Postmodernism,
Culture and Religion 4
“The
Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion”
Syracuse
University | April 7-9,
2011
Plenary
Speakers:
JOHN D. CAPUTO
Watson
Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Syracuse
University (http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html)
PHILIP GOODCHILD
Professor
of Theology and Religious Studies
University
of Nottingham (UK) (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Theology/People/philip.goodchild)
CATHERINE MALABOU
Professor
of Philosophy
University
of Paris-X, Nanterre (http://www.u-paris10.fr/10980645/0/fiche_EE8__pagelibre/)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper submissions are invited on the topic “The Future of Continental
Philosophy of Religion,” its past and present, its history and its
prospects, in the widest possible terms, addressing the whole range of its
implications—politics, feminism, constructive theology, philosophy, history,
literature, interfaith dialogue, and the hermeneutics of sacred texts.
In the past, these conferences, which have provided a forum for the most
influential philosophers, theologians, and cultural theorists to interact, have
consisted solely of several keynote speakers. This conference will be
different. It will feature three plenary speakers and offer multiple
concurrent sessions devoted to papers submitted on a diversity of issues
relating to the primary theme. This call for papers is deliberately open,
befitting the conference’s animating concern with the future.
Papers are invited that address questions like (but not limited to) the
following. What now, or what comes next—specifically, after the death, if
not of God, at least of the generation consisting of Derrida, Deleuze,
Foucault, Levinas, etc.? This question concerns not only the future after
those significant theorists, but also the future after-life of these
eminent minds who have left such a deep impact on Continental philosophy of
religion. What is the future of Kant and German Idealism, of Kierkegaard
and Nietzsche in Continental philosophy of religion? What remains for the
future of phenomenology? Of the “theological turn” in the
phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion and others? Of Gadamer, Ricoeur and
philosophical hermeneutics? Of apophatic or mystical theology? What
is the future of feminism and Continental philosophy of religion? What
are the status and future of the new trinity of Agamben, Badiou and Zizek? What
relevance do the political interpretations of Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, and
the more recent Continental philosophers such as François Laruelle and
Catherine Malabou have to philosophy of religion and political theology?
What about the future of sovereignty, of money and capitalism, as in the work
of Philip Goodchild? What is the future of the movements of Radical
Orthodoxy and of radical death of God theology, whether in their original or
contemporary manifestations? What about the new sciences of information
and complexity in thinkers like Mark C. Taylor and Michel Serres? What
about Continental philosophy of religion and our “companion species” in Donna
Haraway? What about “Post-Humanism”? What is the future of
Continental Philosophy of religion and Judaism? And Islam? Or world
religions generally? What is the relationship between postmodernism,
religion and postcolonialism? What role can Continental philosophy play
in the future of religion? In the professional study of religion?
How does Continental philosophical theology relate to the ethnological and
empirical-scientific study of religion? How does Continental
philosophy of religion differ from traditional philosophy of religion? Or
from analytic philosophy of religion? What is continental
philosophy of religion anyway?
Instructions: Submit electronic copies of completed papers (up to
3000 words). Abstracts cannot be considered. Papers will be subject
to a double blind review by a selection committee. Include your name,
paper title and contact information on a separate page. Include the paper
title but not your name on a header or footer on each numbered page of the
paper itself. The papers must be previously unpublished in any
format. The Conference reserves the right of first refusal of the
submitted paper for inclusion in a projected volume to be based upon the conference.
Paper submissions are due by December 15, 2010
and acceptances will be made by February 15, 2011. Send your papers to: pcrconf@syr.edu.