[csaa-forum] Postgraduate Seminars: Kiarina Kordela on "Spinoza's Authority"

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The Writing and Society Research Centre and the  Philosophy Research Initiative presents the following postgraduate seminars. Everyone is welcome.

Kiarina Kordela, "Spinoza's Authority"

DATE: Tuesday, 7 August
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
TIME: 2:00 - 4:00pm
PLACE: Room 3.G.27
University of Western Sydney, Bankstown
Everyone welcome.

"Spinoza's Authority," A. Kiarina Kordela

In these two seminars we shall focus on excerpts from Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise in order to approach his conceptualization of political power as a system that negotiates authority and freedom. We shall see how this intertwining of authority and freedom both anticipates more contemporary conceptualizations of political power, such as (Gramsci's) hegemony and (Foucault's) biopolitics, and critiques them.

REQUIRED READING:
Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface and chapters IV, XIV, XVI, and XX.
Please read the text before the first seminar.
The readings can be made available upon request.

BIO: A. Kiarina Kordela is professor of German and director of the Critical Theory Program at Macalester College, and a visiting professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY Press, 2007), Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2013), and co-editor, with Dimitris Vardoulakis, of Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011). She has published on a wide range of topics in several collections and journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Political Theory, Parallax, Rethinking Marxism, and Umbr(a). Her "Biopolitics: Transhistorically and Historically" is forthcoming in Differences.
For more information regarding Professor Kordela's visit to UWS please see: http://uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/members/visiting_professors



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School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney
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