Religion & Postmodernism
3: Confessions September 27-29,
2001
The Conference will be held as
scheduled, despite the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
The
third international colloquium of philosophers and theologians will address the relevance
of Augustine’s Confessions at the onset of the new millennium.
Featuring:
a dialogue
with Jacques Derrida on Augustine and “Circumfession”
major
Augustinian scholars on the Confessions today,
leading
continentalist thinkers discussing readings of the Confessions by Martin
Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur,Jean-François Lyotard and Hannah Arendt.
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Sponsored
by: The Josephine C. Connelly Chair of Theology
The David R. Cook Chair of Philosophy
Conference
Speakers:
Jacques
Derrida
with
Geoffrey Bennington Emory University
" 'Time -- for the truth': Augustine, Derrida,
Lyotard"
Philippe Capelle Institut Catholique de Paris "Heidegger: Reader of Augustine"
Elizabeth Clark Duke University
"On Not Retracting the Unconfessed"
Richard Kearney Boston College and University College, Dublin "Time, Evil and Narrative Identity: Ricoeur's
Reading of Augustine"
Catherine Malabou
Universite de Paris, Nanterre "The form of an I: Derrida's Circonfession"
James J. O'Donnell University of Pennsylvania "What Augustine Did Not Confess"
Mark Vessey University of British Columbia
Canada Research Chair in Literature / Christianity and Culture
"What is literature? On a confession of Jacques
Derrida"
Hent de Vries Universiteit van Amsterdam
"Instances: temporal modes in Augustine,
Lyotard, and Derrida"
