Topic: LEVINAS’ METAPHYSICS : RIGHT OF THE OTHER
A Century with Levinas:
the Emmanuel Levinas Centennial
LEVINAS’ METAPHYSICS : RIGHT OF THE OTHER
Conference at Department of Philosophy
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
October 27-28, 2006
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Ph.D.
Prof. Plamen Makariev, Ph. D.
Prof. Ivan Kolev
Departmant of Philosophy
Sofia University
15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
Sofia 1504
Bulgaria
Tel./Fax: 00 359 2 8777 108
Tel.: 00 359 2 9308 414
E-mail: mgungov@abv.bg
Mobile phone: 359 899 55 8778
27 of October
9: 30 Official Opening
10: 00 – 10: 30
Prof. Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Université de Picardie, France.
Emmanuel Levinas and Ernst Cassirer:
a hidden affinity
10: 30 – 11: 00
Prof. Ivanka Rainova, University of Vienna and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sofia , Bulgaria
Figures of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricouer
11: 00 – 11: 30
Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Department of Philosophy,
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Intersubjectivity and Intertemporality
11: 30 – 12: 30 Discussion
12: 30 - 14: 00 Lunch break
14: 00 – 14:30
Prof. Andrey Rozhdestvensky, University
of Mining Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria
Levinas and the Stranger Lady
14: 30 – 15: 00
Prof. Graham Harman, American University of
Egypt.
Bread, Tobacco, and Silk: Levinas on Individual
Substance
15:00 – 15: 30
Prof. Sylvia Mineva, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Identity, Otherness and Their Postmodern
Ethical Discourse
15: 30 – 16: 30 Discussion
16: 30 – 17: 00 Coffee Break
Round Table
17: 00 - 17: 15
Oleg Mukhutdinov , Ural State University,
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Ethics or Ontology?
17: 15 – 17: 30
Suzanne Metselaar, M. A., Dept. of Philosophy,Vrije
University ,Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Neglected Side of Logos. Levinas’ Revaluation
of Descartes
17: 30 – 17 : 45
Ákos Krassóy, Researcher, Catholic University,
Leuven ; Doctoral Student at ELTE Budapest
Lévinas, Representation, and Art
17: 45 – 18:00
Ivelina Ivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Todor Christov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Naked Life of the Otherness
17: 45 Discussion
28 of October
10: 00 – 10: 30
Prof. Denise Egéa-Kuehne, College of Education, Louisiana State University, USA
Levinas's "Idea of a Possibility”
10: 30 – 11: 00
Prof. Ivan Kolev, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University, Bulgaria
About Possibility of Existential Metaphysics
11: 00 – 11: 30
Prof. Lyubomir Christov, University of Plovdiv and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Face as a Reference Topos
11: 30 – 12: 30 Discussion
12: 30 - 14: 00 Lunch break
14: 00 – 14:30
Dr. Vasiliki Tsakiri , Postdoctoral fellow at University of Patras, Greece.
The Persecuted Other: Levinas Perception of
Kierkegaard
14: 30 – 15: 00
Prof. Krasimir Delchev, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Some Questions to Levinas
15:00 – 15: 30
Prof. Angelos Mouzakitis, University of Crete and
Hellenic Open University.
Beyond the Realm of Death: From Dasein to
Infinity
15: 30 – 16: 30 Discussion
16: 30 – 17: 00 Coffee Break
Round Table
17: 00 - 17: 15
Prof. Ivailo Lazarov, Varna Open University, Bulgaria
Is the Hyperbola of Exteriority Acceptable from the
Point of View of Phenomenology?
17: 15 – 17: 30
Dr. Sarah Allen, Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University, Leuven.
Being or Otherwise than Being? Heidegger, Levinas, and the God of Metaphysics
17: 30 – 17 : 45
Dr. Philip Lindholm, University of Oxford, UK
At Wits End: Levinas on Incarnation and Embodiment
17: 45 – 18:00
Dr. Ernst Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. The Quest for Justice versus the Rights of the Other?
18:00 – 18:15
Dr. Will Buckingham, Stafford shire University, UK
Otherwise than Levinas: Crossing Over From
Transcendence to Traversal
18:15 – 19:00 Discussion
20: 00 Closing dinner for the participants: Celebration of Levinas’ Centennial