From thomas.jurkiewicz at sydney.edu.au Tue Jul 27 11:08:11 2021 From: thomas.jurkiewicz at sydney.edu.au (Thomas Jurkiewicz) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 01:08:11 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HDR Reading Group: Reading Gadamer's Truth and Method Message-ID: Dear all, A new HDR reading group begins this Thursday (29th July) on Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method. The group looks to perform a deliberate and careful reading of the entirety of the work, moving from Gadamer's critique of aesthetics and historicism through to his philosophy of language. Participants from all fields are more than welcome. The group meets fortnightly Thursdays at 3:00pm on Zoom. For more information and for a schedule outlining the proposed reading, please contact Thomas Jurkiewicz at thomas.jurkiewicz at sydney.edu.au. Best, Thomas Jurkiewicz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au Thu Jul 29 11:16:48 2021 From: tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:16:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Semester 2 Schedule Message-ID: Dear all, The Critical Antiquities Workshop is back for the second half of the year. Please see the attached flyer for a schedule of events and abstracts for the talks. In our first workshop, we are delighted to host Professor Dennis Schmidt (Western Sydney University) for his paper, ?Thinking and Moral Considerations.? The event will be held on Friday, August 13, 10-11:30am. That translates to the following times elsewhere: Tokyo: Friday, 9am-10:30am Singapore: Friday, 8am-9:30am Los Angeles: Thursday, 5-6:30pm Mexico City: Thursday, 7-8:30pm New York City: Thursday, 8-9:30pm To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for Critical Antiquities Network announcements here. Please note, if you have already subscribed to the mailing list, you will receive the Zoom link and need not sign up again. Here is the abstract: The title of these remarks repeats the title of an essay by Arendt that was published in 1971. In that essay Arendt asks whether thinking ? understood in the broadest sense and not merely as a matter of knowledge ? provides some sort of ?guarantee?, some sort of compelling attachment to a moral sense. Here reflections are largely, but not exclusively, directed to Platonic texts. My intention is to ask this question again by beginning with a closer look at Arendt?s text, but then moving to look at some key Platonic texts ? including some that Arendt does not take up ? that treat this issue. My special concern will be to ask what, if anything, binds us to the good? While the focus of my comments will be centered on Platonic texts and will take Arendt?s text as the guiding impulse for those comments, it will be necessary to refer to some issues in Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, and Agamben in order to unfold some further possibilities. Philosophy has tended to hold tight to the conviction that reason, thinking, truth, and the good matter. Bloch took this conviction as evidence for the importance of the principle of hope. Arendt echoes this in her essay, especially its final words: ?The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge; it is the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And this indeed may prevent catastrophes, at least for myself, in the rare moments when the chips are down.? Since my own conviction in this matter has been badly shaken, this paper is an effort to understand more clearly how it might be renewed. Best wishes, Tristan and Ben Tristan Bradshaw ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network The University of Sydney Department of Classics and Ancient History School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Office: H606, Main Quadrangle | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 406 747 955 tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au | fass.can at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CAW Flyer - Sem 2 2021 - Fair.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 300814 bytes Desc: CAW Flyer - Sem 2 2021 - Fair.pdf URL: From cole at uow.edu.au Thu Jul 29 15:16:51 2021 From: cole at uow.edu.au (Sally Cole) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 05:16:51 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Dr Sophie Frazer, Agora Online Speaker Series, Thursday 5 August, 3.30-5pm AEST Message-ID: The School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong invites you attend the online Agora Speaker Series on Thursday 5 August, 3.30 to 5.00 PM AEST. Register here Dr Sophie Frazer (University of Wollongong) "Speaking brokenly": Reading Romola with Spinoza George Eliot's historical romance Romola (1862-3) has long been considered a failure. An ambitious revivification of Renaissance Florence, with an exacting verisimilitude, Romola has often been judged a failure of style and story. In this paper, I argue that Romola is one of the most affectively intelligent of Eliot's fictional characters. In my reading, I account for the text's reliance upon visual strategies of representation, or what I describe as an aesthetic of visualised mourning, by drawing out the complexity with which Eliot depicts the instability of the optical in Romola. Building upon the work of Moira Gatens, I draw out the ways Eliot gave vitality to Spinoza's philosophy of affect, the philosopher with whose work she felt a peculiar resonance, in crafting the novel's phenomenological contours. Romola allowed Eliot the scope to push to its farthest limit the implications of Spinoza's corporeal imagination. Through being attentive to the correspondences of psychic pain and decentralized perspectival geographies, I will argue that we take seriously the phenomenally descriptive in its own right as performing a different ontology of radical loss, and a different kind of literary criticism. All are welcome to participate. Please find below instructions on how to register for anyone interested to attend. * In order to participate in Agora Speaker Series events, you will be required to register here, you will receive an email confirming your registration. * Prior to the event, registered participants will be contacted with further information, including the Access Code for the Webinar. * Please note that our team will be using Zoom to host this webinar and - if you do not already have Zoom installed it is advised, though not necessary, that you download the software to your device. * This webinar is scheduled to be recorded and will be uploaded to UOW owned websites and/or platforms, noting that the Q&A session may be edited for privacy reasons. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this, please contact us at sola-enquiries at uow.edu.au * The session chair will explain any additional rules and expected norms of engagement to participants at the outset of sessions. 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