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A Critical Consciousness conference at the University of Leeds
The organisers regret that this event has been cancelled due to the personal circumstances of several speakers. A similar event on Derrida's 'Le Toucher' is currently being prepared for March 2007, please watch this web-site for details.
14-15 September 2006
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Jean-Luc Nancy
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| Geoffrey Bennington (Emory), Tom Cohen (Albany, NY), Marc Froment-Meurice (Vanderbilt), Peggy Kamuf (USC, LA) | |||
Christine Irizarry
The translation into English by Christine Irizarry of Jacques Derrida’s On-Touching—Jean Luc Nancy is a momentous event in the arts and humanities. Of interest to scholars across a span of disciplines this book takes on the immense task of the deconstruction of the phenomenology of intuitionism and the philosophy of the sense of touch. It reads a history of philosophy including Plato, Aristotle, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, Heidegger, Descartes, Diderot, Kant, and Freud, taking as an anchoring point the work of Derrida’s friend and colleague Jean-Luc Nancy. The book pays particular attention to Nancy’s on-going deconstruction of Christianity and devotes a section to the sense of touch in the Gospels.
This two-day event seeks to begin the task of opening the critical commentary on this book with contributions from four distinguished readers of Derrida. Jean-Luc Nancy will respond to each of these participants before giving his own response to the book in his keynote address. The symposium will conclude with a round-table of all the speakers who will be joined by Christine Irizarry.
The Critical Consciousness series promotes critical thinking as a key skill across the arts, humanities and cognate disciplines.
Martin McQuillan (Leeds)
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