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ARTICULATIONS:A CONFERENCE ON ART &PHILOSOPHY

A CONFERENCE AT THENEW SCHOOL FORSOCIAL RESEARCHKEYNOTE SPEAKERS: STANLEY CAVELL(HARVARD UNIVERSITY) &

DMITRI NIKULIN(NEW SCHOOL FORSOCIAL RESEARCH)APRIL 22

ND-23

RD, 2010

In crafting the ideal city in the Republic, Socrates banishes the poets yet continues to recitemyths in advancing his arguments, thus blurring any firm boundary he ostensibly proposed

between the arts and philosophy. With this inaugural moment of the Western tradition, Platointen tly draws our at ten tion to the question of their relationship. Philosophy and art have

been continually entangled, their relationship in question, their necessity to each otherdismissed and insisted upon in turn.

Philosophy has ever defended itself by dividing itself from some thing, foremost i ts own past but it has always felt a par ticular threat from the realm of art. It would, of course, be too quickto say that philosophys relation to art is one of mere competition and struggle. Philosophy

has perpetually returned to the aesthetic in considering the relation between the sensible andthe intelligible, in thinking about the ethical, in contemplating beauty, and even inconsideration of its own grounding and form. Art therefore occupies a distinguished, if

precarious, relation to philosophy.

Throughout an underlying question lingers: Is there something special about art, something itdoes tha t makes it in the end incommensurable with what philosophy does? It is precisely thisrelation tha t this conference aspires to explore.

We invit e high quality philosophical pursuits on such topics as, but no t limited to the following:

Aesthetics from a Historical Perspective Hume on Taste Kant on the Sublime Adorno on Aesthetic Experience Wittgenstein on the Imagination Arendt on Greek Tragedy Davidson on Metaphor Serious philosophical engagements with

specific works of art.

Thematic Topics Whether tragic structures are the only way to think humanfinitude

The experience of temporality in art The role of art in a philosophical education The role of performativity in philosophy The philosophical availability of non-discursive artworks The role of genius and originality in artistic and

philosophical endeavors Whether art can be unethical The end of art What constitutes a work of art The role of art in contemporary philosophical discourses,

e.g. feminist theory, pos t-colonial theory, psychoanalysis, etc.

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO:nssr.articulations@gmail.com

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER16TH

, 2009

Papers should be sent as word documents, not exceeding 5000 words.Personal information is to be sent in the body of the email and should not appear on the paper itself.