Event overview
Howard Caygill will address the topic of resistance by speaking on 'Resisting the New Monopoly of Violence'. He has published extensively on Walter Benjamin, Kant, Levinas and, in 2013, he published 'On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance'. This text begins with the militaristic doctrine of Clausewitz and the evolution of a new model of guerrilla warfare to resist the forces of Napoleonic France, going on to elucidate and critique the contributions of seminal resistant thinkers from Marx and Nietzsche to Mao, Gandhi, Sartre and Fanon to identify continuities of resistance and rebellion from the Paris Commune to the Greenham Women's Peace Camp.
Howard Caygill is Professor Of Modern European Philosophy at the CRMEP in Kingston University. He is currently writing a book on Kafka.
InC aims to foster an interdisciplinary interest and approach to Continental Philosophy, enhancing the study of the subject through engagement with a diverse range of research directions and initiatives, to allow the creation of a lasting platform of discussion in London and internationally. InC acts as a point of reference between different practitioners and research frameworks in order to establish a common and cooperative space of dialogue devoted to Continental Philosophy.
The group is formed of a diverse membership from across Goldsmiths’ Academic Departments, with events orgaised by representatives from Art, Cultural Studies, History, and Visual Cultures Departments. In the last three years the group has become the primary meeting point for philosophical discussion at Goldsmiths, holding more than 100 seminars, lectures, screenings and conversations.
Guest speakers have included Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Ernesto Laclau, Bernard Stiegler, Gilbert Adair and Tom McCarthy. In the past year InC has established external working partnerships with the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Verso Books.
This is the third event in an Autumn series of lectures and screenings on the theme of resistance. It will be followed in the 10th December by a lecture from Paul O'Kane on 'The End(s) of Resistance'.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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