Religion & Philosophy in Germany, 1918-1933

Date: November 2, 2017 -November 3, 2017
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Carpenter Conference Room, Rubenstein Library 249

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Wednesday, Nov. 1 

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. – Participant Dinner at Vin Rouge

 Thursday, Nov. 2nd

8:45 – 9:30 a.m. – Coffee

9:30 a.m. – Welcome & Introductory Remarks

10:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Prof. Philip Buckley (McGill), "Phenomenology as Soteriology: Husserl and the call for "Erneuerung" in the 1920’s"

11:45 – 1:15 – Lunch (catered at Carpenter Boardroom)

1:30 – 3:00 – Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke), "‘Noch ist uns das Dasein verzaubert’: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger"

3:00-3:30 – Coffee & Refreshments

3:30 – 5:00 – Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago), "Gnostic Anxieties in Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought"

Friday, Nov. 3rd

8:30, – 9:00 a.m. – Coffee & Refreshments

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. – Dr Judith Wolfe (St Andrews), "The inheritance of eschatological thought in inter-war philosophy"

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. – Coffee & Refreshments

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. – Prof. Cyril O’Regan (Notre Dame), "Hans Urs von Balthasar: Apocalypse and the Eclipse of Nietzsche"

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch (catered at Carpenter Boardroom)

1:30 – 3:00 – Prof. John Betz (Notre Dame), "The analogia entis as a Catholic panacea?  Erich Przywara’s interventions in the philosophy and theology of the 1920s"

3:00 – 3:30 – Coffee & Refreshments

3:30 – 5:00 – Prof. Holger Zaborowski (Vallendar), "Liturgy, Antinomy, and Freedom: Guardini’s Phenomenology of Religion"

5:00 – 7:00 Break

7:00 – 9:00 – Participant Dinner at Washington Duke Inn

 

 

The organizers of the symposium gratefully acknowledge sponsorship by the following units: Arts & Sciences Research Council; Germanic Language & Literatures; Franklin Humanities Institute; Office of Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies; Council for European Studies and Religions & Public Life; Program in Political Theory; Division of Theology – Duke Divinity School; Program in Literature & Theory; Department of History; Department of Religion