Levinas, Displacement & Repair - Extended Deadline
deadline for submissions: May 31, 2018
North American Levinas Society – July 31 – August
Emmanuel Levinas writes extensively about the temptations of knowledge and the seductions of intelligibility and intentional consciousness as they enable a fascination for ontology, power, and war. For nearly 13 years, the North American Levinas Society has worked to preserve and focus this critique through social apertures that privilege questions of historical violence, transgenerational suffering, memory and repair. As a society, we have not only struggled together through difficult exegesis with Levinas’ work, but we have also sought to bring such ethical critique into dialogue with other philosophers of liberation, postcolonial scholars, indigenous intellectuals, Asian American scholars, philosophers of diaspora, religious thinkers, and victims and survivors of modern national projects, ecological devastation, and global economy. For our 13th annual conference, the NALS invites… read more