180156 SE Thinking Community: Address, Love and Secrecy (2016S)
A course on social responsiveness
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- Anmeldung von Mo 15.02.2016 09:00 bis Fr 26.02.2016 09:00
- Anmeldung von Sa 27.02.2016 09:00 bis Do 03.03.2016 09:00
- Abmeldung bis Do 31.03.2016 23:59
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max. 35 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Deutsch, Englisch
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Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Seminar Plan and Readings (Please see Moodle for detailed course description and syllabus)
Seminar 1: March 10thGeneral introduction to the topic of thinking community is given in the form of a lecture providing an overview of our three guiding concepts: Address, Secrecy, and Love. We are introduced to Jean-Luc Nancy's idea of the inoperative community which will serve as a general theoretical orientation in our thinking of community throughout the course.
Literature: Nancy, Jean-Luc "The inoperative community" in The inoperative community. Translated by Peter Connor et al. University of Minnesota Press 1992, pp. 1-42Seminar 2: March 17th
A second introductory lecture is given in order to present the idea of social responsiveness. We look at Heidegger's conception of Mitsein and explore the idea of a responsive Mitsein with Bernhard Waldenfels. These two introductory lectures (seminar 1 and 2) grant us a fundament from which a thinking of community can begin.
Literature: Heidegger, Martin: Sein und Zeit, Max Niemeyer Verlag 1993, Kap. 4, §§ 24-7pp. 113-30; B. Waldenfels, Antwortregister, Suhrkamp Verlag 1994: pp.319-36A. Address (Seminar 3-5)
Seminar 3: April 7th
Addressed by the Other
Literature: Levinas, E.: Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence, Duquesne Press 1998, chap. 2, pp 25-59Seminar 4: April 14th
Address, body and language
We question the role of embodiment in social responsiveness by discussing the idea of
Literature: Merleau-Ponty, M.: Phenomenology of Perception, Routledge 1962, pp. 202-32Seminar 5: April 21st
Is there necessarily a moral dimension to being addressed?
Literature: Honneth, Axel "Recognition: Invisibility: The Epistemology of 'Recognition'" in The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplementary volumes, vol. LXXII 2001, pp. 111-126
Honneth, Axel: Verdinglichung, Suhrkamp Verlag 2005, Chapter 4, pp. 62-77B. Love (Seminar 6-9)
Seminar 6: April 28th
Commanded love
Literature: Kierkegaard, Works of Love (the second Christian deliberation of the first series)Seminar 7: May 12th
Deconstructed love
Literature: Kierkegaard, Works of Love (the fifth Christian deliberation of the first series and the fourth, seventh and tenth Christian deliberation of the second series)Seminar 8: may 19th
Shattered love
Literature: Nancy, J.N. "Shattered love" in 'The inoperative community'. Translated by Peter Connor et al. University of Minnesota Press 1992, pp. 82-109C. Secrecy (Seminar 9-12)
Seminar 9: May 26th
Secrecy and social indirectness
Literature: Plessner, Helmuth:"Der Kampf ums wahre Gesicht. Das Risiko der Lächerlichkeit" and "Die Logik der Diplomatie" in 'Grenzen der Gemeinschaft. Eine Kritik des sozialen Radikalismus' (1924) in Gesammelte Schriften, Band 5, Suhrkamp Verlag 2003, pp. 58-78; 95-112Seminar 10: June 2nd
Secrecy, Irony and pretence
Literature: Lear, Jonathan:"To Become Human does Not Come That Easily" in 'A Case For Irony. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values' Harvard University Press 2011, pp.3-41Seminar 11: June 9th
Secrecy and sacrifice
Literature: Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (problema I, II and III); Derrida, Jacques: "Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know)" in The Gift of Death. Translated by David Wills. The University of Chicago Press 1995, pp. 54-81Seminar 12: June 16th
Secrecy and communication
Literature: Derrida, Jacques:"Passions: 'An Oblique Offering'" in 'On the Name'. Translated by David Wood et al. Stanford University Press 1995, pp. 3-34Seminar 13: June 23rd
Thinking community
We leave this lecture open to revisit questions from previous lectures and to propose suggestions for further investigation.
- Donnerstag 10.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 17.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 07.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 14.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 21.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 28.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 12.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 19.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 02.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 09.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 16.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 23.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Donnerstag 30.06. 13:15 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
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Requirements
- The student should attend 9 or more out of 13 Seminars
- The students are expected to read the texts carefully before class and should be prepared to discuss the texts in class.
- The students are expected to give an oral presentation during the semester of one central argument in one of the obligatory readings of our course.
- Finally, the students are expected to submit two short essays on topics discussed in class while covering at least two of the assigned texts from the syllabus. The essays are expected to be of 2500 words including notes, excluding references.
- Students who successfully pass the course are granted 5 ETCS points
Deadlines and Guidelines
The two essays should be submitted
1) 30th of June, 2016
2) 30th of July, 2016
Papers can be submitted in German or English
Guidelines will be uploaded on Moodle
- The student should attend 9 or more out of 13 Seminars
- The students are expected to read the texts carefully before class and should be prepared to discuss the texts in class.
- The students are expected to give an oral presentation during the semester of one central argument in one of the obligatory readings of our course.
- Finally, the students are expected to submit two short essays on topics discussed in class while covering at least two of the assigned texts from the syllabus. The essays are expected to be of 2500 words including notes, excluding references.
- Students who successfully pass the course are granted 5 ETCS points
Deadlines and Guidelines
The two essays should be submitted
1) 30th of June, 2016
2) 30th of July, 2016
Papers can be submitted in German or English
Guidelines will be uploaded on Moodle
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Literatur
Will be available on Moodle. Please see Moodle for detailed course description and syllabus
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
MA M2, MA M3D, M5
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:36
In this course we explore the phenomenological and anthropological conditions for being together in communities. What gives us the sense of a 'we', what makes a community? Is it the grouping of individuals? Is it our collective tradition, the routines of our everyday lives and the patterns of our social behaviour? Or is it our laws, our political convictions and a basic sense of responsibility? We begin our exploration by doubting that the sense of a 'we' is founded in the sum of individuals. Contrary to existential philosophy, we argue that community can never be adequately understood if we let our thinking begin by the question of subjectivity. We propose a thinking of community that begins elsewhere, namely by three fundamentally responsive aspects of being together: Address, Love and Secrecy. The aim is to develop a positive account of social responsiveness. The central readings in the course will be by Nancy, Heidegger, Waldenfels, Levinas and others.Aims
The aim of this course is to make the student familiar with central debates in phenomenology and existential philosophy concerning constitutive aspects of community, communication, and the social dynamics of interpersonal relations. Theoretically, the students will be able to orient themselves critically in classical as well as recent debates in existential philosophy and phenomenology on community, expressivity, language, recognition, singularity, plurality, irony. Further, the students will practice their basic philosophical skills in presenting arguments as they will be giving oral as well as written presentations focused on the topics central to our readings.Method
Close reading of texts each being introduced by a guiding mini-lecture, joint discussions, group based discussions, oral presentations, written presentations.