I suppose Spinoza did consider time illusory, related to the imagination!
Dr. Robert Sinnerbrink
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>>> "David Kaye" <[log in to unmask]> >>>
am I the only one who finds it fascinating that we received this notification for a Spinoza conference that occurred YESTERDAY? Well, either way, it sounds like it would have been nice, so, hey, thanks for letting us know.
>>> "Fruma Mohrer" <[log in to unmask]> 10/29/06 6:05 AM >>>
FROM HERETIC TO HERO: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE IMPACT OF
BARUCH SPINOZA ON THE 350th ANNIVERSARY OF
HIS EXCOMMUNICATION
Sunday, October 29, 2006
DATE: Sunday, October 29, 2006
TIME: 11am - 5pm
VENUE: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, NYC between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
REGISTRATION: Call the Center for Jewish History Box-Office at 917-606-8200
Tickets: $10 Regular, $5 students and seniors
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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is holding a one-day symposium dedicated to exploring the historical reasons, and current implications, of what many scholars consider the most notorious and ultimately influential excommunication in all of Jewish History: the banishment of Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza from the Jewish Community of Amsterdam in 1656.
As the Symposium's Keynote Speaker Professor Jonathan Israel of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study has shown in his seminal and encyclopedic study, Radical Enlightenment, it was Spinoza - not Hobbes or Descartes – who was the true father of the European Enlightenment, as his writings constituted the first comprehensive critique of organized religion and thorough vision of a truly democratic secular society whose primary purpose is the provision of human rights to its citizens and their protection from religious intolerance and totalitarian political rule.
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Spinoza was rediscovered, and embraced as a role model, by Jewish thinkers who were championing the modernization of Judaism and the integration of Jews into the broader European society. Spinoza was claimed as a forerunner of virtually every modern Jewish ideology, from Marxism and labor socialism to Zionism and secular Yiddish culture.
The Symposium will present to the general public the history of Spinoza's unfortunate experiences with religious authorities, both Jewish and Christian and, despite his excommunication, the enduring popularity and influence of his writings today, three and a half centuries since he was banished. The speakers will provide valuable historical perspectives on the dangers of religious intolerance and the vitally important role that political philosophy plays in articulating and protecting human liberties and liberal social and political principles.
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This program is sponsored in part by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding also provided by Pamela Nadler Emmerich and Adam Emmerich.
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Subject: Journal Issue - Janus Head 9.1 (Open Issue)
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JANUS HEAD: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature,
Co Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts
Volume 9.1 (Summer/Fall 2006)
We are very pleased to announce the new issue of "Janus Head," which is now
available on-line at:
http://www.janushead.org
The issue features, among other things, works by Alphonso Lingis, Branka
Arsic, Richard Hoffman, Bernard Andrieu,
Camelia Elias, Steven M. DeLue, Uwe Schmidt-Hess.
Here is a list of the contents of the new issue:
JANUS HEAD (Volume 9, Issue 1)
Open Issue
EDITORIAL
by Brent Dean Robbins
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Editorial.pdf
ESSAYS
"Sublime, Necessarily Sublime, Christine V"
by Marguerite Duras
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Duras.pdf
"Our Uncertain Compassion"
by Alphonso Lingis
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Lingis.pdf
"Bartleby or a Loose Existence: Melville with Jonathan Edwards"
by Branka Arsic
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Arsic.pdf
"Stumbling Unto Grace: Invention and the Poetics of Imagination"
by Camelia Elias
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Elias.pdf
"The Light and the Fogg: Edward Hopper and Paul Auster
by James Peacock
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Peacock.pdf
Moral and Epistemic Ambiguity in Oedipus Rex"
by Havi Hannah Carel
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Carel.pdf
"Martin Buber and Immanuel Kant on Mutual Respect and the Liberal State"
by Steven M. DeLue
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/DeLue.pdf
"Brains in the Flesh: Prospects for a Neurophenomenology"
by Bernard Andrieu
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Andrieu.pdf
"Black Sun: Bataille on Sade"
by Geoffrey Roche
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Roche.pdf
"The New Surrealism: Loft Stories, Reality Television, and Amateur
Dream-Censors"
by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/BotzBornstein.pdf
"The Artist Unbroken"
by Margery E. Capone
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Capone.pdf
"Spatial Melancholia: The Construction of Sensitive Machines"
by Uwe Schmidt-Hess
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/SchmidtHess.pdf
ART
"Vagrant Geometry"
by Uwe Schmidt-Hess
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/SchmidtHess2.html
"Meet Me In the Dark, Meet Me In the Shadows"
by Jennifer Reed
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Reed.html
POETRY
Two poems
by Richard Hoffman
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Hoffman.pdf
Two poems
by Andrew Sneddon
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Sneddon.pdf
Two poems
by Mercedes Lawry
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Lawry.pdf
"Flickering Midnight Yucca in Full Bloom"
by Thomas Quiter
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Quiter.pdf
"Lost Statues"
by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Lee.pdf
"Sounds Stations of the Tokkaido"
by Alexandra Clayton
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Clayton.pdf
"Jug Shots"
by Amy Haddad
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Haddad.pdf
BOOK REVIEWS
"Žižek's Greatest Hits"
Review of "Interrogating the Real"
by Slavoj Žižek
Reviewer: Cristina Laurita
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Zizek.pdf
"Learning Qualitative Research Methods Through Example"
Review of "Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introduction
Through Empirical Studies"
Edited by Constance T. Fischer
Reviewer: Alan Pope
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Fischer.pdf
"If Children Are the Future..."
Review of "All Work and No Play...: How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our
Preschoolers and No Child Left Different"
Edited by Sharna Olfman
Reviewer: Brent Dean Robbins
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Olfman.pdf
"'The swearword, the telegram, the epitaph'"
Review of "The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative
Genre"
by Camelia Elias
Reviewer: Costica Bradatan
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Elias2.pdf
"The Management of Drug Traffic"
Review of "Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics"
by Curtis Marez
Reviewer: Dan Warner
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Marez.pdf
"The Psychoanalyst and the Philosopher"
Review of "The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas
and Lacan"
by David Ross Fryer
Reviewer: Dosky
Reviewer: Ryan A. Mest
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/BloechlKosky.pdf
"What Has Happened to Feminism?"
Review of "Continental Feminism Reader"
by Ann J. Cahill and Jennifer Hansen
Reviewer: Kristen Hennessy
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/CahillHansen.pdf
"A Conundrum of Difference Without Contradiction"
Review of "Madness and Death in Philosophy"
Edited by Ferit Güven
Reviewer: Apple Igrek
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Guven.pdf
CONTRIBUTORS
http://www.janushead.org/9-1/Contributors.pdf
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Senior Editor
Janus Head
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Texas Tech University
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