Current doctoral research on Kierkegaard
The purpose of this PhD Day is to bring together young PhD students interested in the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. The project is based on the observation that young Kierkegaard scholars are present and motivated, but scattered across French universities and lonely in their academic research. By proposing a day of research and meetings between young scholars, we hope to exchange our respective positions on the author's work and create a common space for reflection on Kierkegaard. This event will be an opportunity to take stock of the new French research on Kierkegaard and contribute to its renewal. This PhD day will focus on the questions specific to Kierkegaard's thought. Questions of an existential nature. They raise the question of the relationship between the individual and the different spheres of life, and they are interested in how the individual can participate in these spheres without leading to despair. For Kierkegaard, despair is the inability to become oneself, in other words, it is the disease of the mind that proves to the individual that he or she does not relate authentically to themselves. This question is more precisely an ethical-existential question, because to be free from despair, to be cured of it, is an ethical task, a daily struggle, a decision for oneself and for others; but it is also a religious question, because it leads one to transform oneself in faith and become a Christian. But the 'how' of this commitment, which echoes the 'how' in the structure of Kierkegaard's work, is not self-evident.
The PhD work we will present explores some of the existential affective tones of this commitment that characterize the dialectical movement of the subject's becoming: anxiety, silence and risk, for example, which reveal the fragility and suffering, but also the intelligence, of the individual on this first-person journey. Our work aims to emphasize that the constitution of the subject does not take place in the abstraction of solitude, but in a world where the subject enters into inter-individual and institutional relations and where he or she is constantly confronted with otherness - that of others and that of God. We will look specifically at the way in which the individual externalizes himself or herself in love and expresses himself or herself in language, thus working, successfully or unsuccessfully, to reveal his or her secret interior. These reflections will also be the occasion for a renewed dialog with certain traditional authors (Augustine, Hegel) and with the Kierkegaardian legacy (Levinas, Derrida, Chrétien, Adorno); finally, they will be the occasion for a parallel reflection on the method and logic of the Kierkegaardian work. In a few words, one question will guide our PhD day: What is the status of young Kierkegaardian research in France and how does it fit into the field of French and international Kierkegaardian research?
Organizers: Armande Delage, Cassandre Caballero Speakers (confirmed): Jérôme Bord (University of Strasbourg), Cassandre Caballero (University of Picardie Jules Verne and University of Copenhagen), Armande Delage (Sorbonne University), Jeanne Delamarre (Sorbonne University), Oliver Norman (University of Poitiers).
Chairs (confirmed) : Emeline Durand (University of Dijon), Pierre-Alban Gutkin Guinfolleau (ICP).
Program
9:30 am: Welcome and introduction
Introduction to the first part by Chair: Pierre-Alban Gutkin-Guinfolleau
10.00-11.00: Oliver Norman (University of Poitiers): From pseudonymy to cardiognosia: the literature of secrecy in Kierkegaard, Derrida and Chrétien.
11.00-12.00: Cassandre Caballero (Université de Picardie Jules Verne and University of Copenhagen): Kierkegaardian Adorno or the murder of the father.
12.00-13.30: lunch
Introduction to the second part by moderator: Emeline Durand
13.30-14.30: Jeanne Delamarre (Sorbonne University): From one anxiety to another. From aesthetic anxiety to religious anxiety.
14.30-15.30: Jérôme Bord (University of Strasbourg): "The world really does not hate evil": Kierkegaard and the critique of prudence.
15.30-16.30: Armande Delage (Sorbonne University): Interpreting divine things: a Kierkegaardian hermeneutics.
Location: face-to-face + Zoom link coming later.
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Partners: Sorbonne University (contact: Armande Delage), Université de Picardie Jules Verne-CURAPP-ESS (contact: Cassandre Caballero), University of Copenhagen (contact: Cassandre Caballero and René Rosfort), The French Institute in Denmark.
