Symposia Phaenomenologica Asiatica
Master Class in Phenomenology for Asian Scholars 2010
Theme: Transcendance and Sensibility from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty
18 July- 5 Aug 2010
Lecturers:
Part 1: Prof. Dermot Moran, University College Dublin, Ireland
Part 2: Prof. Mauro Carbone, University of Lyon III, France
The Right to Philosophy: The Traces of the International College of Philosophy (A Documentary film in French with English subtitle)
Date: 19 June 2010
Project: 1500 - 1630
Round Table: 1640 - 1730
Venue: LT1, Teaching Complex at Western Campus (TCW), CUHK
Discussants:
Dennitza Gabrakova (City University of Hong Kong),
Kwok-ying Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong),
Ping-keung Lui (Hong Kong Society of Phenomenology),
Yuji Nishiyama (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Co-organized by:
The Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology,
Archive for Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy,
Hong Kong Society of Phenomenology
Admission free; no registration required
For inquiry, please contact phenomenology@live.hk
Official website: http://rightphilo.blog112.fc2.com/
A Phenomenological Diagnosis of Modernity: Jan Patocka's Idea of Supercivilization and its Present Significance
Talk given by Professor Johann P. Arnason, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne
Date: 24 May 2010
Time: 1700-1900
Venue: Room 125, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Abstract:
The Czech phenomenologist Jan Patocka (1907-1977) wrote the essay "Supercivilization and It’s Internal Conflict” in Prague in the mid-1950s which remained unknown for several decades. It is both an interpretation of modernity, which Patocka tried to understand in civilizational terms, and a critical analysis of Communism, which appears as a product of a radical current within the modern “supercivilization”, opposed to what Patocka saw as a moderate version, prevalent in the West. The text is an outstanding example of a phenomenological diagnosis of the times, and a crucial phase in the development of Patocka’s philosophy of history.
The Speaker:
Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His main research interests are in historical sociology and the
comparative analysis of civilizations. Publications include "Civilizations in Dispute", 2003, and "Axial Civilizations and World History" (edited, with S.N. Eisenstadt and Bjorn Wittrock), 2005. He has also written essays on phenomenology and social theory, with particular emphasis on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jan Patocka.
Co-organized by:
Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology,
Hong Kong Society of Phenomenology