Nicolas de Warren (Wellesley College) "The Merciful Arrangement: Sleep, Dreams, and Wakefulness in Husserlian Phenomenology" February 25, 2010

"The Merciful Arrangement: Sleep, Dreams, and Wakefulness in Husserlian Phenomenology"

ABSTRACT: I will discuss dreams and sleep from a broadly phenomenological viewpoint, with a focus on questions of self-awareness, temporality, nightmares and the imagination.

Nicolas de Warren (Wellesley College)



Nicolas de Warren is the author of Husserl and the Promise of Time (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and numerous articles, including: "La crise de la raison et l’énigme du monde,” in: Esquisses de la Krisis: Husserl et la science, le monde, l’ego (Vrin, 2008), "Off the Beaten Path: The Artworks of Andrew Goldsworthy,” Environmental Philosophy (2007) and "The Apocalypse of Hope: Political Violence in the Writings of Sartre and Fanon,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2006). He teaches courses in phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, social and political philosophy, early modern philosophy, aesthetics, and German Idealism. He is currently writing a book on the imagination and a philosophical study of Augustine's Confessions. He is also editor of the book series Contributions to Phenomenology.
Location:

6 E. 16th St., Rm. 906/913, New Wolff Conference Room

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

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