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Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy La société canadienne de philosophie continentale Institute for Christian Studies and the University of Toronto, October 10–12, 2013 Congress 2013 Programme and Abstracts Please note: All events will take place in the Jackman Humanities Building (JHB), 170 St. George Street, on the downtown (St. George) campus of the University of Toronto, unless otherwise specified. Veuillez noter : tous les événements auront lieu au pavillon Jackman (JHB), 170 rue St. George, sur le campus central de l’Université de Toronto, sauf indication contraire. Thursday, October 10 Coffee and Registration 2:00 PM– Jackman Humanities Building 3:30 PM Outside JHB 100 Plenary Session JAY LAMPERT 3:30 PM– (UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH) 5:00 PM “AFTER EFFECTS®: EDITING AND PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION” Chair: Shannon Hoff (Institute for Christian Studies) JHB 100 5:00 PM– Reception 7:00 PM JHB 100 Friday, October 11 10:00 AM– Coffee and Registration 10:30 AM Outside JHB 100 –1– LORRAINE MARKOTIC (UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY) SAMIR GANDESHA “NIETZSCHE’S DIONYSIAN (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY) 10:30 AM– IN PAN’S LABYRINTH” “HEGEL’S HOMECOMING OF SPIRIT” 11:15 AM Chair: Tyler Wigg-Stevenson Chair: Casey Ford (Guelph) (Toronto School of Theology) JHB 100 JHB 401 MICHAEL BUTLER (UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS) JEFFREY REID “‘DO NOT ASK WHO I AM AND DO NOT ASK ME (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) 11:15 AM– TO REMAIN THE SAME’: FOUCAULT’S “HEGEL’S COMETS AND MOONS: 12:00 PM DISCONTINUOUS SUBJECT IN THE SYSTEMATIC CRITICISM, IRONY, AND US” ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE” Chair: Ryan Krahn (Guelph) Chair: Lis Paquette (York) JHB 100 JHB 401 Lunch (on your own) 12:00 PM– 2:00 PM Business Meeting in JHB 401 (all are welcome) Plenary Session ESPEN HAMMER 2:00 PM– (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY) 3:00 PM “HUSSERL AND THE INNER-OUTER DISTINCTION” Chair: Marie-Eve Morin (Alberta) JHB 100 PETER GRATTON JAY WORTHY (MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND) (UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA) 3:00 PM– “DECONSTRUCTIVE REALISM: “ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF REFLECTION” IT’S ABOUT TIME” 3:45 PM Chair: Sean Smith (Toronto) Chair: John Caruana (Ryerson) JHB 401 JHB 100 3:45 PM– Coffee Break 4:00 PM Outside JHB 100 MATHIAS WARNES (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA) FERIT GÜVEN “SAINT PAUL AND HÖLDERLIN AT (EARLHAM COLLEGE) 4:00 PM– HEIDEGGER’S FESTIVAL: “DERRIDA, DECONSTRUCTION, 4:45 PM FROM HERMENEUTICAL ESCHATOLOGY TO DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRACY” PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE FOURFOLD” Chair: Brigitte Sassen (McMaster) Chair: Karen Robertson (Guelph) JHB 100 JHB 401 –2– Panel Spirit Loves to Hide: Hegel and the Conditions of Action DAVID CIAVATTA (RYERSON UNIVERSITY) “HEGEL ON THE ORGANIC CONDITIONS OF AGENCY” SHANNON HOFF 4:45 PM– (INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN STUDIES) 6:15 PM “HEGEL ON LAW AND AGENCY” JOHN RUSSON (UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH) “HAUNTED BY HISTORY: SPIRIT IN MERLEAU-PONTY AND HEGEL” Chair: Charlie Cooper Simpson (Toronto) JHB 100 Saturday, October 12 8:30 AM– Coffee and Registration 9:00 AM Outside JHB 100 ALEXANDER SHOUMAROV MIKE BENNETT (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) (MCMASTER UNIVERSITY) “FIRST PERSON AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM 9:00 AM– “WHAT DO DELEUZE AND GUATTARI IN HEIDEGGER’S BEING AND TIME” MEAN BY ‘INFINITE SPEED’?” 9:45 AM Chair: Matt Klaassen Chair: Niomi Anna Cherney (Ryerson/York) (Institute for Christian Studies) JHB 418 JHB 100 LAURA MCMAHON SANJA DEJANOVIC (VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY) (YORK UNIVERSITY) “THE PHANTOM ORGANIC: MERLEAU-PONTY 9:45 AM– “THE ETERNAL RETURN IN DELEUZE’S AND THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF NATURE” PHILOSOPHY: DISPLACING THE VERB ‘TO BE’” 10:30 AM Chair: Joshua Harris Chair: Sam Caldwell (Toronto) (Institute for Christian Studies) JHB 418 JHB 100 10:30 AM– Coffee break 10:45 AM Outside JHB 100 –3– OISÍN KEOHANE DAVID MORRIS (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY) UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG) “MERLEAU-PONTY, MOVEMENT AND 10:45 AM– “THE IMPOSSIBLE FORCE OF ‘MIGHTLESSNESS’: DEVELOPMENT: ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 11:30 AM TRANSLATING DERRIDA’S IMPOUVOIR AND BEING AND DETERMINATE BEING” HEIDEGGER’S MACHTLOSE” Chair: Kym Maclaren (Ryerson) Chair: Andrew Tebbutt (Toronto) JHB 100 JHB 418 Plenary Session KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK 11:30 AM– (UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO) 12:30 PM “EVENT, SINGULARITY, FINITUDE AFTER HEIDEGGER” Chair: Maxime Doyon (Montréal) JHB 100 12:30 PM– Lunch (on your own) 2:00 PM CAROLYN SHAPIRO GEORGE TOMLINSON (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) (KINGSTON UNIVERSITY) “‘THE LIGHT OF THE PUBLIC OBSCURES “TEMPORALISING A MATERIALIST 2:00 PM– EVERYTHING’: HEIDEGGER ON CONCEPT OF HISTORY” 2:45 PM AUTHENTIC BEING-WITH” Chair: Benjamin Shank Chair: Bryan Richard (ICS/Guelph) (Institute for Christian Studies) JHB 418 JHB 100 Plenary Session REBECCA COMAY 2:45 PM– (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) 3:45 PM “PARADOXES OF LAMENT IN BENJAMIN” Chair: Lorraine Markotic (Calgary) JHB 100 3:45 PM– Coffee break 4:00 PM Outside JHB 100 CHRISTIAN LOTZ OLIVIER MATHIEU (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) (MCGILL UNIVERSITY) “AUTONOMY OF THE POLITICAL? MARX 4:00 PM– “CAN POETIC SAYING ACCOUNT FOR MORE THROUGH POULANTZAS, BADIOU, AND NEGRI” (OR LESS) THAN GREAT ARTWORKS?” 