Nancy Levene
Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University
“Canon, Repetition, and the Opponent: Interpretation in the History of Ideas”
Wednesday, May 8th, 4:30 PM, Swift Common Room
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Kirsten Collins
PhD Student, Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture
That Other Fornication: Jewish Law in the Sources of Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité IV
This paper examines the implications of Judaism’s unremarked presence in the fourth installment of Foucault’s history of sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh. Judaism appears twice in his text, in paraphrases of the early Christian sources through which he attempts to examine the relationship between flesh and spirit, and the conception of subjectivity that he thinks it has produced. Through close readings of John Chrysostom and John Cassian, both within Foucault’s text and outside of it, I attempt to contextualize these references to Judaism, and through them, to examine some gaps in Foucault’s account of “the relation of the self to the self.”
Wednesday, April 24, 12:00 PM, Swift 200
Refreshments provided
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Matthew Peterson
PhD Student, Philosophy of Religions
Freud’s Paul: Pathogenesis and the Question of Historical Truth
Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 PM, Swift 200
Refreshments provided
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Lawrence McCrea
Professor of Asian Studies and Classics, Cornell University
“Reading and Rationality in Late First Millennium Indian Philosophy”
Wednesday, April 10th, 4:30 PM, Swift Common Room
Lawrence McCrea is professor of Asian Studies and Classics at Cornell University. His research concerns the history of Indian philosophy, philosophy of language, and poetics, and has appeared in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, Journal of Hindu Studies, and Journal of the American Oriental Society. Professor McCrea is the author of The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir (2008), Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jñānaśrīmitra on Exclusion (with Parimal Patil, 2010), as well as the co-editor of New Directions in South Asian Studies: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock (2011).
This paper will consider the history of the theory of the preconditions of textual study (abhidheya-prayojana-sambandha), tracing their development from Mīmāmsā to Dharmakīrtian Buddhists to Nyāya, where they are imported into Jayantabhatta’s model of everyday practical rationality.
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