Michaelmas 2018-19
Dr Michael Oliver (convenor)
Mondays, 2.00-3.30 pm, Gibson Seminar Room 1
This is the core seminar in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms for all students taking the MSt or MPhil in Modern Theology. Each week, all participants will be expected to read the text(s) carefully (including supplementary reading) and contribute verbally in a seminar-style discussion. In Michaelmas term, the text/figure will be introduced by a member of the faculty and will then be open to discussion by the group. In Hilary term, each student will choose a week to begin the seminar with a brief presentation, which will be followed by a facilitated discussion by a member of the faculty. The texts for the seminar are listed below; lists of (optional) secondary reading will be distributed a week in advance of each session.
Week 1, October 8
Methods and Styles in Modern Philosophy and Theology
Dr Michael Oliver
Week 2, October 15
Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Week 3, October 22
G. W. F. Hegel, ‘Preface’ and ‘Introduction’ to The Phenomenology of Spirit and Part I of The Philosophy of Religion (Lectures of 1827)
Professor Joel Rasmussen
Week 4, October 29
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
Week 5, November 5
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
Professor Joel Rasmussen
Week 6, November 12
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, ‘Introduction’ (§1-8) and ‘The Onto-theological Constitution of Metaphysics’ (in idem., Identity and Difference, tr. J. Stambaugh)
Dr Michael Oliver
Week 7, November 22 (NOTE: MEETING ON THURSDAY)
Paul Ricoeur: ‘The Hermeneutics of Revelation’ and ‘The Hermeneutics of Testimony’ in Oneself as Another
Week 8, November 26
Jacques Derrida, “How to Avoid Speaking: Denials” (in Derrida and Negative Theology, ed. Coward and Foshay) and “Sauf le nom” (in On the Name, trans. Wood et al.)
Dr Michael Oliver
