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Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Conversion and Martyrdom<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Warren Montag<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When</b>: Tuesday 30 July 2013, 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Where</b>: Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Building, State Library of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Booking essential:
</span><a href="http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/sydney_seminar_professor_warren_montag.html">www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/sydney_seminar_professor_warren_montag.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">According to Spinoza, societies form through a mechanism of imitation. People involuntarily mimic the emotions of the others. This sharing of feelings means that the individual is always related to others. Much of Part IV of the
<i>Ethics</i> concerns how the imitation of hatred produces self-hatred. This stages an encounter with two important forms of self-hatred: conversion and martyrdom.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of books on Spinoza and Althusser, the most recent of which is<i> Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual
War</i> (Duke University Press). He is also the editor of <i>Décalages: a Journal of Althusser Studies</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Sydney Seminar is organized by Philosophy@UWS (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/philosophyuws">https://www.facebook.com/philosophyuws</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- - - - - - - - -<br>
Dimitris Vardoulakis<br>
University of Western Sydney<br>
School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Bankstown Campus, 7.G.10<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith, NSW 2751<br>
AUSTRALIA<br>
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tel: +61 2 9772 6808</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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