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Workshop: "Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas"
February 8-10, 2007
Title: “Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas”
Thursday, February 8
|
14.00 |
Welcome |
| 14.10-14.30 |
Karl Verstrynge (University of Brussels): Introduction to the Theme |
| 14.30-15.30 |
Pia Søltoft (University of Copenhagen): The Other – Master or Match? On Ethics and Love in Levinas and Kierkegaard |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Coffee break |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Thomas G. Casey (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome): Retrieving Eros: Beyond Levinas’ Fragile Subject and Kierkegaard’s Religious Subject |
| 16.30-17.00 |
Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida, Orlando): Looking for the Common Watermark: Loving Others in Kierkegaard and Levinas |
| 17.00-17.30 |
Coffee break |
| 17.30-18.00 |
Stine Holte (University of Oslo): Asymmetry and Testimony in Levinas |
| 18.00-18.30 |
Eric Sean Nelson (University of Massachusetts): Kierkegaard, Levinas, and the Possibility of an Asymmetrical Ethics |
Friday, February 9
|
9.00-10.00 |
Rudi Visker (University of Leuven): In Praise of Visibility |
| 10.00-11.00 |
Claudia Welz (University of Copenhagen): Conscious of Conscience? The Invisible Mirror of the Self-Other-Relation |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Magnus Moar (University of Sussex): The Formative Role of the Infinite upon Ethical Subjectivity |
| 12.00-12.30 |
Michael Barber (St. Louis University): Levinas’ Providentially Powerful Self |
| 12.30-14.00 |
Lunch break |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Irina Poleshchuk (University of Helsinki): The Ethical Subject within Levinas’ Concept of Language |
| 14.30-15.00 |
Ákos Krassóy (Universities of Budapest & Leuven): Aesthetics and Ethical Consciousness |
| 15.00-15.15 |
Break |
| 15.15-15.45 |
Stephen Minister (Fordham University): The Absolute Made Relevant: The Possibility of Social Engagement in Kierkegaard and Levinas |
Saturday, February 10
|
9.00-10.00 |
Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen): Subjectivity, Interiority and Exteriority in Kierkegaard and Levinas |
| 10.00-10.30 |
Anne Charlotte Hjorth (University of Århus): Becoming Oneself in Being for the Other. On the Relation between Sensation and Subjectivity in Levinas and Løgstrup |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Evrim Emir (Bilkent University, Ankara): Who is the Other? |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Velga Vevere (University of Latvia, Riga): To be the Other: Techniques of Alienation in Kierkegaard and Levinas |
| 12.00-12.30 |
Plenary discussion and closing remarks |
Sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (CFS).
Organizers: Claudia Welz (clw@hum.ku.dk) and Karl Verstrynge (Karl.Verstrynge@vub.ac.be)