The Phenomenology Reading Group at the University of Manchester

 

Upcoming Wednesday zoom meetings 5pm to 6.30:

20 May
3 June -  Chapter 6 = "Masked Imagination"
17 June- to discuss Chapters 7 and 8: Nous Autres and Visitation: Of Christian Painting
1st July


Further info on how to get hold of the text and the zoom invitations below.
Some links to background on Chapters 7 and 8:

The (long) poem Bread and Wine that Nancy is quoting two lines from in Chapter 8 may be found here in a bilingual version (see section 8): 
https://sites.google.com/site/germanliterature/19th-century/hoelderlin/brot-und-wein-bread-and-wine

one (of many!) reports on and digital photos of the painting by Pontormo: https://www.arttrav.com/florence/pontormo-visitation/ 

including an enlargement of the two figures at the side.
(a clearer image is at : https://www.apollo-magazine.com/pontormo-visitation-getty-center/
- the colours appears to unrealistic in most of the digital reproductions)


Here is a work by Bill Viola called Visitation, which I think may post-date Nancy's book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td45JUUuSas


here Viola's "The Greeting" to which Nancy refers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg0IyGUVXaQ


and here a comparison of that video with the Pontormo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HvypNnEq1g

Upcoming Wednesday zoom meetings 5pm to 6.30:

20 May
3 June - will discuss Chapter 6 = "Masked Imagination"
17 June
1st July

Our 20 May meeting discussed "Distinct Oscillation" = Chapter 5 of Nancy, The Ground of the Image.

Further info on how to get hold of the text and the zoom invitations below. 

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