Events
The colloquium will explore the link between phenomenology and critique in contemporary thought. Its aim is to examine the ways in which the various traditions and methods in phenomenology (transcendental, genetic, generative, hermeneutic, deconstructive, existential, critical, etc.) can represent a form of critical transformation of meaning and of society.
What does phenomenology understand by “Critique”? How does phenomenological critique differ from critical phenomenology? Does it get its inspiration and critical impulse in the Kantian tradition? What sources does phenomenological critique draw upon today? Phenomenology, far from being reducible to a neutral description of experience, reveals its critical potential by rendering thematic the implicit structures that configure the lifeworld and the forms of normativity which sustain it.
The colloquium, therefore, invites us to rethink the relation between constitution, normativity and intersubjectivity, as well as to examine how phenomenology, in dialogue with other currents of contemporary thought, can contribute to a critique of the present age. The event gathers scholars from different generations and universities, combining classical and current perspectives on the critical role of phenomenology today.
We will feature a keynote lecture by Anthony J. Steinbock (Stony Brook University), “The Tenor of the Heart and Critical Discernment”, which will be the Jorge E. Dotti Chair of the course “Otherness and Alienness. Contemporary readings of Husserl’s Cartesian Fifth Meditation”. In addition, Lisa Guenther (Queen’s University) will give the closing lecture, “The Enclosure of the Commons and the Criminalization of the Dispossessed: A Critical Phenomenology of Primitive Accumulation”.
PROGRAM
Monday, November 3 (Auditory of Psychology, Vergara 275, Santiago)
3pm. Rocío Garcés (Diego Portales University): “Phenomenology and Critique: How to Orient Oneself Generatively in Thought”.
4pm. Cristián Martínez (Diego Portales University): “Genesis and Generativity in the Phenomenological Problem of Non-Human Monads. A Critical Perspective”.
5pm. Celeste Vecino (Diego Portales University): “Classical and Critical Phenomenologies”.
6pm. Coffee break
6:30pm. Dotti Chair – Anthony J. Steinbock (Stony Brook University): “The Tenor of the Heart and Critical Discernment”.
Tuesday, November 4 (Room B-31, Nicanor Parra Library, Vergara 324, Santiago)
3pm. Ovidiu Stanciu (University of Bucharest): “The Challenges of a Phenomenology of Belonging”.
4pm. Pali Guíñez (Diego Portales University): “The Abolition of Sexual Difference Phenomenologically Revisited. Notes on a Queer Husserl”.
5pm. Panel of PhD Students in Philosophy (Diego Portales University):
– Sinthya Schubert: “Suffering from Pain at Home: In Between Aversion and Hope”.
– Francisca Hill: “Value and Facticity: Philippa Foot and Jean-Paul Sartre”.
– Paulina Castro: “The Genetic Possibility of the An-archic Noema”.
6pm. Coffee break
6:30pm. Closing Lecture – Lisa Guenther (Queen’s University): “The Enclosure of the Commons and the Criminalization of the Dispossessed: A Critical Phenomenology of Primitive Accumulation”.
* This colloquium is supported by the Fondecyt Iniciación Project No. 11230759.
