THINKING WITH/AGAINST LIFE

APRIL 19-20, 2002

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

11:00 AM

Introduction: Valentine Moulard and Eric Nelson (University of Memphis)

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

I. Beginning with Bergson

Chair: Leslie MacAvoy (East Tennessee State University)

Valentine Moulard (University of Memphis),

The Time of the Unconscious: Bergson's Duration vs Freud's Associationism

Robin H. Durie (Staffordshire University), Life and Creativity

2:30 PM - 4:15 PM

II. Nietzsche and Freud

Chair: Cara Johnson (University of Memphis)

Kristen Brown (Millsaps College), Nietzsche and Heraclitus: Stories of (the) Relational

Bettina Bergo (Loyola University - Baltimore), Conscious and Unconscious ‘Life’ in Freud

4:30 PM - 6:15 PM

III. Heidegger I

Chair: Brad Stone (University of Memphis)

François Raffoul (Louisiana State University), The Tear of Life and the Need for Philosophy

Rex Gilliland (Southern College - Birmingham),

Heidegger on the Concept of Life: Self-Transference, Poverty, and Alterity

6:30 PM

IV. Plenary Speaker I

Chair: Len Lawlor (University of Memphis)

Dennis Schmidt (Villanova University), On the Unbidden in Heidegger

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

V. Heidegger II

Chair: Athena Colman (University of Memphis)

E. S. Nelson (University of Memphis), Dilthey and Heidegger on Hermeneutics and Factical Life

Pierre LaMarche (Utah Valley State College),

Life Drips Away, the Tether Unwinds, and We Float: Boredom in Die Grundbegriffe

der Metaphysik and Anxiety and Machenschaft in the Beitrage

Virginia Lyle Jennings (Loyola University - New Orleans),

The Other Reverberation of Da-sein: Nature, Life, and Earth in Heidegger's Beitraege zur Philosophie

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

V. Irigaray on Heidegger, the Gift, and Nature

Chair: Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis)

Stacy Keltner (University of Memphis),

Forgotten Traces of the Gift: Irigaray's Reading of Heidegger

Ann Murphy ( University of Memphis), Sexual Politics and Irigaray's Philosophy of Nature

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

VI. Life in Contemporary French Thought

Chair: Karin Fry (University of Memphis)

Bob Vallier (George Washington University),

elemental difference: of life, flesh, and other important matters in merleau-ponty and the timaeus

Kent Still (Emory University),

From the Living Discourse to the Death Rattle: Minimal Life Signs in Recent French Thought

John Protevi (Louisiana State University), The Organism as Judgment of God

6:45 PM

VII. Plenary Speaker II

Chair: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis)

Simon Critchley (Essex University), Calm - on Terrence Malick's ‘The Thin Red Line’