Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers

Stockholm May 14-16

A workshop Organised by Södertörn University College

in cooperation with The Royal University College of Fine Art in Stockholm and philsophy.se

 

Preliminary program:

Wednesday May 14, Södertörn University College, ”Styrelserummet”

 

15.00-18.00

Givenness: Intersubjectivity and Solitude

Lazlo Tengelyi: On the Border of Phenomenology and Theology: Marion and Henry

Rosa Maria Lupo: God – Love –Revelation: God as saturatedphenomenon in Jean Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of Givenness

Jonna Bornemark: Edith Stein and Max Scheler as precursors to the ”turn to religion” within phenomenology

Morny Joy: The Gift, the Other and Intersubjectivity

 

19.00

Reception

 

Thursday May 15, Royal University College of Fine Arts, Hus 28

 

10.00-13.00

Criticism and Self-criticism

Christian Sommer: Through theology to phenomenology? Bultmann and Heidegger

Maurius Timmann Mjaaland: The Weakness of Weakness

Jayne Svennungson: Transcending Tradition – Towards a Messianic Critique of Religion

Jad Hatem: Suhrawardî as a phenomenologist

 

14.00-17.00

Transcendence and Immanence

Arne Grøn: Beyond? Horizon, Immanence and Transcendence

Ludger Hagerdorn: Auto-Immunity or Transcendence – A Phenomenological Re-consideration of Religion with Jacques Derrida and Jan Patocka

Sigridur Thorgeirsdottier: Transcendence in Nietzsche's philosophical anthropology

Fredrika Spindler: A Philosophy of Immanence

 

Friday May 16, Royal University College of Fine Arts, Hus 28

10.00-13.00

 

Meditation and the Saying of Totality

Ola Sigurdsson: Prayer, Subjectivity and Politics

Björn Thorsteinsson: The future of emancipation

Hans Ruin: Languages of Grace – Meditation, Prayer and Time

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback: On immensity