2011 Call for Papers (pdf)

The eleventh annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 14-17, 2011 at the Sundance Resort, Sundance, Utah, and hosted by Utah Valley University.

Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximum to be prepared for blind review.

Submission Deadline is: Monday 15 November 2010.

Inquiries and submissions should be directed to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org

We are proud to announce that the two keynote speakers for the 2011 conference will be:

Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished
Service Professor of Law and Ethics,
University of Chicago

Walter Brogan
Professor of Philosophy,
Villanova University

BEING AND TRUTH
Martin Heidegger
Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt

“Fried and Polt’s translation of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Truth is a well-crafted and careful rendering of an important and demanding volume of the Complete Works.” —Andrew Mitchell, Emory University

In these lectures, delivered in 1933–1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger’s thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world. While the lectures are strongly nationalistic and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of the time, they also attack theories of racial supremacy in an attempt to stake out a distinctively Heideggerian understanding of what it means to be a people. This careful translation offers valuable insight into Heidegger’s views on language, truth, animality, and life, as well as his political thought and activity.

Studies in Continental Thought
256 pp., 5 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-35511-9 $39.95

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Rob Metcalf, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver and graduate of the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Philosophy, joins Christopher Long for episode 34 of the Digital Dialogue.

Rob’s work focuses on ancient philosophy, phenomenology, ethics, philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy.

We recorded this episode at Michigan State where we were attending the annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. Our discussion focused on his and Mark Tanzer’s recent translation of Heidegger’s 1924 lecture course entitled Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy.

Digital Dialogue 34: Metcalf on Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle

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Minimum qualifications: ABD with significant teaching experience. PhD preferred.

Review of applications begins immediately with the position open until filled.

To learn more about and apply for this position please visit Skidmore’s website at:
jobs.skidmore.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52269

Our own Sean Kirkland has an article in the volume entitled, Speed and Tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles. Other contributors include Terry Eagleton, Tina Chanter, and Luce Irigaray.

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Check out Cain’s full review, which appears in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.04.71.

Here is a link to the book, available from Amazon.com.

Catherine Zuckert has recently published an extensive study of the dialogues entitled Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues with the University of Chicago Press.  In that text, she offers a reading of the dialogues in accordance with the chronological order of the drama they articulate.

We also talked about the Ancient Philosophy Society in general and continued our ongoing discussion of the meaning and nature of Plato’s writing.

Digital Dialogue 33: Brill, Gordon and Long on Zuckert’s Keynote at APS 2010

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The recording includes my reading of the paper, Anne-Marie Bowery’s commentary and the questions and discussion from those gathered at the APS meeting at MSU.  This is the first of a series of Digital Dialogues recorded at the MSU meeting of the APS.  I will post others here too as they are released.

Digital Dialogue 32: Christopher Long at APS 2010: The Topology of Socratic Politics

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Thank you to everyone who made the 2010 APS conference possible.

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I would also like to invite you to listen to Ryan Drake and I talk about the paper I will give on Saturday at the conference.  The paper is on the Protagoras and Ryan joined me on episode 31 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss some of the issues I will raise in that paper.  Thanks, Ryan, for a great conversation.

Listen to episode 31 entitled Shame and Justice here.

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For more information, visit my Digital Dialogue blog and the page related to my project on Socratic Politics.

I hope everyone has a safe trip to East Lansing, and don’t forget, if you tweet, use the #APS10 hash tag!