4:45 PM Chair: Ron Kuipers Chair: Brian Rogers (Guelph) (Institute for Christian Studies) JHB 418 JHB 100 –4– Plenary Session LAMBERT ZUIDERVAART 4:45 PM– (INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN STUDIES/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) 5:45 PM “HUSSERL’S CONCEPTION OF TRUTH” Chair: Sean McGrath (Memorial) JHB 100 Dinner Sign up at the registration desk by Friday end of day for a common meal at 7:30 PM– Rol San 323 Spadina Avenue (Chinese cuisine. Each person pays his/her own way. Space is limited.) Eighth annual Symposium Book Prize: the CSCP executive committee would like to congratulate this year’s recipient of Symposium’s annual book prize: Sean D. Kirkland, for The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato’s Early Dialogues, SUNY Press, 2012. The CSCP executive committee would also like to congratulate the winner of this year’s graduate student essay prize: George Tomlinson (Kingston) for his paper entitled “Temporalising a Materialist Concept of History.” Félicitations aux deux gagnants ! The CSCP would like to thank the following people and groups for their support in making this conference possible: Nous tenons à remercier les personnes et groupes suivants pour leur appui : Our hosts: the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics, Institute for Christian Studies; and the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. Our sponsors: the Department of Philosophy, Ryerson University; the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto; Victoria College and the Program in Literary Studies, University of Toronto; and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. Our organizing committee: Allyson Carr (Associate Director, Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics, Institute for Christian Studies); Rebecca Comay (Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto); Shannon Hoff (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Institute for Christian Studies); and Lambert Zuidervaart (Chair of the Organizing Committee, Professor of Philosophy, Institute for Christian Studies/University of Toronto). –5– Abstracts / Résumés Mike Bennett (McMaster University), “What Do Deleuze and Guattari Mean by ‘Infinite Speed’?” The notion of “infinite speed” plays a key role in What is Philosophy?, as the feature of chaos that philosophy emulates in its creation of concepts. This paper shows how the operative conception of infinite speed is derived from Deleuze’s readings of Epicurean atomism in Difference and Repetition, where he argues that the Epicurean swerve (clinamen) occurs at a speed faster than the minimum thinkable time, and in ‘Lucretius and the Simulacrum,’ which credits Epicurus with a novel conception of infinity. This paper explains the derivation, paying close attention to Epicurus’ and Lucretius’ texts, as well as the associated secondary literature, an approach which enables me to supplement and correct some of Deleuze’s specific uses of Epicurus, while ultimately defending Deleuze’s neo-Epicurean image of thought. Michael Butler (University of Memphis), “‘Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same’: Foucault’s discontinuous subject in The Archaeology of Knowledge” This paper attempts to fill a gap in Foucault scholarship around the question of subjectivity in The Archaeology of Knowledge. It will begin by laying out a common criticism of Foucault’s account (or rather alleged lack of account) of subjectivity. On this Anti-Subjective Reading, Foucault’s rejection of the continuous subject as the engine of historical progress leaves his account of subjectivity overly deterministic, lacking a means of resistance to oppression, and morally suspect. In contrast to this, I will argue that by bringing to light a change that has arisen in the practice of history and questioning the unities taken for granted in the history of ideas, Foucault reveals that human beings need not be bound to a self-conception that is self- continuous. In The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault shows us that instead of occupying a single, continuous subjectivity that lends meaning to all facets of an individual life, human beings are capable of occupying various subject-positions that allow for greater intellectual flexibility and a greater ability to address systems of oppression from various angles. David Ciavatta (Ryerson University), “Hegel on the Organic Conditions of Agency” In this paper, certain features of the peculiar ontology of action are developed along Hegelian lines. The particular focus is on the question of whether and how actions can be located in space and time. It is argued that light can be shed on this question by exploring Hegel’s account of how the nature of living organisms challenges some of our more familiar conceptions of spatio- temporal being. For instance, for Hegel the ontology of organic life involves a suspension of the basic distinction between internal and external, as well as of the notion that a being can be fully present at any given point in time, and it is shown that these dimensions of the ontology of life can be fruitfully applied to the account of human action as well.