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Call for Papers Theme: Levinas on Socio-political Responsibility and Beyond Type: International Conference on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas Location: Manila (Philippines) Date: 13.–15.7.2017 Deadline: 15.5.2017 __________________________________________________ French-Jewish-Lithuanian philosopher Emmanuel Levinas became a celebrated thinker for his sincere philosophical attention to the Other, which puts into question the primacy of metaphysics for its propensity to culminate in an egological and totalizing Being as the Self. With his conviction of Ethics as First Philosophy, Levinas provoked the need for the Self to meet the Face of the Other and be ushered towards the ethical order where human responsibility eventually turns into social commitment and in what Levinas calls ‘substitution’. As such, Levinas’ radical ethics opened a spectrum of concepts connected to generosity, the good and peace and social order, to name a few. This makes him and his thoughts a clarion mouthpiece of the world’s most humanitarian concerns. However, while Levinas formulated his philosophy as a reaction to the violence of wars in, (and ironically) the dehumanizing ontologies of twentieth century, the scenario and plights remain the same even up to this date. Humanity and philosophy still continue to struggle against egocentrism and clamour for the defense of life, justice and peace. Inspired by the promising dimensions in the human responsibility and sociality discourse, the University of Santo Tomas is delighted to announce the upcoming International Conference on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, with the theme “On Socio-Political Responsibility and Beyond” from the 13th to the 15th of July 2017 in Manila, at the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines. The main highlight of this conference are the three plenary lectures by Roger Burggraeve, Professor Emeritus from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, a renowned scholar on Levinas: a. Beyond the Self towards the Other as ‘unto-God’: The Path of Transascendence b. The Other as the Infinite and the Good in Me: The Path of Transdescendence c. The Socio-Political and Beyond: For-the-Other as the Modality of the Infinite in Society Part of the three-day conference are parallel sessions, and so we would like to call for participants to present papers on topics in one of the following threads: - Critique of Western Philosophy and the Pre-eminence of Ethics - Levinas’ Language of Escape and the Path to the Other - Human Responsibility in the Economy of Being - Provocations for Social Justice and Peace - The Connection between the Good and the Beautiful (Levinas in/and the Arts) - Spirituality and the Other (philosophy of religion) - Levinas, the Feminine and Feminism - Levinas, Environmental Philosophy and Animal Ethics - Levinas, Globalization and Technology - Levinas and Judaeo-Christian Philosophy - Levinas vis-à-vis other philosophers and philosophies Papers from other disciplines that may engage with the conference theme are also welcome. We also accept panel proposals that cover or propose a specific theme. The Scientific Committee shall only screen abstracts of 200-300 words, prepared as follows: I. Title II. Author/Researcher III. Institutional Affiliation IV. Email Address V. Contact Number VI. Abstract VII. Keywords (3-5) The template for the abstract may be downloaded in this link: https://goo.gl/4QnNKl. The document must be saved as a PDF file, with the filename: <SURNAME>Levinas2017.pdf (example: GARCIALevinas2017.pdf); then sent as an attachment to <levinas2017....@gmail.com>. On the subject line, indicate <SURNAME>: Abstract (example: GARCIA: Abstract). Please take note of the following important dates: 15 May 2017: Deadline for the submission of Abstracts 22 May 2017: Notification (through email) of the acceptance of papers (foreign participants would receive the notification earlier) 03 July 2017: Deadline for the submission of full paper 13-15 July 2017: Conference Proper For more details, you may send us an email at: levinas.ust2...@gmail.com or philosophy...@ust.edu.ph Helpful Links: UST Department of Philosophy: http://philosophy.ust.edu.ph/levinas-2017.html and https://facebook.com/ustphilodept Mailing List (registration): https://goo.gl/forms/40YleH2JmBTtCeyv2 Pre-Conference Workshop (registration): https://goo.gl/forms/2PKKNQbAWkf71KiM2 PDF version of the Conference Poster and the CFP with the conference fees is available through this link: https://goo.gl/oxLmCH Conference Convenor: Dr. Leovino Ma. Garcia Dr. Leovino Garcia obtained his PhD from Universite Catholique de Louvain and he is currently teaching in both the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Santo Tomas. Conference website: http://philosophy.ust.edu.ph/levinas2017/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
