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October 27 and 28, 2006
International Conference at the Department of Philosophy, Sofia University, Bulgaria

“A Century with Levinas – Levinas’ Metaphysics : Right of the Other”

Organizing Committee:

  • Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Ph.D.
  • Prof. Plamen Makariev, Ph. D.
  • Ass. Prof. Ivan Kolev

The goal of this Conference is to discuss the opportunities open by Levinas’ Metaphysics. After centuries of modern reflective philosophy concentrated on the Self regarded as a subject and its relation to the world, objects, society, etc., Levinas’ call to rethink this philosophy of subject’ power and to take into consideration right of the Other, forms the great challenge of Postmodernity. According to Levinas, first philosophy is ethics rather than ontology, epistemology, logic, etc.

Program

October 27

 
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 Ricoeur
 
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
 
17:00 – 17:30 Prof. Robert Manning, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Quincy University, Quincy, IL, USA.
Getting Right to the Point of Levinas’s Politics.
 
17:30 – 18:00 Prof. Nadia Nedjalkova, French Language School and Cultural Studies Department, Sofia University
Jewish Apocalyptic and the Principle of the Otherness according to Levinas.
 
18:00 – 18:30 Prof. Raicho Pozharliev, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University.
Phenomenology of the Nourishment.
 
18:30 – 18:45 Discussion
 

Round Table

 
19:00 – 19:15 Suzanne Metselaar, M. A., Dept. of Philosophy, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Neglected Side of Logos. Levinas’ Revaluation of Descartes
 
19:15 – 19:30 Ákos Krassóy, Researcher, Catholic University, Leuven ; Doctoral Student at ELTE Budapest
Levinas, Representation, and Art
 
19:30 – 19:45 Ivelina Ivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Todor Christov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Naked Life of the Otherness
 
19:45 Discussion
 

October 28

 
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 Ass. 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 – 19:00 Discussion
 
19:15 – 19:45 Closing lecture:
Prof. Luc Anckaert,
, Chair of Jewish Philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain.
The Problem of the “Nichts”(Rozenzweig) and of the “Il y a”(Levinas) as Condition of Ethical Freedom.
 
20:00 Closing dinner for the participants: Celebration of Levinas’ Centennial