11 AM: [9] The Future of European Thought (or analytic vs. continental philosophy) Host: Danielle SandsDate of event: Saturday, September 20 thTime: 11:00Venue: Hat Speakers: Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Babette Babich 17:30 PM: [50] The Word and the World Host: Joanna KavennaDate of event: Saturday, September 20 thTime: 17:30Venue: International Speakers: Hilary Lawson, Babette Babich,Continue reading “HowTheLightGetsIn London 20 Sept 2025”
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Feyerabend’s “Science as Art” and Aloïs Riegl: On Progress in Science and Art
Babich, Progress in Science and Art Borderless Philosophy 8 (2025): 1-31. 1. Introduction: Progress and Decline, Evolution and the Primitive The idea of “decadent art” is well-known from its use against cultural elements often associated with Jewish artists during the Nazi era. But, as Paul Feyerabend (1924- 1994) points out, the idea of Verfall wasContinue reading “Feyerabend’s “Science as Art” and Aloïs Riegl: On Progress in Science and Art”
Ivan Illich’s ‘Cultivation of Conspiracy’: How to be a Saint
Abstract My theme is ‘con-spiratio’ and Ivan Illich’s lecture on the ingredients or prerequisites of establishing a community or polity. In addition, I explore questions of culture in Illich’s conspiracy lecture along with the related question of grace, Illich’s ‘Umsonstigkeit.’ In addition to Illich on the parable of the good Samaritan and his meditation onContinue reading “Ivan Illich’s ‘Cultivation of Conspiracy’: How to be a Saint”
Reaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J. by Jim McDermott
Hermeneutics, Love, and Education: Reading Gadamer, Nietzsche, and Illich
Being an excerpt of a text currently available behind a paywall Go get yourself a culture, only then will you find out what philosophy can and will do. — Nietzsche Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) wrote about prejudice and the importance of critique, that is: being oneself exposed, personally, to challenge. For Gadamer this explicitly included anContinue reading “Hermeneutics, Love, and Education: Reading Gadamer, Nietzsche, and Illich”
Thinking Apocalyptic Thinking: The ‘Post-Apocalyptic’
In press: “Günther Anders’ Apocalypse Blindness and the Post-Apocalyptic.” In: Thomas Meier and Michael Peters, eds., Civilizational Collapse and Post-Apocalyptic Survival. Oxford/Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024. 89-115. In press. Scheduled release: 23 December 2024.
Anti-Conviviality
Ivan Illich as Nature Activist Given the controversial ‘Extinction Rebellion,’ it might seem reasonable to suppose that Ivan Illich might have supported this movement, given his criticism of the education industry along with the missionary industry, today that would include nonprofit and humanitarian NGOs, along with criticizing the medical industry, the water (treatment and recycling)Continue reading “Anti-Conviviality”
A Presentation On the Life and Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche with Dr. Babette Babich (Fordham)
29 April 2024 Link to video: https://youtu.be/1ubXgB9J0oM?feature=shared
Robot Sex, Roombas — and Alan Rickman
Originally posted some years ago (ca. 2017) on de Gruyter ‘Conversations’ but needing updates owing to fairly fatal, reading wise, and very literal: deadlinks … nobody likes deadlinks… Babette Babich | 17.08.2017. Updated 14 February 2024 Robot lovers, given current technology, are not particularly good at being robots, much less at ‘being’ Alan Rickman. NowContinue reading “Robot Sex, Roombas — and Alan Rickman”
Reiner Schürmann’s and Heidegger’s ‘Unknown God’
MATTHEW KRUGER-ROSSJuly 7, 2023 at 10:10 pm Dear Friends & Members of the Heidegger Circle: We are pleased to announce our upcoming summer seasonal gathering with the theme of Reiner Schürmann on Martin Heidegger. The gathering will be on Wednesday, July 19 from 12:00-1:30PM EST on Zoom. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9052560171?pwd=cXQ3UWo2YkE2dnJsU1o5cHFWdnUyZz09 Our invited speakers are Babette Babich,Continue reading “Reiner Schürmann’s and Heidegger’s ‘Unknown God’”
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