CIRCULATED ON BEHALF OF DR. KURT LAMPE
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK
QUERIES TO: clkwl(at)bristol.ac.uk
Dear colleagues,
From August 18-20 2016 we will hold the second workshop of the international research network, Continental Stoicisms: Beyond Reason and Wellbeing. The goal of this project is not simply to map how continental authors have received Stoicism, but rather to consider how continental approaches can enrich our understanding of Stoicism’s theoretical, ethical, therapeutic and political importance in antiquity and today, and how renewed engagement with Stoic texts and scholarship can enrich continental philosophies.
This workshop will focus on the German tradition since Wilhelm Dilthey, which we take to include not only Germanophone philosophers in Europe (e.g. Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Hans Blumenberg, Peter Sloterdijk), but also émigrés and philosophers in other countries working in the same broad traditions (e.g. Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas). Of course, we are fully cognizant that many contemporary philosophers draw inspiration from diverse traditions, and will happily consider papers that cross linguistic and national borders! Moreover, we draw no firm distinction between scholarship and philosophy, so that scholarly work on Stoicism by (e.g.) Franz Brentano, Ludwig Stein, Günter Abel, or Max Pohlenz could also be relevant. However, we are not interested in papers that focus exclusively on the historical correctness of interpretations. Our focus is on exploring how dialogue between these traditions can be poetically and philosophically interesting.
The venue will be the University of Miami (Florida, USA). We invite abstracts in English or German of no more than 400 words for papers of 40 minutes delivery time, which should be emailed to Kurt Lampe at clkwl(at)bristol.ac.uk. We have extended the deadline to Friday April 1. You may direct any questions about the suitability of topics to the same address. Submissions from graduate students are most certainly welcome.
Through the generosity of the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom, we are able to offer financial assistance to any speakers who do not have travel budgets at their own institutions.
Kurt Lampe
Senior Lecturer in Classics
Stoicism & Continental Philosophy
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