Exploring an Ethics of Immanence with Spinoza and Deleuze
What does it mean to live well and together without appeal to a transcendent source of value or universal rules? The Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy (CAREP) at King’s University College hosts four internationally recognized scholars of Spinoza or Deleuze to help explore this challenging and timely question. Please join us!
Alexandre Lefebvre, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Sydney, via Zoom on Tuesday, February 15 at 4:30 p.m.: “Care of the self and the Ethics of Immanence: the Case of Human Rights”
Care of the self and the Ethics of Immanence: the Case of Human Rights - Alexandre Lefebvre
We tend to think of human rights as an institution to protect all people everywhere from harm. In this lecture, I present a surprising alternative perspective: great thinkers and activists who see human rights as a tool to help people care for themselves. The result is an ethics of immanence, where human rights are used, first, to diagnose what makes us unhappy and unfulfilled, and second, to help fix us and lead better lives.
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Hasana Sharp, Associate Professor of Philosophy, McGill University, in person on Tuesday, March 15 at 4 p.m. (Wemple Hall Room 166 ) “Political Servitude in Spinoza."
Life in servitude, for Spinoza, is hostile to “the true virtue and life of the mind” (TP, 5.5). This talk considers how humanity, life, and freedom are normatively aligned against inhumanity, death, and servitude.
Jeffrey A. Bell, Professor of Philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana University, in person on Wednesday, March 23 at 4 PM (Wemple Hall Room 168) “Nothing Matters: Deleuze and Althusser's Critical Spinozism”.
In this talk I show that by understanding Spinoza's understanding of substance as a problem, in Deleuze's sense of that term, we can bring Deleuze and Althusser into productive conversation.