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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">University if Western Sydney Philosophy Seminars 2012</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">James Phillips <br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Jean-Luc Nancy’s Fraternal First Philosophy of the ‘With’: Rethinking Communion
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">DATE/TIME: Wednesday, 26 September, 2-4pm</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.55</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F3A67"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical writings present an extended meditation on the meaning and possibility
of community. Revisiting ontology’s question of the relationship between the many ways of Being, Nancy defines community by the communication/equivocation of the ways of Being rather than a common substance. Nancy names this community of Being “with” and
resists the traditional pull in ontology, from Aristotle to Heidegger, to uncover the unity of analogy of the different ways of Being. The different ways of Being are with one another, and it is “with” that preserves the differences in their relations. Nancy’s
community of “with” is a community without a unifying point of indifference, a fraternal community of family resemblances without a father. First philosophy here is immediately social, and Nancy offers the one critique of both ontology and sociology. Heidegger’s
fundamental ontology and Freud’s speculations on the originary community of the primal horde both conceal and reveal what, for Nancy, is the community without a shared substance. It is, however, ontology and Nancy’s critical relationship to it that informs
his conception of community: objections that Nancy’s position is apolitical and ethically ambiguous take insufficient notice of the different task that he has set himself.<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> James Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His research interests lie in the areas of aesthetics, political philosophy, phenomenology and the philosophical dimensions of literary texts. He is the author
of <i>Heidegger’s Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry</i> (Stanford UP, 2005) and
<i>The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant</i> (Stanford UP, 2007). He has also edited a book on cinema.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> For the entire 2012 program of the Philosophy seminar series at UWS see:
<u><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2012"><span style="color:#0023E3">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2012</span></a></u> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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