For some years now,  Reiner Schürmann's written thought has been enjoying a late but continually growing, if still scattered reception. The aim of this gathering is to bring individual research and varied reflection into a productive interchange. Proceeding from diverse works in English, French, and German, which have been published by DIAPHANES since 2008, an initial inventory of interpretations can be attempted and—with the perspective of a series of lectures planned for the coming years—a discussion developed in the context of the history of philosophy.

 

The colloquium is public. It will be held in English, German and French language from 9 am to 6 pm.

 

 

Lectures and discussions

 

Hans Scheulen (Bremen)
 Reiner Schürmanns Lesart der Gebürtigkeit und Sterblichkeit –
Das Aufbrechen der normativen Dimension

 

Francesco Guercio (New York)
 “Neither to govern nor to be governed:
anarchy, capture, form-of-life and potentia destituens“
Deposing the metaphysics of the pròs hén relation through
Reiner Schürmann and Giorgio Agamben

 

Nicolas Schneider (Bruxelles/London)
Investigating broken hegemonies:
Schürmann’s topological strategy of peremption

 

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem (Paris)
Les transcendantaux phénoménologiques : présence-absence, natalité-mortalité,
appropriation-expropriation, législation-transgression.

 

Malte Fabian Rauch (Berlin)
Schürmann and Hegel on Kant as a Paradigm:
Two Opposed Genealogies of the Apperceptive Subject

 

Shannee Marks & Peer Wolfram (London)
“The Unapproachable Reiner Schürmann –
A Phantasmatic Philosopher: Film without Why”

(1941–93) was a German philosopher. He was born in Amsterdam and lived in Germany, Israel, and France before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s, where he was professor and director of the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of three books on philosophy: Heidegger on Being and Acting, Wandering Joy, and Broken Hegemonies. Origins is his only work of fiction. He never wrote nor published in his native German.