Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

Back to the Things Themselves! is an attempt to temporarily liberate ourselves from textual exegesis, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through rigorous phenomenological description. Husserl’s call to return zu der Sachen selbst has only been intermittently heeded by subsequent generations of phenomenologists, the majority of which have generally focused on contributing to and elaborating on the enormous critical apparatus issuing from the founding texts of the movement. What Back to the Things Themselves! proposes is to build on the important contributions of such scholarship by using them to guide our reflections on phenomena in the lifeworld.

The inaugural Back to the Things Themselves! panel in 2007 began to explore the phenomenon of the “in-between.” Based on suggestions from last year’s participants, next year we will invite further exploration of the in-between in order to deepen and expand our initial conversation. Yet we will also take this conversation in a new direction: “edges.” We invite the submission of descriptions of both or either of these phenomena to Back to the Things Themselves! 2008.

Click on the link above for the full Call for Papers.