INVITATION: ACU NORTH SYDNEY POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP:
We are excited to invite interested postgraduate students to partake in a special event with the renowned feminist philosopher, NAOMI SCHEMAN, who will talk about Wittgenstein and Democracy. Naomi Scheman will present a paper, which will be followed by a short interview with Talia Morag (ACU), a group discussion with the students, and a catered reception. WHEN: Friday, August 1 , 3pm-5:30pm WHERE: ACU North Sydney (details of location will be given with registration). TITLE: “How to do (radical) things with Wittgenstein: Fellow Travellers on the Rough Ground.” ABSTRACT: Wittgenstein's later work chastens philosophical temptations to seek answers to questions that arise from dis-ease with aspects of the forms of life in which we are embedded. The puzzles we are tempted to solve cannot be dealt with by what has come (following Charles Mills) to be known as "ideal theory", appealing to grounding that transcends "what we do". Wittgenstein's urging us "back to the rough ground" is radically anti-foundationalist in calling our attention not to bedrock but rather to the ground literally and metaphorically under our feet. The implications of such attention lead to what I call "grounded radicality", grounded in engagement with the diverse specificities of the rough ground on which we (take a) stand and across which we are complexly entangled with other beings. Such engagement shifts the understanding and practice of democracy from its liberal, Enlightenment grounding in (allegedly) universal rationality to "pluriversal" grappling with irreducible diversity and complex entanglements. NAOMI SCHEMAN is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota in the U.S.A., currently living in Boston. She is the author of two volumes of collected papers in feminist epistemology and metaphysics: Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege, (Routledge, 1993) and Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trustworthiness (Oxford University Press, 2011). And she is the co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein (Penn State Press, 2002), Her subsequent work has continued her efforts to connect Wittgenstein's later work to issues of current social and political concern, such as prison abolition, diasporic Jewish ethics, and transgender identities. Registration by email to talia.mo...@acu.edu.au -- Dr Talia Morag Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities Australian Catholic University | North Sydney NSW 2060
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