Sarah Hammerschlag on Susan Taubes und Echoes of Heidegger
Title: Resisting Redemption: Susan Taubes and the Imagination of No Future Abstract: The lecture traces Susan Taubes’s path from her BA thesis on Heidegger to her writing of fiction and considers this transition in light of her relationship to the political theology of Jacob Taubes. Bio: Sarah Hammerschlag is John Nuveen Professor of Religion […]
Zhivei “Gavin” Min on Heidegger and Pauline Eschatology
Title: Early Heidegger’s Eschatology without God: From Primitive Christian Temporality to Being-towards-Death Abstract: While Heidegger scholarship widely views Being and Time as an appropriation of Aristotle’s practical philosophy—most radically in Franco Volpi’s thesis that this work is an ontological “translation” of the Nicomachean Ethics—Heidegger’s engagement is rather an “ontological inversion,” shifting an actuality-centered metaphysics toward […]
Dan Dahlstrom on Sein und Zeit
Title: The Project of Being and Time and the Quandary of its Religious Sources Abstract: This paper explains the project of Being and Time, its rationale for developing a fundamental ontology and for pursuing that ontology through existential analysis. It also reviews several themes central to that analysis: the worldliness of existence and its instrumentality, […]
Colin Bossen on Political Theology of American Populism
Title: “We the People:” How Populists Use Religion to Make a People Abstract: Populist movements in the United States rest on an unresolved question implicit within the country’s Constitution: Who are “We the People”? In their efforts to answer this question populist leaders have long used religious narratives, symbols, and practices. This lecture will explore […]
Benjamin Crowe on Dilthey and the Crisis of Historicism
Title: Dilthey, Religion, and the Rise of Historical Consciousness Abstract: Dr. Crowe will discuss Dilthey’s ideas about religion (esp. early Christianity) and the rise of historical consciousness, and how those ideas were important for Heidegger who developed them in his own way. Bio: Ben Crowe’s academic interests lie at the intersection of ethics, religion, […]
Ben Austin on Husserl and Phenomenology
Title: Origins, Echoes, and Surface Effects: Phenomenology as a Crisis of Christian Inheritance Abstract: This lecture introduces the phenomenological tradition inaugurated by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) with a view to its critical reconceptualization by his student, Martin Heidegger. Its title derives in part from two remarks made by the French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze. In Difference and […]