Selfhood, Authenticity and Method in Heidegger’s Being and Time Event

Although Heidegger’s Being and Time is often cited as one of the most important philosophical works of the last century, its second division has largely been ignored, especially in commentary by philosophers from the analytic tradition. But, inspired by a growing recognition of the philosophical and theological influences that shape Heidegger’s thought, important readers have recently begun to re-examine this difficult second division and the suspicion is growing that there is something of real philosophical substance in its concerns; in particular, its discussion of ‘ authenticity ’ is coming to be seen as having significant implications for how we ought to understand, for example, intentionality and autonomy. In 2011, the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Essex will host a series of seminars which will extend these fascinating inroads that are beginning to be made into the difficult hinterland of Heidegger’s magnum opus.

9th Feb 2011
Venue: Lecture Room 1, Christ Church, Oxford University
1:00pm-2:30pm Taylor Carman (Barnard, Columbia), ‘Heidegger on the Necessity and Finality of Death’
2:45pm-4:15pm Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston), ‘Authenticity and the Absence of Death’
4:30pm-6:00pm Denis McManus (Southampton), 'Being-towards-death and One’s Own Best Judgment'

23rd March 2011
Venue: Room 1177, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
1:00pm-2:30pm Steven Galt Crowell (Rice), ‘Being Answerable: Reason-Giving as Authentic Discourse’
2:45pm-4:15pm Peter Poellner (Warwick), ‘Sartre and Heidegger on Authenticity and Intersubjectivity’
4:30pm-6:00pm Stephen Mulhall (Oxford), ‘Nothingness and Phenomenology: Heidegger and Sartre’

18th May 2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
1:00pm-2:30pm Charles Guignon (South Florida), ‘Authenticity, Phenomenology, and the Question of Being’
3:00pm-4:30pm Béatrice Han-Pile (Essex), ‘Heidegger on Freedom in Being and Time’
5:00pm-6:30pm Hubert Dreyfus (Berkeley), ‘Authenticity and the Phenomenology of Action’

16th Nov 2011
Location: University of Essex, Colchester Campus, Room 4S.6.28
1:00pm-2:30pm Clare Carlisle (Kings College, London), ‘Kierkegaard, Heidegger and the Question of Being’
2:45pm-4:15pm George Pattison (Oxford), ‘Guilt, Death and Nothingness in Luther, Kierkegaard and Being and Time’
4:30pm-6:00pm Mark Wrathall (California, Riverside), ‘Demanding Authenticity of Ourselves’

Supported by the British Academy