2014 Philadelphia
Workshop Topic:
Continental Philosophy of Religion and the New Metaphysics
Date: Saturday August 9th,
2014
Time: 9:00am-5pm
Building/Room: Faculty
Center Lounge, Faculty
Center
Previous call-for-papers: http://afterxnature.blogspot.com/2014/04/call-for-papers-philadelphia-summer.html
Contacts:
Leon Niemoczynski (lniemocz@mail.immaculata.edu)
Stephanie Theodorou (STheodorou@Immaculata.edu)
9:00-9:20
Opening Remarks: The Current
State
Leon Niemoczynski, Immaculata University
“Continental Metaphysics: Realism,
Materialism, and Religion?”
9:20-10:20 Session 1: Metaphysics of the Infinite:
Heidegger, Levinas, Badiou
Ashley Gay, Emory University
“God’s Absence is Not
Nothing: Thinking the Holy Otherwise”
Mike Ardoline, Lebanon Valley College
”The Demands of Things:
Reconciling Badiou and Levinas on Infinity”
10:20-10:30 Mid-Morning Break
10:30-11:30 Session 2: Latour's Ontology: Realism,
Materialism, and Theology
Andrew Vantland, Institute
for Christian Studies:
“Real-ing Them In:
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Continental (Anti) Realism
Thomas Millary, Eastern Mennonite University
“Networks, Assemblages,
and Force Fields: Latour’s Ontology and the New Materialism”
11:30-11:40 Late-Morning Break
*11:40-12:30
John Caputo, Syracuse University
Seminar on Quentin
Meillassoux & Ray Brassier
12:30-1:00 Lunch (Faculty Center
*1:00-1:50
John Caputo, Syarcuse University
Seminar on Bruno
Latour and Catherine Malabou
1:50-2:00 Early-Afternoon Break
2:00-3:00 Session 2: The Metaphysics of Immanence:
Materialism, Vitalism, and Plasticity
Justin Pearl, Duquesne University
“Vital Immanence: Michael
Henry and Gilles Deleuze in Conversation”
Stephanie Theodorou, Immaculata University
“Towards a Hermeneutic
Theory of Mind: Metaphor and Plasticity in Ricoeur and Malabou”
3:00-3:10 Late-Afternoon Break
3:10-4:10
Session 3: The Metaphysics of Evil: Suffering and Salvation
Z. Belinsky, American University
“Soteriology and Suffering:
The Phenomenology, Discourse, and Politics of Salvation
Marc Westmoreland, Villanova University
"the Constellation of Evil, Politics, and Religion(s)”
4:10-5:00 Round Table Discussion/Conclusion
Suggested Reading
The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion, ed. Crockett, Putt, Robbins (Indiana
The Insistence of God, John Caputo (Indiana
The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, John Caputo (Indiana
Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New
Materialism, Crockett &
Robbins (Radical Theologies), (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)
See Also:
After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux, trans. Brassier (Continumm, 2008)
Nihil Unbound, Ray Brassier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour (Harvard UP, 1993)
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to
Actor-Network-Theory, Bruno
Latour, (Oxford
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, Bruno Latour (Duke UP, 2010)
Rejoicing: Or the Torments of Religious Speech, Bruno Latour (Polity, 2013)
An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence, Bruno Latour (Harvard, 2013)
The Future of Hegel, Catherine Malabou, trans. During (Routledge, 2004)
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic,
Destruction, Deconstruction,
Catherine Malabou, trans. Shread (Columbia
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy,
Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience,
Malabou & Johnston (Columbia
