Keynote Speakers
STEPHEN MULHALL
Scepticism and Modernism, Philosophy and Literature
Abstract: In this lecture, I want to explore the ways in which the work of Stanley Cavell (viewed in conjunction with work by the theorist, historian and critic of art, Michael Fried) uses the idea of theatricality to conceptualize the complex interconnections between the sceptical impulse as it expresses itself in modern philosophy and in modern art, and the strategies of acknowledgement that aspire to overcome that impulse in both cultural fields. In this way, I hope to show that the respect these thinkers show for modernism, within and without the arts of painting, sculpture and literature, has not been rendered obsolete or otiose by the cultural advance of postmodernism.
Bio: Prof. Stephen Mulhall is the Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy at New College, Oxford. His research interests include Wittgenstein; Heidegger, Sartre and Nietzsche; the philosophy of religion; and the relations between philosophy and the arts (especially literature and film).
Speakers
ZED ADAMS - NAT HANSEN
The Hope of Agreement: Cavell on Aesthetic Judgment
SASHA BLICKHAN
Taking ethics personally: Perspectival virtue ethics
LÉA BOMAN
Emerson’s claim for inconsistency: moral perfectionism and rationality in Cavell’s philosophy
SIMONA BUSNI - EMILIANO MORREALE
Stanley Cavell, philosopher of melodrama
FILIPPO CASATI
A Cavellian Solution to a Heideggerian Problem
BAPTISTE CORNARDEAU
The Limits of Practice. Stanley Cavell, Pragmatism, and the Value of Action
LUIGI CORRIAS
Acknowledgement after Dehumanization: Cavell and an Ethos of Reconciliation
MICHELLE DEVEREAUX
Orders from an Unborn Baby: Maternal Scepticism, Vengeance and Voicelessness in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge
ANDREA DI GESÙ
Cavell, Wittgenstein and the possibility of an ecological biopolitics
PIERGIORGIO DONATELLI
Filming democracy: reciprocity and irony
RICHARD ELDRIDGE
Cavell and the Achievement of Selfhood
MATTEO FALOMI
The Paradox of Reading
CHRISTOPHER FENWICK
Stanley Cavell and Ethical Criticism
NIKLAS FORSBERG
Two Historical Periods Within One Human Breast
FRANCESCO GANDELLINI
Between Transcendental and Grammatical. Cavell reader of Kant
RICO GUTSCHMIDT
Cavell and Theology. Skepticism and the Fallen State of Mankind
GARRY HAGBERG
Stanley Cavell, the Language of Selfhood, and his Writings on Henry James
PETER HAJNAL
Tact, Touch, and Playfulness:
Anti-Cartesian Concepts for a Materialist Aesthetics of Digital Media
PAUL JENNER
Scepticism and the Ordinary in Stanley Cavell and Marilynne Robinson
VIKTOR JOHANSSON
An Exercise in Sámi Philosophising: Indigeneity, the Young Child, and an Ethics of Cultural Translation
LYRA KOLI
Stanley Cavell’s Untouchable Othello: Scepticism and Suspension of Disbelief
FRANCO LA CECLA
The influence of Cavell on Anthropology, with Special Reference to Veena Das
DAVID LAROCCA
Reflexiveness and Self-Reflection in Cavell’s Memoir
INGEBORG LÖFGREN
The Truth in Skepticism and the Truth in Formalism: Stanley Cavell, Cleanth Brooks, and the Acknowledgment of Interpretative
RACHEL MALKIN
Stanley Cavell’s Critical Afterlives
ANDREA MAISTRELLO
Ordinary vs Commonplace: Cavell and Danto on Everydayness and Art
LISA MCKEOWN
Acknowledging Passionate Utterances
PHILIP MILLS
Poetic Perlocutions: Poetry after Cavell after Austin
FRANCESCO PESCI
Cavell on the distinctiveness of moral language
MICHAEL RAEBER
Democratic Visibility: The import of Cavell’s aesthetics of film to a political philosophy of democratic visibility
DAVID RUDRUM
Stanley Cavell and performance philosophy
PIOTER SHMUGLIAKOV
Cavell and evental thought
DAVID SEBASTIANI
Release Formulae: Improvisation and the Dream of Spontaneity
DAVIDE SPARTI
Projective imagination. Cavell and the improvisatory dimension of language.
DOMENICO SPINOSA
Not only Wittgenstein and Thoreau. About some philosophical and literary refractions in The World Viewed
TEMENUGA TRIFONOVA
The ‘Ordinary’ in Cavell
TIMUR UÇAN
Climate Justice, Skepticism and Perfectionism
ANDREA VAILATI
The ethopoietic of acknowledgment: Cavell’s Hollywood comedy of remarriage meets Foucault’s Hermeneutics of the subject
CATHERINE WHEATLEY
Coming to Wonder: Stanley Cavell and Film’s Renewal of Vision
ATHANASSIA WILLIAMSON
Skepticism and the Novel: A Dialogue
YO-RAN YANG
The Sense of Therapy: Reflections on Glück and Cavell