Progressive Confucianism & Its Critics (Papers)
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Conceptuality and Marx’s Concept of Productive Labor
Conceptuality and Marx’s Concept of Productive Labor
Rebekah Rosenfeld
PhD Student, Philosophy of Religions
Respondent: William Underwood
PhD Candidate, Philosophy of Religions
Hosted by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link as well as the password to access the paper, please email Tyler Neenan (tjneenan@uchicago.edu).
Tuesday, February 15th, 12:30PM (Virtual Event)
The paper may be accessed here.
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators John Marvin (johnmarvin@uchicago.edu) or T
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The Idol and Modernity in Nietzsche and Marion
Mat Messerschmidt
Ph.D. Candidate, The Committee on Social Thought
The Idol and Modernity in Nietzsche and Marion
Respondent: Xinyue Zhang
Ph.D. Student, Committee on Social Thought
This paper (this chapter) explores the meaning of modernity for Nietzsche, arguing that modernity is, for him, a crisis that involves a kind of physiological overload or overstimulation. The real catastrophe of modernity, however, lies not in this overload itself, but in the modern idols that serve to protect us against utter overwhelming. Referring to Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological treatment of idolatry, I investigate the meaning of the word “idols” in the phrase “Twilight of the Idols,” arguing that the idol serves as a buffer against the event of Becoming, and that the last man is the individual who, through the idolatrous survival mechanisms of modernity, evades Becoming entirely, threatening to sever humanity from the source of its vitality permanently.
The paper may be accessed here.
Tuesday, February 8th, 12:30 PM, Swift 200
Hosted by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago.
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators John Marvin (johnmarvin@uchicago.edu) or T
The Idol and Modernity in Nietzsche and Marion (Paper)
Rethinking Luther’s Political Theology
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Kristof Oltvai
PhD Student, Philosophy of Religions
Rethinking Luther’s Political Theology
The legacy of Martin Luther’s political theology is contested in the philosophy of religion. More contemporary voices like Žižek and Mjaaland have begun challenging the older, intensely critical readings of Engels, Adorno, and Fromm, but the former authors’ defenses of Luther are underdeveloped. This study aims to fill this lacuna and argues that Luther’s critiques of revolutionary prophetism go hand in hand with his challenge to Rome’s magisterial authority. Both, for the reformer, constitute forms of ‘subjectivism.’ The objective Word’s standing over against the congregation is what guarantees the latter as a site of deliberative rationality. In order to see why this is the case, however, we cannot look only at Luther’s explicitly political writings, but also to his rejection of memorialism in the Eucharistic controversy.
The paper may be accessed here.
Tuesday, January 25th, 12:30 PM, Swift 403
This workshop will focus on the pre-circulated paper and will be largely discussion-based. During the workshop, Kristof will present an expanded version of the first section (on Luther’s conception of the freedom of the conscience).
Hosted by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop at the University of Chicago.
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators John Marvin (johnmarvin@uchicago.edu) or T
Rethinking Luther’s Political Theology (Paper)
Between Self and No-Self: Some Phenomenological Considerations
Friday, December 3rd – 4:30PM
Prof. David W. Johnson
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
Between Self and No-Self: Some Phenomenological Considerations
The Philosophy of Religions Workshop is pleased to host Prof. David W. Johnson of Boston College, a renowned scholar of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and modern Japanese philosophy. Prof. Johnson will be presenting an ongoing project he plans to give as a talk at a conference next year, the draft of which is attached below. The talk concerns the No-Self idea in Buddhist thought, attempting “to show how it may be possible
to reconcile the reality of the self with a particular interpretation of the no-self doctrine.”
Prof. Johnson will be presenting an abridged, extemporized version of the talk presented in the draft, and then leading a discussion on the issues at hand with the second half of our time. He is interested to hear especially from scholars of Buddhist philosophy who may be able to enrich and refine his engagement with those materials. Reading the draft (attached below) before the presentation and discussion is encouraged, but not necessary for attendance.
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators John Marvin (johnmarvin@uchicago.edu) or T
An Exegesis of the Absurd: Kierkegaard On Faith & Hegelian Philosophy
Erica Lavista
MAPH Student, University of Chicago
An Exegesis of the Absurd: Kierkegaard On Faith & Hegelian Philosophy
Friday, October 19th
Pizza and beverages will be provided.
Swift Hall Room 403
This workshop will focus on a pre-circulated paper and will be largely discussion-based.
Please contact tjneenan@uchicago.edu for the paper.
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators John Marvin (johnmarvin@uchicago.edu) or Tyler Neenan (tjneenan@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
THE ONE AND THE OTHERS
Andrew Cutrofello
Professor, Loyola University Chicago
THE ONE AND THE OTHERS: AN ESSAY ON SPECULATIVE ANTINOMIANISM
This is a draft of the second chapter of a work in progress called “The One and the Others: An Essay on Speculative Antinomianism.” In the book Andrew Cutrofello develops a way of thinking about antinomies. The book is structured as a series of responses to the antinomies presented in Plato’s Parmenides. In this chapter, Cutrofello focuses on the antinomies Parmenides deduces from the hypothesis “If the One is.” He contrasts Graham Priest’s characterization of such antinomies as true contradictions with Dante’s characterization of Christian paradoxes as merely apparent contradictions.
Tuesday, October 12th, 1:30PM CT
Lunch will be provided.
Swift Hall Room 403
This workshop will focus on a pre-circulated paper (available here) and will be largely discussion-based.
Please contact tjneenan@uchicago.edu for the paper password.
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The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators John Marvin (johnmarvin@uchicago.edu) or Tyler Neenan (tjneenan@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.