Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen and Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen
invite you for the symposium
Philosophy and Literature
Wednesday December 21, 2016
10:30 – 18:00
venue:
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen
Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL Groningen, The Netherlands
Program:
10:30 welcome
11:00 opening
11:10 Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University, USA:
“A Bird as Rare upon the Earth as a Black Swan”: The Dream of an Unusable Friendship in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship
12:30 lunch
14:00 Thijs Lijster, University of Groningen, The Netherlands:
The Actuality of the Essay Form. Philosophical writing in Benjamin and Adorno
15:00 Jeroen Vanheste, Open University, The Netherlands:
A humanism of the ‘homo Dei’. Thomas Mann’s ideas about the European cultural identity
16:00 pause
16:20 Arthur Cools, University of Antwerp, Belgium:
The World of Literary Fiction
17:20 drinks
There is no registration fee but please register at: c.e.evink@rug.nl