Conference on Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature

Andrea Gambarotto (Post-doc) and Olivier Depré (Professor), both members of the Center for Phenomenological Studies, are leading a conference on Hegel’s Naturphilosophie. See poster & program below.

Programme
26 Octobre, Après-midi
15:00 O. Depré (UCL), Introduction
15:30 A. Gambarotto (UCL), Comment lire la philosophie de la nature de Hegel aujourd’hui
16.15 Pause café
16:45 D. Wittmann (Lyon), Peut-on parler de naturalisme hégélien ?
17h30 O. Petteni (ULg), Naturphilosophie hégélienne, cosmologie et corps textuels

27 Octobre, Matin
9:30 A. Stanguennec (Nantes), Hegel et la Naturphilosophie romantique
10:15 G. Gérard (UCL), La place de la philosophie de la nature dans le système
11:00 Pause café
11:30 C. Bouton (Bordeaux Montaigne), Nature et histoire chez Hegel
12:15 O. Depré (UCL), Conclusion des travaux

New CFP : « Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context »

The Center for Phenomenological Studies (CEP), together with the Department of Philosophy of the Istanbul 29 Mayis University and the Institute for Islamic Sciences and Modern Oriental Philology of the University of Bern, organizes an important conference in May 2018 on the following topic: « Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context/L’herméneutique philosophique en contexte islamique ». This meeting will take place at UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Hereunder you’ll find the CFP with names of keynote speakers programmed, argument, dates, venue, contact info, etc. Please do not hesitate to circulate this information!

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Landgrebe in Louvain (9/2017): Workshop Program

Here is the (near)final version of the program of the international workshop « Exploring Landgrebe’s Contributions to Phenomenology » to be held at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve on 28-28 September. We will talk about Landgrebe, of course!, yet for the sake of clarifying fundamental philosophical issues such as world, language, body, history, Europe, etc. We shall also speak of Husserl, Heidegger, and Patocka, among others. Speakers are coming from many places and all are warmly welcomed!

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Festschrift Taminiaux

Veronique Foti and Pavlos Kontos recently edited a Festschrift for Prof. em. Jacques Taminiaux, founder and former director of our Center for Phenomenological Studies. Authors include Shaun Gallagher, Fabio Ciaramelli, Danielle Lories, Rosemary Lerner, Mark Wrathall, Pol Vandevelde, Stephen Watson, Babeth Babich, Sharon Rider, Janet Donohue, Paul Bruno, Françoise Dastur, and the editors. Most of them were former students of Taminiaux in Boston or Louvain-la-Neuve.

Vers une définition de la philosophie : Heidegger 1919

Ce 18 mai 2017 paraît la traduction française du volume 56/57 des Oeuvres complètes de Heidegger : Zur Bestimmung der Philosophie. Sophie-Jan Arrien (Laboratoire de philosophie continentale, Université Laval) et Sylvain Camilleri (Centre d’études phénoménologiques, Université catholique de Louvain) ont co-traduit ce volume. Nous vous laissons découvrir plus bas la présentation de l’éditeur et attirons votre attention sur un article publié récemment dans BibliObs par Michaël Foessel et Jean-Claude Monod, directeurs de la collection L’Ordre philosophique au Seuil : « Pourquoi nous publions Heidegger aujourd’hui : Le Seuil s’explique« .

Présentation de l’éditeur

Qu’est-ce que philosopher en temps de crise ? Suffit-il de recourir aux « valeurs » pour échapper à la détresse du présent ? Quels sont les liens entre la pensée, la science et la vie ?

