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CFP: Carl Schmitt and the Event

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Papers are invited for a thematic issue on Carl Schmitt and the Event to appear in Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts in 2009. Guest-edited by Michael V. Marder (University of Toronto), the journal invites papers that explore the political, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the “event” in [...]

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Symposium – Spinoza: Ethics, Interpretation, Power

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

(Not that this should convince anyone to go, but I am moderating Montag’s session.) SPINOZA: ETHICS, INTERPRETATION, POWER February 1 & 2, 2008 York Lanes (Offices) York University, Toronto. What is the relationship of ethics, interpretation and power in Spinoza? What demands does examination of that relationship place upon the reader? How does that relationship [...]

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Jim Vernon: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Language”

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I haven’t had the opportunity to read this book yet, but it is worth mentioning not only because the topic is intrinsically interesting, but also because I audited Vernon’s seminar on Kant’s First Critique one summer. Jere O’Neill Surber review’s Jim Vernon’s Hegel’s Philosophy of Language (Continuum, 2007) at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Hegel’s views [...]

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Fuyuki Kurasawa: “The Work of Global Justice”

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Of Interest

Thursday, November 1, 2007

“Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.” from the New York Times. The only good news from this article is that I’ll be younger than the average (American) Ph.D. at time of graduation. Figures for Canada are comparable to those given for the US in the article (except Canadians tend to be about [...]

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Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture & the Humanities

Sunday, October 7, 2007

The programme for the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture & the Humanites conference, to be held between October 12-14 at Carleton University, Ottawa, can be found here.

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Forthcoming: “Constitutional Theory” by Carl Schmitt

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Constitutional Theory (Duke UP) Carl Schmitt Edited and translated by Jeffrey Seitzer; With a foreword by Ellen Kennedy and an introduction by Jeffrey Seitzer and Christopher Thornhill

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The Schmitt/Strauss Debate on Hobbes

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Barret and I are looking for someone who wants to talk about Schmitt and Strauss on Hobbes at the meeting of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities, which meets October 12-14 at Carleton University in Ottawa. Standard conference format: three presentations followed by questions/discussion. Leave a comment here or send me an [...]

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CFP: Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

CANADIAN INITIATIVE IN LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES 2ND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities will be hosting its second biennial conference at Carleton University in Ottawa. The conference will take place over the weekend of 12-14 October, 2007. The conference [...]

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“Complications” by Claude Lefort

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Columbia University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy, by noted French political theorist Claude Lefort (Cloth, 237 pp., $35.00) Praise for Complications: “The so-called triumph of capitalism that accompanied the real collapse of communism in 1989 has led Americans to ‘bury communism’—and forget it. But in [...]

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