BU Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy: Optimism, Pessimism, and Meaning in Life

Note: this is a pre-read conference.  To register and receive copies of the papers, send an email to [email protected]


Schedule:

Friday, April 28

10:00-11:15am
Mor Segev (USF)
"Schopenhauer on Optimism and Immortality"

11:30am-12:45pm 
Sandra Shapshay (CUNY)
"Schopenhauer's Ethic of Compassion:
Pantheistic, not Pessimistic"

12:45-2:45pm
break for lunch

2:45-4:00pm
Samantha Matherne (Harvard) 
"From Aesthetic Pessimism to Aesthetic Optimism
in the Long Nineteenth Century"

4:15-5:30pm
Elijah Millgram (Utah)
"The Life as Artwork and the Paradoxes of Narcissism"


Saturday, April 29

10:00-11:15am
Paul Loeb (Puget Sound)
"A Nietzschean Critique of Wittgenstein's 
Philosophical Quietism"

11:30am-12:45pm
Paul Katsafanas (BU)
"Identities of Resentment"

12:45-2:45pm
break for lunch

2:45-4:00pm
Katherine Withy (Georgetown)
"On the Meaning of Life, and
Tolstoy's Questions about It"

4:15-5:30pm
Desmond Hogan (Princeton)
"The Meaning of Life and the Critical Philosophy"