low income attendees.
For more information please contact:
Fr. John Oesterle at 412.232.7512 or johnoesterle2@gmail.com
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network 