Reading Jean-Luc Nancy

Our next meeting by zoom is on Wednesday 6 May, at 5.30 (note slightly later time).

We will be discussing Chapter 4 of Nancy's Ground of the Image (details below).

If you wish to receive an invite, please contact Alex Samely. 

Update Semester 2 (20 April update)

Reading and Changed Dates of the Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group 2019-2020

Meetings: Wednesdays 5-6.30 pm BY ZOOM (please contact Alex to receive an invite, alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk)

 

Reading for meeting Wednesday 22 April  2020

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image (translated by Jeff Fort) New York: Fordham University Press, 2005, Chapter 3 (Forbidden Representation, pp. 27–50)

Update Semester 2 (5 April update)

Reading and (Changed) Dates of the Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group 2019-2020

Meetings: Wednesdays 5-6.30 pm BY ZOOM (please contact Alex to receive an invite)

New Date: 22 April (dates thereafter to be decided)

 
 

Reading for meeting Wednesday 22 April  2020

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image (translated by Jeff Fort) New York: Fordham University Press, 2005, Chapter 3 (Forbidden Representation, pp. 27–50)

Update October 2019

Our next two texts this Semester are:

30 October 2019

(1) The Age of the World Picture,

in e.g. Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (NY: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 115–154; there are also other translations into English

Die Zeit des Weltbildes, in Heidegger, Holzwege, 7th edn. (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1994; original 1950), pp. 75–95 (Zusätze, pp. 96–113).

13 November 2019 (or later)

(2) The Question Concerning Technology,

in Lovitt (above), pp. 3–35, also in Krell's translation in Heidegger, Basic Writings, expanded edn (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 307–342.

Die Frage nach der Technik, in Heidegger, Vorträge und Aufsätze, 8th edn (Stuttgart: Neske, 1997; original 1954), pp. 9–40; also in a separate publication together with "die Kehre", Neske 1962. 

Academic Year 2019–2020

Academic Year 2019–2020
Phenomenological Engagements with Art

Nancy

We plan to read:

1. Heidegger, 'The Origin of the Work of Art', in Holzwege and elshere, translated in Albert Hofstadter, trans., Poetry, Language, Thought (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), and elsewhere

2. Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture”, in The Question concerning Technology and Other Essays, (translated and with an Introduction by William Lovitt) London: Harper and Row, 1977,pp. 115–145

3. Heidegger, 'The Question Concerning Technology' (1954), e.g. in Lovitt

4. ‘The Thing’, in Hofstadter pp. 161–184     (or, 'The Turn', to be decided)        

5.  Levinas, 'Reality and its Shadow' (1948), in Seán Hand, ed., The Levinas Reader, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989, pp. 129-143 including Hand's introduction; cp. Aaron Rosen's article, "Emmanuel Levinas and Hospitality of Images", in Literature and Theology, Vol. 25. No. 4, December 2011, pp. 364-378) 

6. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image (translated by Jeff Fort) New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.

 Heidegger

In Semester 1 we plan to meet on Wednesdays at 5 pm on:


18 Sept
2 Oct
16 Oct
30 Oct
13 Nov
27 Nov
11 Dec
Venue: Seminar Room 1, Graduate School Manchester University, Ellen Wilkinson Building Section C; campus map building 77; https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/ 

Blanchot and Levinas

Gadamer, Truth and Method, Semester 2

Semester 2 Meeting schedule (to be confirmed):

30 January 2019

13 Feb

27 Feb

13 March

27 March (followed by the Manchester Easter lecture break beginning the week after)

1 May

15 May (For venue, details and times, see below)

New Text 2018–19

Reading Gadamer, Truth and Method   

Semester 1 information:  Wednesdays 5–6.30, fortnightly (except for the first two meetings) First meeting: 26 Sept  2018  Thereafter: 3 October (only one week), 17 October, 31 Oct, 14 Nov, 28 Nov, 12 December. Venue: Seminar room 1 on the ground floor of the SALC Graduate School (Ellen Wilkinson Building part C, campus map 77).  Text for the first two meetings:  English trans.: Gadamer's Introduction (pp. xx to xxiv in the English) and first sub-section (pp. 1–37).

Open to University staff, current University graduate or research students, General public Everybody welcome, but please let Alex Samely know you are coming: alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk

Gadamer’s Truth and Method (1960) is one of the key critiques of historical, literary and art-related scholarship of the 20^th century. We will read the book in instalments over the academic year, meeting mostly fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5pm. We will discuss its philosophical, aesthetic, phenomenological and historical implications, and compare it to some extent with the positions of other thinkers, including Heidegger and Benjamin. The Semester 1 dates are: 26 Sept, 3 October, 17 October, 31 Oct, 14 Nov, 28 Nov, 12 December. We meet in Seminar room 1 on the ground floor of the SALC Graduate School (Ellen Wilkinson Building part C). Segment for the first two meetings: Introduction and first sub-section (pp. 1–37) in the English translation (second edn., by Weinsheimer and Marshall; London: Continuum, 2004). No knowledge of German necessary, although some group members will use the German original.