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9.22日(周三)晚7:00英国科学院院士Marian HOBSON教授学术讲演

讲演题目:激进的启蒙运动
时间:9月22日(周三)晚7:00至9:00
地点:哲学系一楼会议室
欢迎同学和老师参加。
讲演人:Marian HOBSON教授
语言:英文(会上发讲演稿的摘要)

附:Marian HOBSON教授简历
Professor Marian HOBSON CBE, FBA
Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor of French in the University of London, Queen Mary College, since 1992.
Before that, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, (Newton's College;  She was the first woman Fellow).

主要成果:
"The Object of Art: the theory of illusion in eighteenth-century France", Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
This book discusses the transition from a rococo aesthetic to a romantic one, basing its arguments on the notion of "illusion".
"Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines", London, Routledge, 1998.
This book follows Derrida's work in a more or less chronological fashion, but discusses a problem that had not so far been treated: it is well known that Derrida develops a powerful and highly personal writing style; but his arguments are also highly constructed. How is this  done, and how do his writing style, and construction of philosophical arguments, fit together?
coeditor of:
"Reappraisals of Rousseau", Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1980.
"Rousseau: studies in honour of RA Leigh", Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1993.
author of many articles on Diderot, Rousseau, and on Jacques Derrida.
translator in particular of Derrida's dissertation:
"The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy", Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2003.
This was written in 1954-5, but not published until 1990. It is extremely important in understanding the man who  is probably the most important French philosopher living.

讲演内容摘要
"Radical Enlightenment".

This is the title of 2 important books on the history of philosophy in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth century, one by Margaret Jacob in 1981, one by Jonathan Israel in 2001. It is at present (2003-2004) the centre of a great deal of research in Western Europe into eighteenth century thought.
The lecture is really a kind of sociological history of the hidden part of the movement of eighteenth century thought that can be called "The Enlightenment". It follows suggestions in the books to discuss elements in Enlightenment thought that were kept largely underground, i.e. not published, or only published secretly, and in particular, that were talked about rather than spread by the written word. Clearly, this raises considerable methodological problems (how does one know what people thought if they were hiding it?), to which as mentioned in my email of 22 April, students often have a good deal  to contribute.
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