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The Karl Jaspers Society of North America Founded Boston, Massachusetts 1980 Proceedings and Information ______Fall 2005______

Executive Committee 2005 Honorary Member Life Members Alan M. Olson (’05), President and Program Chair Paul Ricoeur* Andrew Gluck Raymond Langley (’07), Vice President Leonard H. Ehrlich Andrew Gluck (’06), Secretary-Treasurer Shigeru Ichige Edith Ehrlich {’05), Member-at-Large Murray McLachlan Gregory J. Walters (’06), Member-at-Large *deceased Herrmann-Josef Seideneck

› N E W S ‹ changes in the Directorate will be announced Jaspers’s Collected Works. Dr. Hans Saner, at year’s end. The Board of Trustees consists the executor of Jaspers’s literary remains, who of Professor Shinji Hayashida, representing edited and published many of Jaspers’s post- the Jaspers Society of Japan, and Leonard H. humous works, informs us that plans for an Ehrlich of the KJSNA. edition of Jaspers’s collected works are under Plans for the publication of papers prepared way. The cooperation of the several publishers for the Fifth International Jaspers Conference of Jaspers’s works has been secured, in partic- (Istanbul) are under way. Königshausen and ular that of his two major publishers, Piper and Neumann, who published the collected papers Springer. Financing seems to be in place, and of the previous three conferences, recently an editorial team assembled. Details of the committed themselves to publishing the new plan will be forthcoming in a later edition of volume as well. the Proceedings. The general topic of the 22. World Congress Editorial work on Jaspers’s collected philo- of Philosophy (Seoul 2008) has been deter- sophical correspondence has been under way mined, and will be announced in the near fu- for some time; publication is expected in the ture. Within the next half year the IAJS will near future. begin planning for the Sixth International ‐‐‐ Jaspers Conference by defining its general top- International Association of Jaspers Soci- ic. Professor Cesana would appreciate sugges- eties. Professor Andreas Cesana (Univ. of tions which may be submitted at the following Mainz) is now the Director of IAJS. Other e-mail address: [email protected]. ‐‐‐

Recent books: 1. Richard Wisser and Leonard H. Ehrlich, eds., Karl Jaspers’ Philoso- phie: Gegenwärtigkeit und Zukunft / Karl Jaspers’s Philosophy: Rooted in the Present, Paradigm for the Future. Papers Presented at 4. International Jaspers Confer- ence, Boston 1998. Königshausen & Neumann (Würzburg 2003). ISBN 3-8260-2601-2. 2. Albrecht Kiel, Fünf Kausalformen zwischen Zufall und Wirklichkeit. Wege von den Naturwissenschaften zur Anthropologie. Ergon (Würzburg 2005). ISBN 3-89913-444-3. Note: A philosophy of science bridging natural science and human studies in part drawing on Jaspers. 3. Suzanne Kirkbright, Karl Jaspers. A Biography. New Haven and London (Yale 2004). ISBN 0-300-10242-9. The Karl Jaspers Society of North America Proceedings and Information Fall 2005

The KARL JASPERS SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA also sponsored and supported by: The Hannah Arendt Circle TOPIC “PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND POLITICS” in conjunction with APA EASTERN DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING, HILTON NEW YORK Session 1 Gibson Suite (Second Floor) Wednesday, December 27, 2005, 9:00–11:00a.m. Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University) Speaker: Michael Zank (Boston University) “The Theological-Political Conundrum and the Context of the Early Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt Speaker: Leonard H. Ehrlich (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) “Arendt, Jaspers, Kant on Evil, Radical and Banal” Comments: Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University-Ottawa)

 KJSNA Annual Business Meeting Following the Session 1 (same room)  Agenda: Report of Officers / Election of two Executive Committee Members / New items

Session 2 Concourse C, Friday, 2005, 1:30 – 4:30p.m. Chair: Andrew Gluck Speaker: Serena Parekh (Boston College) “When the Chips are Down: Arendtian Morality and Human Rights” Speager: Brad Herling (Boston University) “Machedicy-Making: Just War Theory and the Discourse on Evil in an Age of Terror” Comments: Raymond Langley (Manhattanville College)

PLEASE Cut out or printout the payment slip on page 3 to submit your dues and/or contribution. The Karl Jaspers Society of North America Proceedings and Information Fall 2005 Meeting KJSNA and Arendt Circle with APA/Pacific, Portland, OR Portland Hilton, March 22 – 26, 2006 Topic: Philosophy, Religion, Politics Session One (KJSNA) (Time TBA) Session Two (Arendt) (Time TBA) Chair: Helmut Wautischer Chair: Helmut Wautischer Speakers: 1. James Barry: “The Sever- Speakers: 1. Dianna Taylor*: “State(s) ance of Events: Exploring Arendt’s Notion of Confusion: Arendt and Agamben on of Metabolic History” Norm and Exception” 2. TBA 2. Emily Zakin: “Arendt and Comments: Stephen Schulman Kristeva on the Alienation of Judgment” *Dianna Taylor is also planning an “Author Comments: TBA Meets Critics” session (TBA)

Meeting KJSNA and Arendt Circle with APA/Central, Chicago, IL Palmer House Hilton, April 26 – 29, 2006 Topic: Philosophy, Religion, Politics Session One (Time TBA) Session Two (Time TBA) Chair: Alan M. Olson Chair: Dianna Taylor Speakers: 1. Craig M. Nichols: “Be- Speakers: 1. Shadia Drury: “Aquinas yond Liberal and Conservative: Freedom, and the Inquisition” Transcendence, and the Human Condition 2. Lee Cooper: “Arendt in Arendt, Jaspers, and Niebuhr” and the Anti-Political Paradigm of Fabri- 2. Stephen Schulman: cation in Plato’s Philosophy” “Public Forgiveness and Friendship in the Comments: David Pellauer Work of Hannah Arendt” Comments: David Pellauer ------Karl Jaspers Society of North America Yearly Dues are: regular $ 20 or abated $ 10 Please encircle whether your payment represents Dues 2005 Dues 2006 Dues 2005 and 2006 Name ______E-mail ______

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