The 6th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle

The 6th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle March 2-5, 2011 University College Cork / Cork, Republic of Ireland Wednesday 7:30pm, March (Gresham Metropole) Welcome / Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK CCPC Presidential Address / David Jones, Kennesaw State University USA CCPC Program and Organization Address / Michael Schwartz, Augusta State University USA CCPC Greetings / Jason Wirth, Seattle University USA 2011 Opening Reception Thursday 9-10:30, March (Gresham Metropole) A Experience and Language in Ueda Shizuteru’s Philosophy of Zen / Bret W Davis, Loyola University Maryland USA Notes on the Concept of Time in Asian and European Thought Tradition / Rein Raud, Tallinn University Estonia B Generation (shēng 生) as Link between Nature and Human in Early Chinese Philosophy / Franklin Perkins, DePaul University USA Why Jijigua 既既既 Is the Best of All: Position, Transformation and Their Philosophical Implications / Robin Wang Loyola Marymount University USA) Thursday 10:45 -12:15 A Virtue as Power in the Laozi and Spinoza / Jason Dockstader, University College Cork UK From Comparison to Convergence: Reflections on Steven Burik’s Comparisons of Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism / David Storey, Fordham University USA B Hegel and Absolute Difference / Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology USA Gadamer and Hegel on Experience / Frederique Rese, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany C The Japanese language in Dōgen's usage / Ralf Müller, Humboldt-University Germany Is Koselleck’s Wirkungsgeschichte Applicable to China?— Translation, Comparative Philosophy, and Comparative Culture / Sinkwan Cheng, USA Thursday, Lunch 12:15-2:00 Thursday 2:00-3:00 Plenary Session I Mountain Landscapes / John Sallis, Boston College USA (Moderator: Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology USA) Thursday 3:15-4:45 A Śūnyatā—kong/ku(生) -What It Says Through The Art? / Jinli He, Trinity University USA Heidegger, Levinas, and Intergenerational Justice / Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University Canada B Eckhart and Dōgen: the Continuous Self-Revelation of Buddha-Nature / André van der Braak, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands Nāgārjuna analysis of the Self: Annihilation without nihilism / Itay Ehre, Ben Gurion University Israel C Marxism and Buddhism: Shared Visions / James Stiles, West Chester University USA Buddhist Marxism: Mao and Badiou / Bill Martin, DePaul University USA Thursday 5-6:00 Plenary Session II An Inquiry into the Good and Nishida’s Missing Basho / James W Heisig, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture Japan (Moderator: Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK) Thursday 8:00- onwards (UCC Campus) Evening Reception Friday 9-10:30, March (Gresham Metropole) A Cadences: Between Earth and Technicity, Between Earth and Art Silent Call of the Earth: Art and Technicity in Heidegger’s Work of the Mid-1930s / Will McNeill, DePaul University USA The Earth, Flesh, Carbon: The Elemental Art of Finitude in the Thought of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Hirst / Andrea Rehberg, Middle East Technical University Turkey B Comparative Philosophy: Whither Now? / Geir Sigurdsson, Reykyavik University Iceland/ Western Philosophy and Eastern Power / David Williams, Cardiff University UK C Acts of Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Moses / Lyat Friedman, Bar Ilan University Israel The Haudenosaunee Double / Brian Seitz, Babson College USA Friday 10:45 – 12:15 A On the paradigmatic character of comparative hermeneutics / James Risser, Seattle University USA Symptoms of Withdrawal: The Hermeneutic Complexity of Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s Conceptual Structuring of Hindu Religion and Philosophy / Sai Bhatawadekar, University of Hawai'i USA B Why Melody at All? On Music and Emptiness / Meilin Chinn, University of Hawai’iManoa USA Difficult Freedom: Hegel’s Symbolic Art and Schelling’s Historiography in The Ages of the World / Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Canada C If God Is Dead, Then Tragedy Is Religious: On the Religious Turn in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy / Louis A Ruprecht, Jr., Georgia State University USA The Silence of the Origin in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy / Niall Keane, University of