October 27 and 28, 2006 International Conference at the Department of Philosophy, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Par Amalia le mardi 27 janvier 2009, 19:43 - Lien permanent
“A Century with Levinas – Levinas’ Metaphysics : Right of the Other”
Organizing Committee:
- Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Ph.D.
- Prof. Plamen Makariev, Ph. D.
- Prof. Ivan Kolev
The goal of this Conference is to discuss the opportunities open by Levinas’ Metaphysics. After centuries of modern reflective philosophy concentrated on the Self regarded as a subject and its relation to the world, objects, society, etc., Levinas’ call to rethink this philosophy of subject’ power and to take into consideration right of the Other, forms the great challenge of Postmodernity. According to Levinas, first philosophy is ethics rather than ontology, epistemology, logic, etc. Program
October 27
9:30
Official Opening
10:00 – 10:30
Prof. Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Université de Picardie, France, Emmanuel Levinas and Ernst Cassirer: a hidden affinity
10:30 – 11:00
Prof. Ivanka Rainova, University of Vienna and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria, Figures of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur
11:00 – 11:30
Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University, Bulgaria, Intersubjectivity and Intertemporality
11:30 – 12:30
Discussion
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30
Prof. Andrey Rozhdestvensky, University of Mining Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria, Levinas and the Stranger Lady
14:30 – 15:00
Prof. Graham Harman, American University of Egypt., Bread, Tobacco, and Silk: Levinas on Individual Substance
15:00 – 15:30
Prof. Sylvia Mineva, Sofia University, Bulgaria, Identity, Otherness and Their Postmodern Ethical Discourse
15:30 – 16:30
Discussion
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30
Prof. Robert Manning, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Quincy University, Quincy, IL, USA. Getting Right to the Point of Levinas’s Politics.
17:30 – 18:00
Prof. Nadia Nedjalkova, French Language School and Cultural Studies Department, Sofia University, Jewish Apocalyptic and the Principle of the Otherness according to Levinas.
18:00 – 18:30
Prof. Raicho Pozharliev, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University. Phenomenology of the Nourishment.
18:30 – 18:45
Discussion
Round Table
19:00 – 19:15
Suzanne Metselaar, M. A., Dept. of Philosophy, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Neglected Side of Logos. Levinas’ Revaluation of Descartes
19:15 – 19:30
Ákos Krassóy, Researcher, Catholic University, Leuven ; Doctoral Student at ELTE Budapest. Levinas, Representation, and Art
19:30 – 19:45
Ivelina Ivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria and Todor Christov, Sofia University, Bulgaria. Naked Life of the Otherness
19:45
Discussion
October 28
10:00 – 10:30
Prof. Denise Egéa-Kuehne, College of Education, Louisiana State University, USA. Levinas's "Idea of a Possibility”
10:30 – 11:00
Prof. Ivan Kolev, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University, Bulgaria. About Possibility of Existential Metaphysics
11:00 – 11:30
Prof. Lyubomir Christov, University of Plovdiv and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The Face as a Reference Topos
11:30 – 12:30
Discussion
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30
Dr. Vasiliki Tsakiri, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Patras, Greece. The Persecuted Other: Levinas Perception of Kierkegaard
14:30 – 15:00
Prof. Krasimir Delchev, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Some Questions to Levinas
15:00 – 15:30
Prof. Angelos Mouzakitis, University of Crete and Hellenic Open University. Beyond the Realm of Death: From Dasein to Infinity
15:30 – 16:30
Discussion
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
Round Table
17:00 – 17:15
Prof. Ivailo Lazarov, Varna Open University, Bulgaria. Is the Hyperbola of Exteriority Acceptable from the Point of View of Phenomenology?
17:15 – 17:30
Dr. Sarah Allen, Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University, Leuven. Being or Otherwise than Being? Heidegger, Levinas, and the God of Metaphysics
17:30 – 17:45
Dr. Philip Lindholm, University of Oxford, UK. At Wits End: Levinas on Incarnation and Embodiment
17:45 – 18:00
Dr. Ernst Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. The Quest for Justice versus the Rights of the Other?
18:00 – 19:00
Discussion
19:15 – 19:45
Closing lecture: Prof. Luc Anckaert, Chair of Jewish Philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain. The Problem of the “Nichts”(Rozenzweig) and of the “Il y a”(Levinas) as Condition of Ethical Freedom.
20:00
Closing dinner for the participants: Celebration of Levinas’ Centennial