Radical Experiences: Faith and Reason in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein

If you would like to participate, please register by sending an email to Antonio Cimino ([email protected]) before November 25.

Program

Wednesday, November 27

Venue: Thomas van Aquinostraat 8, room TvA 8.00.14

9:00 – 9:15 opening

9:15 – 10:30 Keynote. Ben Vedder, Religion within the Limits of Hermeneutics

11:00 – 11:45 Chris Bremmers, Being interested in Being. Anxiety and Boredom, Desire and Awe

Venue: Erasmus Building, room: E.2.16

14:00 – 14:45 Tobias Keiling, Dionysius, Apollo, and other Göttliche. Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Experience of the Divine

14:45 – 15:30 Evert van der Zweerde, Liberal Democracy and the End of Metaphysics ‐ Who is the Baby and Which is the Bathwater?

16:00 – 16:45 Sandro Gorgone, A Foreign God. Heidegger’s Overcoming of Metaphysics and Philoxenia

16:45 – 17:30 Vincent Blok, A Question of Faith. Heidegger’s Reflection on the Origin of Questioning in Philosophy

Thursday, November 28

Venue: Gymnasion Building, room GN 2

9:30 – 11:00 Keynote. Andrew Benjamin, Nietzsche, Epicurus and Precipitate Tranquility

11:30 – 12:15 Carlotta Santini, “Inwiefern auch wir noch fromm sind”. The Status of Truth and the Irreducibility of Faith in Friedrich Nietzsche’s work

12:15 – 13:00 Fausto Fraisopi, Mysticism as Boundary of Holism and Aphasia of the Transcendental in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Venue: Erasmus Building, room E.2.50

14:30 – 15:15 Chantal Bax, “A way of living, or a way of assessing life.” Faith, Reason, and the Continuity in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy

15:15 – 16:00 Claudio Tarditi, Is Ontology the Last Form of Idolatry? The Heideggerian Ambiguity about Religious Experience

16:30 – 17:15 Joel Backström, Metaphysics as Moral Symptomatology. Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and the “Symptom” Jesus

17:15 – 18:00 Jussi Backman, A Religious End of Metaphysics? Heidegger, Meillassoux, and the Question of Fideism

18:00 – 18:15 closing words