Although it may not be this Forums thing to post info, I thought this was
relevant to recent discussions. See Spoon Announcements below.
By the way Eve, yes this sounds like a good idea. Some references would be
useful too. Where/Who the words originated from. Texts that some of the
philosophies can be found in etc. How about a web page, with relevant links.
Taylor
>Eve Andree
>
>P.S. I am in the (very slow) process of compiling an index of frequently
>used words on this forum. It is interesting to note the patterns. At some
>time in the hopefully near future I will post this. Any suggestions anyone?
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>From: Reg Lilly <rlilly@scott.skidmore.edu>
>Subject: Postmodern Conference
>
>CONFERENCE ON AFTER POSTMODERNISM
> November 14-16, 1997
>
> The Conference poses a specific question: If we absorb
>postmodernism, if we recognize the variety and ungroundedness of
>grounds, but do not want to stop in arbitrariness, relativism, or
>aporia, WHAT COMES AFTER POSTMODERNISM?
>
> What postmodernism teaches is not all new. Heraclitus said,
>"You cannot step into the same river twice" and his student added, "not
>even once, since there is no same river." The ancient Eristics showed
>the unreliability of logic alone. The current relativism is
>historicist, which may be its worst version because it also claims that
>we are locked into the one approach that is dominant in our time.
>
> Postmodernism brought much that we wish to retain. It brought
>play and humor, no small contribution. It made visible the economic,
>political, gender, and colonizing hegemony inherent in western
>"objectivity" and "universality." Postmodernism puts the recognition of
>the ungrounded variety of assumptions first. Although always
>recognized, the problem appeared only at the periphery. Or it might be
>tucked in, half-hidden, for the benefit of those who already recognize
>it.
>
> For example, after a long series of quite wild distinctions:
>
> The Stranger: We must always make our distinctions so that they cut
>between the bones.
> The youngster: But Stranger, how can we tell whether we cut between
>the bones, or not?
> The Stranger: That is a question we will take up another time.
>(Plato, Statesman, 262)
>
>It is a postmodern contribution to begin from this awareness and to make
>it obvious to everyone, rather than keeping it as a subtle
>knowing-better reserved for the few.
>
> But what is the effect? For the most part it results in
>arbitrariness, stoppage, an inability to think further. Overcoming this
>effect is the topic of our Conference. We want to think further, to
>begin a discourse that moves on, after postmodernism.
>______________________________________________________________________________
>
>Papers will not be presented. The Conference will consist entirely of
>discussion. Everyone will be invited to participate most of the time.
>
>Papers are available to the public through
>http://www.focusing.org/postmod.htm Those who register can participate
>in the E-mail discussion now in progress. If you cannot come but wish to
>receive results from the Conference, let us know.
>Registration:
>
> Eugene T. Gendlin and Richard A. Shweder
> 5730 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA
> gend@midway.uchicago.edu
>
>Sponsored by: The Ward M. and Mariam C. Canaday Educational Trust
>
>
> On Saturday the Conference will divide into Sections, to develop
>several ines of an "After Postmodernism" discourse, issues on which we
>need not agree, but have developed various specific points or steps --
>paths of thinking after postmodernism.
>
>Sections:
>Is there a distinct role for logic, and for a kind of scientific
>objectivity that would not be naive?
>
>How can conceptual systems function in relation to more-than-conceptual
>intricacy?
>
>In what sense do we move beyond the utterly different meanings that each
>culture gives even to the most universal words such as "body" and
>"person?"
>
>Is there a path from Wittgenstein? He could let a word acquire many new
>meanings. Although one cannot represent language, no concept or
>metaphysics controls new uses of words in situations.
>
>Can we speak-from practice-and-theory and implicitly intricate bodily
>experiencing?
>
>Can we speak-from ourselves without subjectivity/objectivity? (Example:
>"If someone has a pain in the hand . . . one does not comfort the hand,
>but the sufferer." Wittgenstein, P I 286)
>
>Can a new phenomenology speak-from intricacy, rather than attempting
>"description?"
>
>Can we articulate the implicit political and ethical stand of using the
>critique of assumptions to free people, rather than to silence them?
>___________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>PAPERS OR DISCUSSION BY THE FOLLOWING ARE NOW AVAILABLE:
>
>Anthropology
>Stephen F. Gudeman, Minneapolis
>Katherine Ewing, Durham, NC
>Paul Rabinow, Berkeley
>Buck Schieffelin, London
>Richard A. Shweder, Chicago
>
>Communications & Design
>Richard Buchanan, Pittsburgh
>Richard L. Lanigan, Carbondale
>
>Comparative Literature
>Marike Finlay de Monchy, Montreal
>Darko Sunvin, Montreal
>
>Political Science
>Tracy Strong, La Jolla
>
>Psychology
>Donald Polkinghorne, Los Angeles
>Frederick Wertz, New York
>
>Sociology
>Charles F. Lawrence, Seattle
>Kenneth Liberman, Eugene
>
>Philosophy
>Susan Bordo, Lexington
>Lawrence Cahoone, Boston
>Robert Crease, Stony Brook
>Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv
>Hubert L. Dreyfus, Berkeley
>Ralph D. Ellis, Atlanta
>Eugene T. Gendlin, Chicago
>Lawrence J. Hatab, Norfolk
>Patrick Heelan, Washington
>Victor Kestenbaum, Boston
>Lenore Langsdorf, Carbondale
>David Michael Levin, Evanston
>Marcia Moen, Hartford
>Norberto Abreu E Silva Neto, Sao Paulo
>Ulrich Pothast, Hannover
>Zdravko Radman, Oetwil am See
>Thomas Rentsch, Dresden
>Steven Rosen, New York
>Robert C. Scharff, Durham, NH
>Hans J. Schneider, Berlin
>Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Yachats
>William H. Sterner, Chicago
>
>EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
>William J. Earle, Assoc. Editor
>Philosophical Forum
>
>George Psathas, Editor
>Human Studies
>
>Robert C. Scharff, Editor
>Man and World
>
>Hans J. Schneider, Editor
>Deutsche Zeitschrift fr Philosophie
>
>Frederick Wertz, Editor
>Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
>
>
>Mary Hendricks Ph.D.
>Focusing Institute
>
>
>
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