Program

Collegium 2013 Program

 

Week 1: July 8-12

 

Releasement to the Open-Region: Reading Heidegger’s “Country Path Conversations”

Lecture course by Bret Davis, Loyola University Maryland

 

Readings:

English: Martin Heidegger, Country Path Conversations, trans. Bret Davis. Indiana University Press.

German: Martin Heidegger, Gesaumtausgabe, volume 77: Feldweg-Gespräche (1944/45).

 

Lectures:

• John Sallis, Boston College:  “Heidegger’s Other Dialogue”

• Robert Bernasconi, Pennsylvania State University: “Devastation and the Rejection of the National in the Abendgesprach”

• Silvia Benso, Rochester Institute of Technology: “When Tower Dwellers Take a Walk: A Conversation on Philosophy and Art”

 

Text Seminar Leaders:

• Richard Capobianco, Stonehill College

• Ted George, Texas A&M University

• Francisco Gonzalez, Ottawa University

• Dennis Hirota, Ryukoku University

• Julia Ireland, Whitman College

• Tobias Keiling, Freiburg University

• Sean Kirkland, DePaul University

• Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver

• Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky

• Ingvild Torsen, Marquette University

 

 

Week 2, July 15-19

Idioms of the Ethical in Heidegger: From the Rectoral Address to “Letter on Humanism”

Lecture course by Dennis Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University

 

Readings:

English:

“The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles’ Antigone,” in Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister,” trans. Wiliam McNeill and Julia Davis. Indiana University Press, 1996. pp. 51-122.

“Letter on ‘Humanism,” in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill, trans F. Capuzzi. Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 44-63.

German:

“Die griechische Deutung des Menschen in Sophokles’ Antigone” in
Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 53, Hölderlins Hymne ‘Der Ister’, pp. 63-152.

“Brief über den ‘Humanismus’” in Wegmarken, 1978, pp. 311-360.

Excerpts from the following will be made available:

“Science and University Reform” in Towards the
Definition of Philosophy, trans. T. Sadler, Continuum, 2008, pp. 3-5.

“The Self-Assertion of the German University”
in The Heidegger Reader, trans. G. Veith, ed. G. Figal, Indiana
University Press, 2009, pp. 108-115]

Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. G. Fried and
R. Polt, Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 156-176.

“Poverty,” trans. T. Kalary and F. Schalow in F.
Schalow (ed.), Heidegger, Translation, and the Task of Thinking,
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.

“The Anaximander Fragment,” trans. D. Krell, in
Early Greek Thinking, Harper & Row, 1975, pp. 13-58;

 

Lectures:

• James Risser, Seattle University: “The Ethics of History”

• Peg Birmingham, DePaul University: “Heidegger and Arendt: The Gelassenheit of Earth, World, and Action”

• Will McNeill, DePaul University: “From Phenomenology to Letting-be: On the Way to Gelassenheit”

 

Text Seminar Leaders:

• María Acosta, Universidad de los Andes

• Shane Ewegen, Trinity College

• Gregory Fried, Suffolk University

• Lawrence Hatab, Old Dominion University

• Juan Pablo Hernandez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

• Rick Lee, DePaul University

• Douglas Peduti, Fairfield University

• Josh Robinson, Cambridge University

• Janae Sholtz, Alvernia University

 

 

Week 3, July 22-26

 

Heidegger’s Reticence: From Contributions to Das Ereignis and Toward Gelassenheit

Lecture course by Daniela Vallega-Neu, University of Oregon

 

Readings:

English:

Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event, trans. Rojcewicz and Vallega-Neu. Indiana University Press.

Martin Heidegger, The Event, trans. Rojcewicz. Indiana University Press.

German:

Gesamtausgabe, volume 65: Beiträge zur Philosophie (vom Ereignis)

Gesamtausgabe, volume 71: Das Ereignis

Excerpts from the following will be made available:

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. Stambaugh and Schmidt. SUNY Press. Selections on ontological difference.

Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness, trans. Emad and Kalary. Continuum Press.

Background Reading:

Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction by Daniela Vallega-Neu. Indiana University Press.

 

Lectures:

• Charles Scott, Vanderbilt University: “Technology, Essence, and Everyday Life”

• Andrew Mitchell, Emory University: “The Healing of Being: Heidegger’s Heil”

• Günter Figal, Freiburg University: TBA

 

Text Seminar Leaders:

• Antonio Cimino, Radboud University Nijmegen

• Antonia Egel, Freiburg University

• Eddo Evink, University of Groningen

• Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Radboud University Nijmegen

• Lars Holm-Hansen, University of Bergen

• David Kangas, California State University, Stanislaus

• Ben Vedder, Radboud University Nijmegen

• Nancy Weston, University of California, Berkeley

• Sanem Yazıcıoğlu, Istanbul University

• Krzysztof Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo