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9. February 2019
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The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy’s Philosophy and Aesthetics

The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy’s Philosophy and Aesthetics https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tolstoi-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 9. February 2019 5. March 2019

March 1, 2019 at 10 a.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A The cognitive value of love or the dynamic between love and knowledge for Tolstoy is not only a philosophical conundrum explored…

11. February 2019
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The Universal, the Individual, and the Novel: Hegel, Austen, and Ethical Formation

The Universal, the Individual, and the Novel: Hegel, Austen, and Ethical Formation https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Adolph_Menzel_web-1024x649.jpg 1024 649 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 11. February 2019 5. March 2019

February 22, 2019 at 10 a.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A The seminar will focus on Professor Lewis’s recent piece “The Universal, the Individual, and the Novel: Hegel, Austen, and Ethical Formation,”…

14. February 2019
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Democratic Affections

Democratic Affections https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/WaldenPondatSunriseOctober2013-1024x768.jpg 1024 768 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14. February 2019 7. March 2019

The death in 2018 of Stanley Cavell brought to its ends an exceptionally rich life in philosophy, one that continues to inspire readers and colleagues throughout the humanities and the…

25. January 2019
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A Cartography of Love

A Cartography of Love https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Martijn-in-love.png 974 660 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 25. January 2019 15. February 2019

February 8, 2019 at 10 a.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A It is a common grievance among readers of the work of Martin Heidegger that the existential analytic of Daseinhe develops is…

19. January 2019
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Climate of Doubt

Climate of Doubt https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/down-to-earth.w250.h140.jpg 500 280 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19. January 2019 20. February 2019

January 25, 2019 at 10 a.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A The persistence of climate change denial in spite of popular and scientific consensus of the human impact on global warming seems…

15. December 2018
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“Religious Affections” and the Birth of Publicity in Modern America

“Religious Affections” and the Birth of Publicity in Modern America https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/george-whitefield-preaching-1024x662.jpg 1024 662 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15. December 2018 15. February 2019

January 18, 2019 at 10 a.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A The public expression of anger and even hate that we witness in our time—stirred up on social media and at campaign…

15. December 2018
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Werner Herzog’s Post-Tragic Aesthetic: a Kierkegaardian Perspective

Werner Herzog’s Post-Tragic Aesthetic: a Kierkegaardian Perspective https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/tim_treadwell_large-1024x943.jpg 1024 943 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15. December 2018 20. February 2019

January 11, 2019 at 10 a.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Many of Werner Herzog’s films portray protagonists who exhibit forms of subjectivity that dangerously overflow the conditions imposed by the substantial…

11. December 2018
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Seminar with Jonathan Lear: Gettysburg Mourning

Seminar with Jonathan Lear: Gettysburg Mourning https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Lincolnatgettysburg.jpg 1003 816 Nina Rismal Nina Rismal https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f5282558954b8d996670e617ed5ce17?s=96&d=mm&r=g 11. December 2018 15. February 2019

December 6, 2018 at 3 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy; Roman Family Director of…

11. December 2018
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From Anxiety to Boredom: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and the Secularization of Anxiety in Existentialist Thought

From Anxiety to Boredom: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and the Secularization of Anxiety in Existentialist Thought https://hscif.org/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 11. December 2018 15. February 2019

November 30, 2018 at 1 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A While Kierkegaard conceives of anxiety as the psychological presupposition of the dogma of original sin, and while Heidegger himself draws heavily…

11. December 2018
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God and the Science of Emotion, or A Spinozist Answer to the Question: “Why Did the Affective Turn Take Place?”

God and the Science of Emotion, or A Spinozist Answer to the Question: “Why Did the Affective Turn Take Place?” https://hscif.org/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 11. December 2018 15. February 2019

November 29, 2018 at 4 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge of interest in emotional phenomena. But while the emotions themselves have been extensively studied, the…

The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy’s Philosophy and Aesthetics

The Universal, the Individual, and the Novel: Hegel, Austen, and Ethical Formation

Democratic Affections

A Cartography of Love

Climate of Doubt

“Religious Affections” and the Birth of Publicity in Modern America

Werner Herzog’s Post-Tragic Aesthetic: a Kierkegaardian Perspective

Seminar with Jonathan Lear: Gettysburg Mourning

From Anxiety to Boredom: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and the Secularization of Anxiety in Existentialist Thought

God and the Science of Emotion, or A Spinozist Answer to the Question: “Why Did the Affective Turn Take Place?”

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