(Extended) due: 1-31-2013 / Translating Realism-The Nature and Emergence of Contemporary French Thought

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An Interdisciplinary Conference
Keynote Speakers:

  • Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico)
  • Dorothea Olkowski (UCCS/Rotman Institute)
  • Michael Naas (Depaul)

We are pleased to announce that on May 10-11 2013, we will be hosting a conference on the emergence and renewal of French thought in the 21stcentury at the University of Notre Dame.

http://translatingrealismconference.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

We encourage submissions that relate broadly to either of these axes. Some suggestions include:

  • Serres, Latour, and the end of critique
  • the relation and constraints of science and metaphysics in French thought
  • Deleuze’s realism
  • theological speculation in Meillasoux, Marion, and/or others
  • the metaphysics of individuation (e.g. Simondon, Stiegler)
  • new forms of radical and/or egalitarian French political theory (e.g. Badiou, Rancière)
  • the impact of American/pragmatist thought on contemporary French philosophy (e.g. Stengers)
  • the reorientation or translation of the legacies of, e.g., Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, etc.
  • theological and non-theological metaphysics in the French phenomenological tradition
  • the heritage, legacies, and futures of psychoanalysis in the 21st century
  • the flat ontology of Tristan Garcia
  • rethinking temporality beyond phenomenology (e.g. in Ricoeur, Lyotard, Badiou)
  • the impact of international developments in sociology of science on French thought
  • the development of the sociology of critique
  • Laruelle and the transformation of the “end of philosophy”
  • the institutionalization and development of historical epistemology in, e.g., the Max Planck Institute
  • the relation (and conflicts) between realism, natural, and materialism in various French thinkers.
  • plasticity, science, and naturalism

Of course, these are by no means exhaustive and high-quality submissions on other dimensions of contemporary French thought are also welcome.
Papers should be prepared for blind-review, and should be suitable for a presentation of 20-25 minutes. Deadline for submission is January 31 2013 (extended).
Presenters will be provided with lodging and most meals. There may be funds available to subsidize some graduate student travel.
Submissions can be sent to translatingrealismconference

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