Kant Symposium: Kant and Literature

12/3/2004

3335 Dwinelle Hall

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Kant's death, the Department of German at UC-Berkeley will host an afternoon symposium. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines on campus, this conference will examine the nexus between Kant's philosophy and literature.

The event will take place on Friday, December 3rd, 2004 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. in 3335 Dwinelle Hall. Questions? Please contact Christina Gerhardt, at gerhardt@socrates.berkeley.edu

Kant Symposium: Kant and Literature

1:00 - 1:45  Pheng Cheah (Dept of Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley)
                   "An original Understanding as cause of the world":
                   Nature as Techne in Kant's 3rd Critique".

1:45 - 2:30  Robert Kaufman (Dept of English, Stanford University)
                   Kant's Theses on Feuerbach, or Marx Ado About Nothing 
                   and Poetry

2:30 - 2:45  BREAK

2:45 - 3:30  Hinrich Seeba (Dept of German, UC-Berkeley)
                  "Wahrhaft Wahrheit": Kleist & the "So-called Kantian 
                   Philosophy"

3:30 - 4:15  Jeff Fort (Dept of Comp. Lit, UC-Berkeley)
                   "I cannot do otherwise": Sublimity and Abjection
                   in Kafka's "A Hunger Artist"

4:15 - 5:00  Karen Feldman (Dept of Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley)
                   "The Poet and the Orator: On Kant, Style and Practical
                   Reason"