Week 1 — Monday 14th July – Friday 18th July
Robert Bernasconi
Infinities: Hegel's “Faith and Knowledge”
Essential Reading
G.W.F. Hegel, Faith and Knowledge SUNY.
(Available direct from the SUNY website)
Week 2 — Monday 21st July – Friday 25th July
Daniel Dahlstrom
Heidegger after Augustine
Essential Reading
Heidegger's Augustine lectures from the summer of 1921, entitled “Augustine and Neo-Platonism” in The Phenomenology of Religious Life ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2004), translated by Matthias Frisch and Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, pp.115-227
Augustine, Confessions , Book X.
Week 3 — Monday 28th July – Friday 1st August
Michael Naas
‘Religion, Technology, and Originary Faith in Derrida'
Essential Reading
Jacques Derrida, ‘Faith and Knowledge', in Religion (Stanford University Press) or Acts of Religion (Routledge) (latter is recommended since it contains other relevant essays)
Recommended Reading
Don DeLillo, Underworld
Further Reading
Jacques Derrida, Glas
— Circonfession
— Philosophy in a Time of Terror (with Giovanna Borradori and Jürgen Habermas)
— Rogues
— Learning to Live Finally
Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
Henri Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion