Call for Papers
Coleridge, Friendship
and the Origins of Modernity
A two-day conference hosted by the Centre for Research in
Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick
13, 14 February 2001
Guest speakers: Tillotama Rajan, Paul Hamilton, Anthony Harding
Recent philosophical interest in friendship and community has
highlighted the important though ambiguous role played by
relationships in Western thought. More particularly, among such
diverse thinkers as Cavell, Blanchot and Derrida, the rethinking of
friendship has enabled a reassessment of the writing, theory, and
self-understanding that characterise modernity.
In the light of such concern, this two-day conference aims to
consider the case of Coleridge and his political journal The Friend
(1809-10, 3rd ed. 1818). Attention will be directed not only to
Coleridge’s own explicit reflections on friendship and community,
but also to the ways in which friendship, and its absence,
structures his theoretical writing and determines his self-appointed
role as a communicator and mentor in a post-Enlightenment age.
Some of the topics the conference seeks to address in relation to
Coleridge are:
Language, intelligibility and the ‘communication of truth’
Remembrance, reminiscences, memorials, eulogies
Law, Principle and Method in the private sphere
Conversations, scenes of instruction
Private selves and public service
Power in / of the community
Female friendship
Collaboration vs. self-reliance
Perfectionism
Friendship and religion
The conference organisers are: Michael John Kooy (Department
of English and Comparative Literary Studies), Andrew Benjamin,
Martin Warner (Department of Philosophy), and Peter Larkin
(University Library). For inquiries please contact Michael John
Kooy at the above department, University of Warwick, Coventry,
CV4 7AL (tel. +44 024 765 73091) or by email at
Michael.Kooy@warwick.ac.uk.
Please send or email an abstract of 200 words for a 20-minute
paper to: Heather Jones, Centre for Research in Philosophy and
Literature, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL (Tel: +44
024 762 2582). Email: H.A.Jones@warwick.ac.uk
The deadline for abstracts is 30 November 2000.
For more information about the Centre for Research in Philosophy
and Literature and related departments, please visit the University
of Warwick homepage at: http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/
Dr Michael John Kooy
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
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