Draft Programme: Towards a Philosophy of Life

Friday 26th

9.00

Registration

10.00

Keynote: Pamela Sue Anderson 'Only Life Explains the Thinker': Metaphysics as a Practice for Critical Thinkers Today

11.00

Break

11.45-1.15 Parallel sessions of 3

1. Philosophies of Life: I

Joe Carlisle The Theological Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Theological Reading of Jack Kerouac’s Philosophy of Life using Michel Foucault and Paul Ricoeur.

Monia Brizzi Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life.

Matthew Kirkpatrick Kierkegaard aesthetics

2. Nietzsche and Deleuze

Jim Urpeth Divine Life: The Renaturalisation of Religion
Simon Scott TBC
Ivan Broisson Nietzsche on Genealogy and “the Essence of Life”

3. Ethics and Life

James Carter Paul Ricoeur and the philosophy of life: Ontology, Ethics and Human Capability

Daniel Whistler Friendship with God: ‘Ethical Neo-Spinozism’ in Late Eighteenth Century Philosophy of Religion

Anthony Abiragi A Mortal Intensity: On The Concept of (Ethical) Life in Blanchot’s L’écriture du désastre

1.15

Lunch

2.15 – 4.30 (mid session break 15 minute break at 3.15)    Parallel sessions of 4

1. Biopolitics

Maurizio Meloni Antinaturalism as Biopolitical Immunization: Addressing Life Within the Continental Tradition

Daniela Steila Bios and Zoé: the Idea of Quality of Life from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Biopolitics.

Volha Pitoukh Power over Life: the Concept of Biopolitics in Foucault, Agamben, and Esposito

Paul Rekret Sovereignty and Life in Derrida and Foucault

2. Immanence and Transcendence

Joshua Delpech-Ramey Undeath or Resurrection? Zizek and Milbank’s The Monstrosity of Christ and the Problem of Preternatural

Alastair Morgan How Can the Possibility of Life Arise? Further Reflections on Adorno and the Concept of Life

John Caruana And He Descended into Hell: Between Immanence and Transcendence

Brain Sudlow Surviving or living? Questioning Agamben, revisiting Girard

3. Deconstruction and faith

Katharine Moody Making Good on the “Good” of Life: Emerging Logics and Poetics of the Kingdom

Shahid Bari Thinking of Living: Nancy, Derrida and the Case of Simone Weil

Aaron Landau Faith Seeking Hospitality: Augustine, Levinas, Derrida, King Lear & the Im-possibility of Substitution

Thomas Olsen The Wink-ness of God: A-theology of the Event

4. Michel Henry’s Phenomenology of Life

Edna McCarffrey Michel Henry’s Phenomenology of Christianity: From The ‘Truth of the World’ to the ‘Truth of Life’

Karl Hefty Time and Appearance: Fundamental Ontology after Michel Henry

Isobel Bowditch Life and the other world: Edith Stein and Michel Henry

Michael Burns Subjectivity Between Life and Concept: Immanent Life in Henry and Badiou

4.30

Break

5.00

Keynote: Jean-Yves Lacoste: From Existence to Life

6.30

Reception

7.30

Dinner

Saturday 27th

9.15

Keynote: John Milbank

The Habit of Living: Immanence or Transcendence

10.45

Break

11.15 -12.45 Parallel Sessions of 3

1. Hegel and the Concept of Life

Clare Greer The Conceptualisation of Law in John Milbank’s Reading of Hegel

Ioannis Trisokkas Natural Life, Cultural Life, Logical Life: Hegel’s Analysis of the Concept of Life in the Science of Logic

2. The Power of the Other

David Weir Modernity, Business Life and a Missing Link

Mary Gerrety Otherness and the Unborn Person

Ben Morgan Prior Commitments: situating individual identity

3. Theologies of life

Daniel McClain Material, Creation, and Incarnational Uplift in Pseudo-Dionysius’ Divine Names

Christoph Moonen Life, Incarnation and Individuation, the Gnostic Subject on the Couch

Shannon Berry The Poetry of Healing: Language, Christ and Creation in the Ecological Theology of Joseph Sittler

12.45

Lunch

2.00 – 4.15 (mid session break 15 minute break at 3.00)    Parallel sessions of 4

1. Economics of life

Chad Lakies Challenging the Cultural Imaginary: Josef Pieper on How Life might Live

Enis Emre From the Economics of Life to the Nomos of Oikos

Todd Mei Access to Land, Access to Life: A Hermeneutical Approach to Political Economy

Mauro Dilullo Multitude and Economism within the Empire

2. The Case of God in Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life

Nancy Billias An Overview of the Phenomenology of Life

Thomas Ryba Logos and Conjecture: Tymieniecka’s Cconjectural Method and the Logos of Life

Kathleen Haney Tymieniecka’s Philosophy of Religion

Carmen Cozma Ann-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Ethics: An Inspiration for the Contemporary World

Daniela Verducci Time Within Eternity: A Metaphysical Perspective Newly Opened by Ann-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Ontopoietical Logos of Life

3. Vitalism and Materialism

Lauwaert Lode The Reading of Sade in French philosophy: Towards a ‘Sadean’ and Energetical Model of Life

Tom Jacobs Why Wouldn’t There Be Life in the State? Reading Hegel in the Light of Contemporary French ‘Vitalism’

Martin Rosenberg Gilles Deleuze, Ilya Prigogine, Henri Bergson and the Mystical as well as Physical Origins of Deleuze’s Vitalism

Frank Ruda Badiou’s Renaissance: Living with or Without an Idea

4. Animality and the Question of Life

Steven Shakespeare TBC

Michael Strawser Slaughtering Spinoza’s Speciesism with the Help of Derrida

Donald Turner Levinas, Bataille, and the Theology of Animal Life

Jan Voelker Aesthetics as orientation

4.15

Break

5.00

Keynote: JOHN D. CAPUTO
‘Bodies Without Flesh’: The Soft Gnosticism of Incarnational Theology    

6.30

Break

7.30

Dinner

Sunday 28th

9.30 - 11.00 Parallel Sessions of 4

1. Embodied Life

Alison Martin Violence, Natality and the Poignancy of Social Life

Aron Dunlap Becoming Freudian Again: Eros and Thanatos After Lacan

Franke Macke The Crime of Communion and the Sin of Embodiment: Reflections on the Existential Bargain of Adolescent Experience

2. Phenomenologies of Life

Kascha Snavely Natality and Nature: Toward a Phenomenology of Life through Merleau-Ponty and Schelling

Orion Edgar Merleau-Ponty embodiment

Kenneth J. Wardley ‘A Weariness of the Flesh’: Towards a Theology of Boredom and Fatigue

3. Spiritualities

Philip Goodchild Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise

Michael Burdett Martin Buber and the Sacrament of Ordinary Life

M. Lorenz Festin The Spirituality of Human Life

4. Title tbc

Will Large/ Lars Iyer TBC

Tom Scott What Barbara and Tom Knew They Didn’t Know: The Good Life and Life After That

Colby Dickinson Cannon as an Act of Creation: Giorgio Agamben and the Extended Logic of the Messianic

11.30

Keynote: Don Cupitt
Two Philosophies of Life

1.00

Closing Words

1.10

Lunch