Jewish Thinkers of Otherness

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A Contemporary Genealogy of Phenomenology

Series Double-Overview

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Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Buber, Arendt, Levinas, and Derrida

This series will examine four distinct ways whereby the Other becomes a decisive philosophical event: as presence, as plurality, as ethical asymmetry, and as structural difference.

Each session focuses on one thinker and one conceptual pathway, presented by a brave member of our community—currently experiencing performance anxiety about presenting to a group of critical Others. But they have no need to worry, because Jedi Master Professor Steven Taubeneck will be on hand to answer the hard hard questions and prevent us from cheating, lying, fabricating, speculating, and bluffing.

This generic placeholder description will be updated once our courageous presenters send in their outlines. For now, mark your calendars, join the discussion, and prepare for a series that explores how twentieth-century thought reconceived relation, responsibility, and alterity at the deepest and most disquieting levels.

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JTO Episode List

E01. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Introduction and Overview
E02. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Martin Buber
E03. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Hanna Arendt — Part I
E04. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Hanna Arendt — Part II
E05. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Emmanuel Levinas — Part I
E06. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Emmanuel Levinas — Part II
E07. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Jacques Derrida — Part I
E08. Jewish Thinkers of Otherness ⟩ Jacques Derrida — Part II </aside>

A Compressed Genealogy of Phenomenology ⟩ Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Mach, Frege, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty

During our last JTO event, someone remarked that —

Hey, all the people we’re covering here are officially phenomenologists, which is a shame since no one in here knows what the hell “phenomenologist,” “phenomenological,” and “phenomenology” actually mean. I bet there are fewer than three people in here who know the Secrets of Phenomenology Proper (PP), and they’re obviously not sharing. If I ran this group, I’d sure as hell …

— it was decided by vote that we ought to do a brief recap episode to explain what is it that Phenomenology Proper is really all about.

That brief recap has expanded organically as we’ve learned that, in order to provide an understanding that penetrates and illuminates the meaning of PP totally, we will have to slog our way through the official set of official PP influencers.

Here they are:

Ye List of Official PP Influencers

Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Herbart, Bolzano, Lotze, Brentano, Stumpf, Mach, Dilthey, Natorp, Frege, Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger, Stein, Ingarden, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Schutz, Gurwitsch, Henry, Derrida, Marion, and Zahavi.

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But who wants to cover all that? So we’re really only going to cover the unavoidable and core members:

Role	Figures
Pre-PP Sources	Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Hume, Kant
19th-Cent Problem Focusers	Brentano, Bolzano, Frege
Founder	Husserl
20-Cent Transformers	Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida

Many new things are being discovered daily through great pain by our presenters, and then delivered to you by the failproof method of nootropically boosted Easy Trance Induction during Meetup time. This is how we do it.

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CGP Episode List

E09. A Compressed Genealogy of Phenomenology — Part I
E10. A Compressed Genealogy of Phenomenology — Part II
E11. A Compressed Genealogy of Phenomenology — Part III [CURRENT]
E12. A Compressed Genealogy of Phenomenology — Part IV </aside>

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