Oh wow this looks awesome. I'll hitchike there if I have to.
This year's Summer School is organized by Michael Forster and Markus Gabriel (discussed briefly in this post), and in addtion to Gabriel, Willem DeVries, Paul Redding, and Robert Stern will all be lecturing.
I'm in the middle of two Stern books and they're just dynamite, After Virtue level dynamite where you start reading at eleven and then realize it's four in the morning and don't know where the time has gone.
It does look intellectually fabulous, but I can’t help noticing that it is yet another high profile funded German philosophical event with an all male line-up.
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Yes, important to point out.
Does anyone have any statistics on how different countries might be different in typical gender balance at philosophy conferences? It might be impossible to gather in a scientific sense, maybe the best we can do is look at percentages of professors and compare that with impressions?
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Looks fantastic. Apart, of course, from the absence of female speakers.
Which Stern books, out of interest?
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His Routledge guide to the Phenomenology ( http://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Philosophy-GuideBook-Phenomenology-GuideBooks/dp/0415217881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389731773&sr=8-1&keywords=robert+stern+hegel ) which strikes me as the best such book (I’m also reading Taylor and Findlay’s great books).
I’ve also read about half of his newer Hegelian Metaphysics ( http://www.amazon.com/Hegelian-Metaphysics-Robert-Stern/dp/0199640114/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1389731773&sr=8-3&keywords=robert+stern+hegel ) which is fascinating in all sorts of ways. He ties his own interpretation of Hegel to the British Hegelians, the American Pragmatists, and Deleuze.
I think that people with analytic training have a tremendous amount of difficulty getting into Deleuze first and foremost as a philosopher of difference. But what Deleuze was doing with “ideas” as a way to deal with the breakdown of Kant’s intuition/concept distinction is an easier way to move in. When I get clear enough to connect that up with the privileging of difference over identity I’ll be pretty happy. I think Stern’s discussion (as well as work by Dan Smith, John Protevi, Levi Bryant, and Jeff Bell) points things in the right way here.
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