Next Philosophy Seminar

Wednesday 11 October, 3-5pm Dalhousie 2F13 All welcome. ‘Lesson of Darkness: Phenomenology and Lyotard’s Aesthetics’ Ashley Woodward (Dundee) This presentation will examine the relationship of Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics to phenomenology, especially the works of Mikel Dufrenne and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It will argue that this comparison allows a greater understanding of Lyotard’s late aesthetic writings, which …