Limerick UK Friday, Lunch 12:15-2:00 Friday 2:00 – 3:00 Plenary Session III Roundtable Zen and Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Responding to Bret Davis Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK Jason Wirth, Seattle University USA Bret W Davis, Loyola University Maryland USA (Moderator: David Jones, Kennesaw State University USA) Friday 3:15-4:45 A From Abgrund to Urgrund: On Luigi Pareyson's Constructivist Hermeneutics / Peter Carravetta, SUNY-Stony Brook USA Bateson's Left Hand / Elizabeth Sikes, University of Seattle, USA and Sarah Williams, Evergreen State College USA B Hermeneutics and the Texture of Mathematics / Bernard Freydberg, Duquesne University USA Transformative Phenomenology / Rolf Elberfeld, University of Hildesheim Germany C No Perch: Giorgio Agamben and the Profane (A Buddhist Reading) / Steven DeCaroli Goucher College USA Is the Buddhist Face Raced? / Sokthan Yeng, Adelphi University USA Friday 5:00-6:00 Plenary Session IV Roundtable On Erin McCarthy’s Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies Leah Kalmanson, Drake University USA /Between Bodies: Rethinking Selfhood with Erin McCarthy Bradley Park, St Mary’s College of Maryland USA Erin McCarthy, Saint Lawrence University USA (Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes, University of Seattle, USA) Friday 8:00-onwards (UCC Campus) Evening Reception Saturday 9:00-10:15, March (UCC Campus) A Deleuze-Post-War Cinema and a world of constant modulation / Mauro Di Lullo, The University of Glasgow UK From the Sublime to the Event; the Great Wave / Connell Vaughan, UCD- Dublin, UK School of Philosophy B The Interpretation of Death in Being and Time / Morganna Lambeth, University of California at Riverside USA Comparative Examination of the Dying Mind / Ira Gredenberg, University College Cork UK Saturday 10:30-11:45 A Buddhist Approach to Ryle’s Mind / Gyan Prakash, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay India Heidegger and Representationalism: Clarifying the Phenomenal Content / Robert Kubala, University of Cambridge UK B From the Depths of Aesthetic Expression: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty and the Body / Ryan Shriver, University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Perceptual Faith and Philosophic Practice / Adam Loughnane, University College Cork UK Saturday Lunch 11:45-1:30 Saturday 1:30-2:45 A Making Sense of Nietzsche’s “Truths”: Slavery, Misogyny and Aristocracy / Steven Burgess, University of South Florida USA The Non-voluntary Character of Nietzsche’s Will to Power / Sarah Flavel, University College Cork UK B Heidegger's Ontological Difference and the Concept of the Migrant / Andrea Martinez, University College Cork UK Butterflies Dancing into the Distance: Self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zhuangzi’s Perspectivism / Marshall Staton, Kennesaw State University USA Saturday 3-4:15 A Kukai's notion of reality embodiment and Eriugena's concept of natura / Margaret Twomey, University College Cork UK Nishida and Nature: recognizing the importance of difference for a radical revision of the relationship of humans to the environment / Matthew Izor, University of Hawaii at Manoa USA B Ikkyu’s Notion of Nothing / Andrew Whitehead, University College Cork UK Is Religious Dialogue Possible? / Saladdin Ahmed, University of Ottawa Canada Saturday 4:15-5:30 A Hybrid Language and Hybrid Thought: Haikai and Phenomenology in an essay by Kuki Shūzō / Lorenzo Marinucci, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' Italy Miki Kiyoshi’s Conception of Community / Kenn Steffensen, University College Cork UK B Inner Sections: Hegel's Heuristic Ideal and the Tragic Spirit of the Phenomenology / Chris Cappelletti, University College Cork, UK Art Making Artists: A philosophical genealogy of participatory art / Brian Herczog, University of Warwick UK ... Silent Call of the Earth: Art and Technicity in Heidegger’s Work of the Mid-1930s / Will McNeill, DePaul University USA The Earth, Flesh, Carbon: The Elemental Art of Finitude in the Thought of Heidegger,... Mauro Di Lullo, The University of Glasgow UK From the Sublime to the Event; the Great Wave / Connell Vaughan, UCD- Dublin, UK School of Philosophy B The Interpretation of Death in Being and Time... of Hawai’iManoa USA Difficult Freedom: Hegel’s Symbolic Art and Schelling’s Historiography in The Ages of the World / Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Canada C If God Is Dead, Then