A reminder of the following event Professor Leonard Lawlor Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University Public lecture "A New Possibility of Life: The Experience of Powerlessness as the Solution to the Problem of the Worst² Chaired by Prof. Paul Patton, Philosophy UNSW Webster Building 327 University of New South Wales 4.00-5.15 Tuesday 9 December Prof Leonard Lawlor specializes in 19thC and 20thC Continental Philosophy. His recent books include The Implications of Immanence: Toward a New Concept of Life (Fordham UP, 2006) and This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (Columbia UP 2007) ABSTRACT: This essay is part of an attempt to determine a new mode of existence, an ethics, for humans. It consists in reversing the idea of the worst, which is unconditional ³impassage²: ³don¹t let anyone in; don¹t let anyone out!² As a reversal, the new mode of existence turns us into friends of passage, a people who love the world so much that they will let everyone without exception enter and let everyone without exception exit. They say, ³Let¹s tear down all the walls and open all the doors!² The reversal comes about by focusing on the transcendental experience of powerlessness.
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