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CFP: 19th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society
CALL FOR PAPERS 19th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society Hosted by Texas A&M University, November 28-30, 2012 This year’s keynote speaker will be Eduardo Mendieta. Mendieta is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. Over the last decade he has written and edited a dozen books dealing with the Frankfurt School, contemporary Latin American philosophy, and issues relating to religion, globalization, and global justice. His most recent monograph is entitled Global Fragments: Globalizations,...
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Philosophy in Black: African Philosophy as a Negritude pp. 1-19(19) Author: Jacques, Tomaz Carlos Flores Abstract African philosophy, as a negritude, is a moment in the postcolonial critique of European/Western colonialism and the bodies of knowledge that sustained it. Yet a critical analysis of its’ original articulations reveals the limits of this critique and more broadly of postcolonial studies, while also pointing towards more radical theoretical possibilities within African philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay...
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Celebrating the Critique’s Fiftieth Anniversary pp. 1-16(16) Author: Aronson, Ronald Abstract When published, Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason appeared to be a major intellectual and political event, no less than a Kantian effort to found Marxism, with far-reaching theoretical and political consequences. Claude Levi-Strauss devoted a course to studying it, and debated Sartre’s main points in The Savage Mind ; Andre Gorz devoted a major article to explaining its importance and key concepts in New Left...
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18th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society Hosted by TÉLUQ, Montréal – April 27-29, 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS — APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS This year’s keynote speaker will be Régine Robin. Robin is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She is an historian and sociologist who also writes novels and essays. In her work, she explores questions related to collective and individual memory, Jewishness, city dwelling, as well as...
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Table of Contents Nausea, Melancholy and the Internal Negation of the Past pp. 1-16(16) Author: Clayton, Cam Untrue to One’s Own Self: Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego pp. 17-34(18) Author: Garcia, Iker Thinking Things: Heidegger, Sartre, Nancy pp. 35-53(19) Author: Morin, Marie-Eve Sartre & the Other: Conflict, Conversion, Language & the We pp. 54-77(24) Author: Rae, Gavin Sartre’s Theater of Resistance: Les Mouches and the Deadlock of Collective Responsibility pp. 78-95(18) Author: Ryder, Andrew Book...
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Existentialism and Art-Horror pp. 1-23(23) Author: Hanscomb, Stuart Abstract This article explores the relationship between existentialism and the horror genre. Noël Carroll and others have proposed that horror monsters defy established categories. Carroll also argues that the emotion they provoke – ‘art-horror’ – is a ‘composite’ of fear and disgust. I argue that the sometimes horrifying images and metaphors of Sartre’s early philosophy, which correlate with nausea and anxiety, have a...
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CFP: 17th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: JUNE 30, 2009. Please e-mail a 2 page abstract of your paper as an attachment (in .doc format) to cdaigle@brocku.ca For panel submissions, please submit an abstract for the whole panel as well as abstracts of each individual paper. These will be forwarded to the Program Committee for blind refereeing. See original CFP for more...
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17th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society Hosted by the University of Memphis – November 19-21, 2009 Le 17e Colloque de la Société sartrienne de l’Amérique du Nord University of Memphis, du 19 au 21 novembre 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS — APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS At this year’s conference we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason as well as 25 years of NASS. Our keynote speaker will be Robert J. C. Young, a leading...
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