Registration is now open for the Sartre Now! Workshop, April 4th and 5th, hosted by the Royal Holloway Centre for Continental Philosophy. The workshop will be online. To receive details of how to participate in the workshop, and to see the programme, please visit the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sartre-now-workshop-tickets-268958430907
‘We speak of Sartre as though he belonged to a bygone era. Alas, we are the ones who in today’s conformist moral order are bygone. At least Sartre allows us to await some vague future moment, a return, when thought will form again and make its totalities anew, like a power that is at once collective and private.’ – Gilles Deleuze.
This workshop addresses the continuing relevance of Sartre’s thought for contemporary philosophical discussions in both the Anglo-American and European traditions. Sartre developed innovative accounts of the nature of the imagination, the philosophy of action, the nature of consciousness, and provided profound engagements with ethics and politics, and the philosophy of race. He provides a path to think an ethics of philosophy as a way of life that continues to provide a model or a provocation for later philosophers. Sartre’s influence on figures such as Deleuze, Badiou, and Derrida has been acknowledged, if in some cases belatedly. This workshop aims to explore both the implications of his thought and its influence on those who came after him.
Organisers:
Prof. Jeffrey A Bell (SELU)
Dr. Henry Somers-Hall (RHUL)