Seminar 17

Seminar 17
Kafka and Philosophy

Thursday, 9 February 2012
1.25 pm – 5.00 pm

University of Western Sydney
Bankstown Campus, Building 20, Room G.06

Cost: Admission Free
Please RSVP to philosophy@uws.edu.au

Franz Kafka is perhaps the most often discussed modernist author by philosophers. From Benjamin and Adorno to Blanchot, Derrida and Deleuze, to mention just some of the most prominent philosophers, Kafka has been the subject of many essays and books. What has been so alluring about Kafka so that philosophers have a compulsion to return to his writings? The “Sydney Seminar” Kafka and Philosophy provides a series of possible answers to the above question.

To find out more information and listen to the seminar recordings please visit Sydney Seminar website. (opens in a new window)

Programme:

1.30 pm to 3.00 pm
Paul Alberts (University of Western Sydney)
Knowing Life Before the Law

Dimitris Vardoulakis (University of Western Sydney)
Kafka’s Empty Law: Laughter and Freedom in The Trial

3.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Coffee Break

3.30 pm to 5.00 pm
Chris Conti (University of Western Sydney)
Kafka’s The Trial: In Search of the Metaphysical Crime Novel

Henry Sussman (Yale University)
The Calculable, the Incalculable, and the Rest: Kafka’s Virtual Environment

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