Critique in German Philosophy
DePaul University
Chicago, November 9-11, 2017
Sponsored by the University Research Council (URC) and Department of Philosophy at DePaul University, St. Mary’s University Office of Sponsored Project, Academic Research, and Compliance (SPARC) and Department of Philosophy, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Organized by María del Rosario Acosta López (Associate Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University) and J. Colin McQuillan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Mary’s University)
Thursday, November 9, Cortelyou Commons
5:15-6:00 Peter Fenves, Northwestern University, “From the Metaphysics of Right to the Critique of Violence”
6:00-7:30 Keynote Lecture, Christoph Menke, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, “The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique”
7:30 Reception
Friday, November 10, Cortelyou Commons
10:00-11:00 Avery Goldman, DePaul University. “Critique in Kant’sCritique of Practical Reason: on Why this is not a Critique of Pure Practical Reason”
11:00-12:00 Rachel Zuckert, Northwestern University. “Critique with a small “c”: Herder’s critical philosophical practice and anti-Critical polemics”
12:00-1:00 Catalina Gonzalez, Universidad de los Andes. “Dogmatism, Skepticism, and Criticism in the Prussian Royal Academy”
1:00-2:30 Lunch Break
2:30-3:30 G. Anthony Bruno, McGill University. “Schelling’s Philosophical Letters on Doctrine and Critique”
3:30-4:30 Elizabeth Millan, DePaul University. “Alexander von Humboldt: A Romantic Critic of Nature”
4:30-4:45 Coffee Break
4:45-5:45 Rudolf A. Makkreel, Emory University, “Kantian Critique and its Development in Hermann Cohen and Wilhelm Dilthey”
5:45-6:00 Coffee Break
6:00-7:30 Keynote Lecture, Karin de Boer, KU Leuven. “Kant’s Critique of Wolffian Metaphysics in Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, the Inaugural Dissertation, and the Critique of Pure Reason”
Saturday, November 11, Richardson Library, Room 400
10:00-11:00 Angelica Nuzzo, CUNY, “Critique, Refutation, Appropriation: Strategies of Hegel's Dialectic”
11:00-12:00 Rocío Zambrana, University of Oregon. “Abstraction and Critique in Marx’sCapital”
12:00-1:00 Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University. “Making a Specter Out of Marx: The Reformist Agenda of Contemporary Critical Theory”
1:00-2:30 Lunch Break
2:30-3:30 Smaranda Aldea, Kent State University, “Phenomenology as Critique: Subversions and Matrices of Intelligibility”
3:30-4:30 Rick Lee, DePaul University. “Is there critique in Critical Theory?”
4:30-4:45 Coffee Break
4:45-5:45 Florian Klinger, University of Chicago, “The Use of Critique”
5:45-6:00 Coffee Break
6:00-7:30 Keynote Lecture, Amy Allen, Penn State University. “The Limits of Immanent Critique”
8:00 Conference Dinner