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Forelæsning
Forelæsning — Listening and speaking bring with them the problem of immediacy. That which is immediate is pure presence. However if pure presence were a genuine possibility then practices of interpretation - including the ‘invention’ of allegorical interpretation - would be unnecessary. Moses listened to the word of God. And yet the registration of those words is writing; writing as that which can be understood as an-original mediation. The aim of this lecture will be to look in detail at the problem of immediacy and mediation and ask the question of the extent to which listening might be understood as a form of reading.
Date & Time:
Place:
Place: South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads 16, auditorium 9A.0.01
Hosted by:
CJMC & PhD School, Faculty of Theology, UCPH
Cost:
Free
Abstract:
Listening and speaking bring with them the problem of immediacy. That which is immediate is pure presence. However if pure presence were a genuine possibility then practices of interpretation – including the ‘invention’ of allegorical interpretation – would be unnecessary. Moses listened to the word of God. And yet the registration of those words is writing; writing as that which can be understood as an-original mediation. The aim of this lecture will be to look in detail at the problem of immediacy and mediation and ask the question of the extent to which listening might be understood as a form of reading.
Bio:
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University Melbourne and Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Kingston University London. His recent publications include: Towards a Relational Ontology. Philosophy’s Other Possibility (SUNY Press, 2015); Art’s Philosophical Work (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) and Virtue in Being (SUNY Press, 2016).
Participation is free, but online registration required by November 7, 2017