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5th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy
Ideal Time: from Zeno to Nietzsche and Beyond
April 3-4, 1998
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois
Keynote Address by Carol Jacobs, SUNY/Buffalo
Leibniz proposes that the number of possible books is finite, and that a
minutely detailed history of the future is to be found among them.
Borges insists that the total library that contains these books holds an
accurate catalogue including every possible book, innumerable false
catalogues, the true story of your death, the translation of every book
into al languages, and the interpolation of every book in all books. To
this proposition, Nietzsche had already added the question of the final
legibility of any one of these volumes and had described any possibility
of negotiating the corridors of the library as one of interminable
repetition and return. From Zeno's paradoxes to Kant's form of
intuition, from Aristotle's categories to Heidegger's being in the
world, from Descartes' cogito to Holderlin's caesura, from Hegel's
system to Einstein's special relativity, from Plato's unforgetting to
the message of Kafka's emperor, the problem of ideal time constitutes a
formidable vector in philosophical inquiry. These figures and events
might well be indexed in a history of temporality and its ideal, but
they mark one of many such possible tomes. An impossible complement to
Borges' never-written Biography of the Infinite, this conference will
attempt to contribute fragmentary chapters to a genealogy of ideal time.
Papers should be limited to 3,000 words, and include an abstract of 150
words or less. Send submissions to:
Graduate Student Conference Director
Department of Philosophy
DePaul University
1150 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
email contact: dprice-AT-condor.depaul.edu
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Leibniz proposes that the number of possible books is finite, and that a minutely detailed history of the future is to be found among them. Borges insists that the total library that contains these books holds an accurate catalogue including every possible book, innumerable false catalogues, the true story of your death, the translation of every book into al languages, and the interpolation of every book in all books. To this proposition, Nietzsche had already added the question of the final legibility of any one of these volumes and had described any possibility of negotiating the corridors of the library as one of interminable repetition and return. >From Zeno's paradoxes to Kant's form of intuition, from Aristotle's categories to Heidegger's being in the world, from Descartes' cogito to Holderlin's caesura, from Hegel's system to Einstein's special relativity, from Plato's unforgetting to the message of Kafka's emperor, the problem of ideal time constitutes a formidable vector in philosophical inquiry. These figures and events might well be indexed in a history of temporality and its ideal, but they mark one of many such possible tomes. An impossible complement to Borges' never-written Biography of the Infinite, this conference will attempt to contribute fragmentary chapters to a genealogy of ideal time.
Papers should be limited to 3,000 words, and include an abstract of 150 words or less. Send submissions to:
Graduate Student Conference Director
Department of Philosophy
DePaul University
1150 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
email contact: dprice-AT-condor.depaul.edu
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