Ces questions sont au cœur des deux premiers cours de Martin Heidegger prononcés à l’université de Fribourg en 1919, au lendemain de la défaite allemande. Ces leçons marquent la toute première expression publique d’une pensée qui cherche les mots pour se dire et une méthode pour accéder à son domaine. Le jeune Heidegger débat avec ses contemporains, surtout les philosophes néokantiens, de la notion de « culture » qui a perdu de son évidence après quatre années de déferlement de violence. De là l’ébauche d’une réflexion sur l’essence de l’Université qui trouvera son achèvement catastrophique dans le Discours du rectorat de 1933. Derrière la critique du concept de la culture et des « valeurs » pointe pourtant déjà le souci de rapporter la philosophie au vécu dans sa dimension quotidienne, le plus souvent occultée par la théorie de la connaissance. Au-delà du contexte historique, ces cours annoncent sur un mode clair et pédagogique les gestes théoriques qui seront déployés dans Être et Temps (1927) : déconstruction de la tradition philosophique, interrogation sur le sens de l’historicité, analyse de la vie facticielle (qui ne se nomme pas encore « existence »), souci de retour aux « choses mêmes » par-delà les objectivations de la science, lien essentiel entre le sujet et le monde. À ce titre, ces cours constituent un document exceptionnel pour approcher une œuvre aussi essentielle que controversée.

La pensée de Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), dont l’œuvre publiée traverse le XXe siècle, a profondément marqué la philosophie des dernières décennies tout en étant régulièrement l’objet de vifs débats en raison de l’engagement, un temps, du philosophe en faveur du parti national-socialiste.

Traduit de l’allemand par Sophie-Jan Arrien et Sylvain Camilleri.

Bulletin heideggérien # 7

Avec un peu de retard par rapport aux années précédentes, la septième livraison du Bulletin heideggérien est désormais disponible. Vous la trouvez sur le blog du Centre d’études phénoménologiques et bientôt aussi sur la page de l’Institut supérieur de philosophie de l’UCL qui lui est consacrée. Vous y trouverez notamment, outre la bibliographie 2016, un bref entretien avec Dipesh Chakrabarty, une nécrologie de William J. Richardson par Thomas Sheehan, et de nombreuses recensions.

Le tout préparé par Christophe Perrin et Sylvain Camilleri avec la collaboration de nombreux chercheurs internationaux — Qu’ils en soient remerciés ! Wenjing Cai, Jill Drouillard, Kata Moser, Young-Hwa Seo, Claudia Serban et Yuliya Aleksandrovna Tsutserova ; Iulian Apostolescu, Patricio Brickle, Claudio Calabrese, Benoît Donnet, Jean-Sébastien Hardy, Celso Marques Jr., Francesco Paolo de Sanctis, Tziovanis Georgakis, Urs Goesken, Jean-Sébastien Hardy, Takashi Ikeda, François Jaran, André Laks, Stany Mazurkiewicz, Christopher Sauder, Franz-Emmanuel Schürch, Felipe Shimabukuro, Salvatore Spina, Ovidiu Stanciu et Roberto Terzi.

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CFP : « Exploring Landgrebe’s Contributions to Phenomenology » (September 28th-29th)

Organized by the Center for Phenomenological Studies (CEP)

Call for Papers (English/French/German)

 International Workshop

Exploring Ludwig Landgrebe’s

Contributions to Phenomenology

September 28th–29th, 2017

Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The name of Ludwig Landgrebe (1902-1991) is familiar to many phenomenologists. Yet on first thought it is not that easy to situate him within the phenomenological movement. That Landgrebe deserves to be cited in the history of this movement is something that Herbert Spiegelberg (History of the Phenomenological Movement) as well as Bernhard Waldenfels (Das Zwischenreich des Dialogs) made clear. However the task remains to undertake a detailed investigation into his contributions and to assess to what extent they may have shaped our understanding of major phenomenological problems or thinkers such as Husserl or Heidegger, as well as to appreciate how some of these contributions are still highly relevant to today’s phenomenological thinking – should they need to be enriched or criticized.

From 1923 to 1928 Landgrebe was Husserl’s personal assistant in Freiburg while attending Heidegger’s lecture courses. He defended his dissertation on Dilthey in 1927. He passed his Habilitation in Prague in 1935 on A. Marty. There he also met with J. Patocka, with whom he became close friend. In 1939 he settled briefly in Leuven where he came together again with E. Fink, who succeeded him as Husserl’s assistant. The war held Landgrebe away from philosophy until 1945, when he could eventually return to the University, first in Hamburg, then in Kiel, and finally in Cologne, where he directed the Husserl Archives there together with K.-H. Volkmann-Schluck and trained soon-to-be prominent Husserl scholars such as U. Claesges, K. Held, and P. Janssen.

