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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Philosophy @ Western Sydney – Encountering the Author
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4F81BD">Andrew Benjamin,
<i>Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s Other Possibility</i> (SUNY, 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size:12.0pt">Respondents:</span></b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-size:12.0pt"> Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University), Jeff Malpas (UTas), Magdalena Zolkos (ACU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Andrew Benjamin calls for a notion of relationality that takes relations among people and events as primary. He shows that a relational ontology has always been at work within the history of philosophy even
though philosophy has been reluctant to affirm its presence. Such an already present status of a relational ontology is philosophy’s other possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Andrew Benjamin<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">is (Monash University, Melbourne, and Kingston University, London) is the author of several books, including
<i>Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy</i> and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of
<i>Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger</i>, also published by SUNY Press.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Place:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">54</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
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