LEVINAS’ METAPHYSICS : RIGHT OF THE OTHER
Conference at the Department of Philosophy
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
October 27-28, 2006
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Ph.D.
Prof. Plamen Makariev, Ph. D.
Prof. Ivan Kolev
Departmant of Philosophy
Sofia University
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Sofia 1504
Bulgaria
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Prgramme of the Conference
27th of October
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. Lévinas, Representation, and Art
19: 30 – 19: 45 - Ivelina Ivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria, Todor Christov, Sofia University, Bulgaria. Naked Life of the Otherness
19: 45 Discussion
28th of October
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
Към новина: 26/07/2006 Levinas' Metaphysics: Right of the Other