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Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy

The BU Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy is an annual forum for presenting new work on late-eighteenth through early-twentieth-century philosophy.    

THEME FOR 2016: 
The theme for the 2016 workshop is humor in late modern philosophy. Humor emerged as an aesthetic category with the enthusiastic reception of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy in Germany.  It was quickly embraced as philosophically significant by philosophers such as Hegel and by literary theorists and artists of the Romantic movement such as Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and E.T.A Hoffman.  Later authors such as Henrich Heine employed humor as part of their philosophical approach to literature; philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in turn made humor central to the actual articulation of their philosophies.   Speakers at the workshop will discuss these thinkers, among others. 

ORGANIZERS:
Paul Katsafanas (BU)
Lydia Moland (Colby College)

FORMAT: 
The Workshop provides speakers with an opportunity to receive constructive feedback on work in progress.  Papers are distributed in advance and should be read prior to the workshop.  At the workshop, the participants give brief summaries of their papers; this is followed by an hour of discussion per paper.  The discussion is open to all audience members.  

LOCATION: 
725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 326


PAST WORKSHOPS:
2011 Workshop

2012 Workshop
2013 Workshop
2014 Workshop



2015/16 Workshop Schedule


Friday, April 8

2:15 Opening, Introduction

2:30-3:50  Lydia Moland (Colby College)
“The Ends of Art: Hegel on Comedy and Humor from Aristophanes to Jean Paul”


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4:00-5:20 Allen Speight (BU)
“Caricature, Philosophy and the Aesthetics of the Ugly: Some Questions for Rosenkranz”


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5:30-6:20 Christopher Ricks (BU)
“The Humours and Dispositions of Tristram Shandy”
(note: paper will not be posted in advance) 


​ 6:30-7:30 Reception (BU Pub) 



Saturday, April 9

10:00-11:20 Frederick Beiser (Syracuse)
​“Humor as Redemption in the Pessimistic Philosophy of Julius Bahnsen”


​11:30-12:50 Marcia Robinson (Syracuse)
“‘What Time Is It?....Eternity’: Kierkegaard’s Socratic Use of Hegel’s Insights on Romantic Humor” 


2:30-3:50 John Lippitt (University of Hertfordshire)
“Jest as Humility: Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Virtue” 


4:00-5:20 Matthew Meyer (University of Scranton)
“The Divine Hanswurst: Nietzsche on Laughter and Comedy” 





Supported by the BU Center for the Humanities and Colby College, Office of the Provost 
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