Landgrebe’s contributions to phenomenology are manifold.[1] His work on Husserl’s manuscripts (esp. Erste Philosophie, Ideen II-III, Erfahrung und Urteil) offered key texts that were to deeply influence scholarship. The very same work also made him one the first expert in genetic phenomenology – which he notably interpreted as a radicalization of the transcendental approach to subjectivity. He indeed wrote pioneering and original essays on a whole range of topics such as, i.a., passivity, lifeworld, and the living body. In the same vein he was also one of the first to pay full attention to the problem of history in regard to and within phenomenology, an area of research for which his profound knowledge of and old sympathy for Dilthey can surely account. Since history is hardly separable from metaphysics on the one hand and from politics on the other, Landgrebe also held a serious interest in theology as well as in the idea of dialectics, especially in Hegel and Marx, whom he mostly read in a phenomenological manner. In addition, one should also mention his most elaborated interpretation of the concept of facticity that is to be found in Heidegger’s early philosophy.

It is not exaggerated to say that Landgrebe was a full-fledged phenomenologist. This workshop sets itself the task to reestablish this fact and to lean on Landgrebe’s contributions to phenomenology in order to reinvigorate central questions of our scholarship.

Invited Speakers

Jagna Brudzinska (Cologne)

Karel Novotny (Prague)

Denis Seron (Liège)

Sara Fumagalli (Freiburg)

Ignacio Quepons (Mexico)

Call for Papers

We are interested in papers addressing (but not limited to) the following topics in and out of Landgrebe:

– The origin, meaning and end of transcendental phenomenology

– Husserl & Descartes/Cartesianism

– Issues in genetic phenomenology: experience, passivity, lifeworld, living body, movement, time, historicity, etc.

– Phenomenology & history

– Phenomenology & metaphysics

– Phenomenology & theology

– Phenomenology and dialectics (Hegel, Marx)

– Phenomenology & politics

– Phenomenology & anthropology

– Phenomenology & philosophy of language, esp. Marty

– The concept of facticity

– Dilthey in a phenomenological eye

– Attempts at “matching” Dilthey, Husserl, and Heidegger

– Convergences and divergences between Landgrebe, Patocka, and Fink

Languages

The languages of the conference will be English, French, and German.

Abstract

Please send a title and an abstract (5 to 15 lines) before May 5th, 2017 to the following address: sylvain.camilleri@uclouvain.be. Acceptance or refusal will be notified by May 12th, 2017.

Practical

Unfortunately we cannot cover accommodation and travel costs. We will advise you the cheapest fares for trains, flights and hotels and we will take care of meals during the conference.

If you would like more information, please send an email to: sylvain.camilleri@uclouvain.be

[1] See “Chronologisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Schriften von 1928 bis 1981,” in L. Landgrebe, Faktizität und Individuation. Studien zu Grundfragen der Phänomenologie (Hamburg: Meiner, 1982), 157–162. One should add to this list a seminal work from 1932, which was discovered in the Patocka-Archives and edited by H.-R. Sepp & K. Novotny recently: Der Begriff des Erlebens (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010).

New Journal Issue on Jean Hering

The swiss journal Revue de théologie et de philosophie just published a special issue on one of the earliest pupil of Husserl and Reinach from the Göttingen period, the Alsatian phenomenologist Jean Hering (1890-1960). The issue is directed by Dominique Pradelle (Sorbonne University) and Claudia Serban (University of Toulouse). There are 6 original contributions dealing with phenomenological idealism and realism, connections between phenomenology, theology, and exegesis, as well as on phenomenology of dream. Dr. Rev. Jochim Feldes also gives a thorough description of the Nachlass kept in Strasbourg. All contributions are improved versions of presentations held at a conference organized in 2015 at the Archives Husserl de Paris / Ecole normale Supérieure. Check it out!

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