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9. February 2019
1. March 2019 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
22. February 2019 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
14. February 2019 | Events Santa Barbara | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
8. February 2019 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
25. January 2019 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
18. January 2019 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

“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
11. January 2019 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
6. December 2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
25. October 2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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
25. October 2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

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…

11. December 2018
25. October 2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

Seminar with Robert Pogue Harrison: Amor Mundi

Seminar with Robert Pogue Harrison: Amor Mundi 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

October 26, 2018 at 1-4 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Through a discussion of “Amor Mundi,” the final chapter of Harrison’s 2014 work Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, this…

11. December 2018
25. October 2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

Public Lecture by Robert Pogue Harrison: Pondus Amoris

Public Lecture by Robert Pogue Harrison: Pondus Amoris https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/molten_planet_by_cushendun-1024x1024.png 1024 1024 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 11. December 2018 15. February 2019

October 25, 2018 at 4 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Saint Augustine famously declared, “my weight is my love [pondus meum amor meus]. Wherever I am carried by it, it is…

30. April 2018
30.04.-2.5.2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

Trajectories of Spirit

Trajectories of Spirit https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/HansRuinlandscape_resized.jpg 500 300 Nina Rismal Nina Rismal https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f5282558954b8d996670e617ed5ce17?s=96&d=mm&r=g 30. April 2018 15. February 2019

Trajectories of Spirit Three events with philosopher Hans Ruin Professor at Södertörn University, Stockholm and author of Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness…

16. March 2018
16.03.2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

PROVOCATIONS | Session #1 | What do we owe to trolls and Nazis?

PROVOCATIONS | Session #1 | What do we owe to trolls and Nazis? https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-02-22-at-9.26.00-PM_resized_2.jpg 500 300 Nina Rismal Nina Rismal https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f5282558954b8d996670e617ed5ce17?s=96&d=mm&r=g 16. March 2018 15. February 2019

What do we owe to trolls and Nazis? Community Discussion Group PROVOCATIONS | Session #1 March 16th, 2018, 6-8 p.m. SBCAST @ 513 Garden St., Santa Barbara How do democratic virtues change…

13. February 2018
13.02.2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

Stanley Cavell and Emersonian Perfectionism

Stanley Cavell and Emersonian Perfectionism https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Stanley-Cavell.jpg 807 459 Nina Rismal Nina Rismal https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f5282558954b8d996670e617ed5ce17?s=96&d=mm&r=g 13. February 2018 15. February 2019

Stanley Cavell and Emersonian Perfectionism A Seminar with Andrew Norris (UCSB) & Sandra Laugier (Panthéon Sorbonne) February 13th, 2018, 2-5 p.m. Board Room @ Mosher Alumni House, University of California, Santa…

12. February 2018
12.2.2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

The Politics of Voice

The Politics of Voice https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Laugier_ThePoliticsofVoice_resized_2.jpg 500 300 Nina Rismal Nina Rismal https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f5282558954b8d996670e617ed5ce17?s=96&d=mm&r=g 12. February 2018 15. February 2019

The Politics of Voice PERFECTIONISM AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY with Sandra Laugier Author of Recommencer la philosophie: Stanley Cavell et la philosophie en Amérique (Vrin, 2014) and Why We Need Ordinary…

15. January 2018
29.1.2018 | Past Events | Past Events Santa Barbara

Animals, Contradictions and Value

Animals, Contradictions and Value https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/rsz_4537369750_4515e1f92e_z.jpg 500 300 Nina Rismal Nina Rismal https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f5282558954b8d996670e617ed5ce17?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15. January 2018 15. February 2019

Animals, Contradiction, and Value Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney Author of The War Against Animals (Brill, 2015), co-editor of Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016), and convenor of the Human Animal Research…