As the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network grows, I hope to someday put on events like this:
‘A Night of Philosophy,’ 12 Hours of a Mental Marathon
Reading Group Reminder: Tonight, Žižek on Hegel (part deux!)
27 AprThis week the reading group will be taking a look at the second half (roughly p. 219 until the end) of Slavoj Žižek’s chapter, “Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today?”
Looking Ahead: Next week we will be looking at John Caputo’s “Is there an Event in Hegel?”
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet or if you missed a few meetings, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
When/where: 8:00pm, Tinder Bar + Kitchen, Lawrenceville
CFP for the 2nd annual conference is up!
23 AprBig news! The CFP for the 2nd annual conference is up and ready for submissions (due July 15th)!
Already the excellent philosopher Fred Evans (Duquesne University) and the amazing podcast, The Partially Examined Life (http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/) have signed up to join us!
Here is a brief outline of the theme:
The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Conference, “(un)commons: theory and public space.” Devoted to a critical examination of the public sphere, the conference is seeking papers and artworks that deal with philosophy, criticism, and analysis of public space, as well as those which deal with philosophy, criticism, and analysis in public space.
Towards the end of interdisciplinary collaboration, this conference invites contributions from a range of disciplines including philosophy, architecture, geography, psychology, religious studies, communication, rhetoric, and sociology, among others. Additionally, we strongly encourage artists and performers whose work deals with the notion of the “public” or the “common” to submit samples or descriptions of works in any medium—visual, musical, performance, installation, etc. We will accept paper and panel proposals on any topic relevant to continental philosophy, and particularly encourage those that seek to cross the bounds between multiple disciplines.
Additionally, since the conference will be joined by a live recording of an episode of “The Partially Examined Life” (http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/), we strongly encourage those whose work deals with the “new media”—including podcasts, blogs, youtube, etc.—to join us.
Full CFP available as a pdf here
Reading Group Tomorrow (Monday): Žižek on Hegel
20 AprThis week the reading group will be taking a look at the first half (roughly pp. 195-219) of Slavoj Žižek’s “Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today?” Here Žižek will attempt to deconstruct the traditional reading of Hegel, countering with a reading that emphasizes the materialism, contingency, and retroactivity at the heart of Hegel’s project. Ever wonder if you could change the past? Come on over tomorrow night, and you will find out that you can! (no time machine necessary)
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet or if you missed a few meetings, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
When/where: 8:00pm, Tinder Bar + Kitchen, Lawrenceville
Malabou on Hegel (and other reminders).
12 AprFirst: after last week’s slog through an unexpectedly long Derrida text (my bad), we will take it a little lighter this week with a chapter out of Malabou’s The Future of Hegel, and ask: can sublation (Aufhebung) itself be plastic? In other words — and to return to the question that has haunted this entire spring — is there room for continegency in Hegel’s philosophy, or is Hegel’s thought truly the violent, dominating force that he is often said to be?
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
Second: this wednesday is the last day to send in abstracts or papers for the 2015 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences which is meeting in Atlanta. I’ll be there, you should be there too!
Third: This Friday, C.D.C. Reeve of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will be giving a lecture at Duquesne University as part of the philosophy department’s speaker series.
Plastic Hegel… get it.
Reading Group Tonight! – Jacques Derrida on Hegel
6 AprGreetings readers! This week we will be meeting, once again, at Tender at 8:00pm. We are now full steam ahead into continental philosophy’s reappropriation of Hegel, and will tonight be looking at Derrida’s preface to Catherine Malabou’s The Future of Hegel.
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
Reading Group Tonight! – Judith Butler
30 MarGreetings readers! This week we will be meeting, once again, at Tender at 8:00pm. Having spent the last month getting an introduction to Hegel and his French interpretation, we are now ready to jump into the continental appropriation of his work over the last few decades. First up, Judith Butler!
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
Kojève Discussion Tonight
23 MarJust as a reminder, the PCPN reading group is moving to a new location. Since Industry wasa bit loud, we have switched over to Tender (directly across the street), which was totally swanky and quite a bit quieter. So, we shall meet there tonight at 8:00pm, don’t miss it!
Tonight, as per our schedule, we will be tackling Kojève’s “In Place of and Introduction” which offers a hugely influential interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology, particularly the Master/Slave dialectic.
As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.
download pdfs: HERE
I will never be as cool as Kojève.
Reading Group is moving! (across the street)
16 MarSorry for the late notice, yall; but, reading group is moving to a new location. Last week, Industry was booked up, so we checked out Tender (directly across the street), which was totally swanky and quite a bit quieter. So, we shall meet there tonight at 8:00pm, don’t miss it!
Tonight, as per our schedule, we will be tackling Hegel’s “Master/Slave Dialectic,” an incredibly famous, and reasonably short passage from the Phenomenology of Spirit, which was to become the central text in his 20th century French reception (as we will see next week).
pdfs: HERE
Reading Group Tonight!
9 MarReading group kicked off with a bang last week. Be sure to stop in tonight for what is sure to be some exciting discussion of the second half of the preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The big debate last week — and which is likely to continue into tonight — is whether it is possible to read Hegel otherwise than as the totalitarian systematizer that he is often said to be.
When: 8:00pm
Where: Industry Public House, Lawrenceville
pdfs: HERE
