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After Existentialism
UK Sartre Society conference 2017
Maison Française d’Oxford
Tuesday 18th July
Keynote speaker
Professor Christina Howells (Oxford)
Call For Abstracts
How have the central ideas of Beauvoir and Sartre been taken up, modified, and extended in subsequent philosophical and theoretical writings? To what extent can major works of philosophy and theory published from the immediate post-war period
up to the present day be understood as continuations of existentialist ideas, despite perhaps being framed in opposition to existentialism or expounded entirely without reference to existentialism? And how might new readings of French existentialist works
help to refine the ideas in these more recent works and to resolve problems that can be raised in objection to them?
We invite abstracts of papers addressing these questions in relation to phenomenology and philosophical psychology, moral and political philosophy, feminism and race theory, literary and aesthetic theory, and any other strands of French existentialism.
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 30 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions.
Our keynote speaker will be Professor Christina Howells, author of Mortal Subjects: Passions of the Soul in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought (2011), Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (1998), and Sartre: The Necessity of
Freedom (1988), editor of French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader (2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (1992), and coeditor of Stiegler and Technics (2013).
Abstracts should be fully prepared for anonymous review and emailed as Word document attachments to:
The closing date for submissions is 31st January 2017.
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