Reification and the Force of Names:
Heidegger and Adorno
Weekend Seminar and Workshop
Dec 3-Dec 5, 2010
The Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center, Higgins Lake, Roscommon
Program
Friday, Dec 3
Topic: Reification in Adorno and Heidegger
12pm
Arrival
12pm-1pm
Check in and organize rooms
1pm-2:30pm
Catch-up session: Reification in Heidegger
Texts: Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, pp. 320-328 Heidegger, The Thing; Heidegger, Building, Dwelling, Thinking, pp. 353-363; voluntary: Heidegger, What are Poets for?, pp. 108-128
2:30-2:45pm
Break
2:45-5:15pm
Session 2: Reification in Adorno
Text: Adorno, Negative Dialectics, pp.183-203; Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. 1-34 (Concept of Enlightenment)
Presenter: Ivanovic
5:30pm
Dinner
7pm
Evening session 1: Reification in Adorno’s Social Theory
Text seminar: Todd Hedrick (Michigan State University)
Texts: Adorno, Reflections on Class Society; Adorno, Society
9pm Bonfire
Saturday, Dec 4
Topic: Language in Heidegger
8:30am Breakfast
9:30am-11:45am
Session 3: Language in Heidegger
Texts: Heidegger, Language
Presenter: Schoonover
12pm
Lunch
Perhaps, hiking “on a country path”
2pm-3:30pm
Session 4: Language and names in Heidegger
Texts: Heidegger, Words; Heidegger, What is called Thinking?, part II, lecture II (pp.126-132)
3:30pm-3:45pm
Break
3:45pm-5:15pm
Session 5: Language and the political in Heidegger
Texts: Heidegger, Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry; Heidegger, The Ister, §§14-15
Presenter: Johnson
5:30pm
Dinner
7pm
Evening session 2: Language in the early Heidegger
Text seminar: David Vessey (Grand Valley State University)
Text: Heidegger, The History of the Concept of Time, pp. 261-272
9pm
Symposium
Sunday, Dec 5
Topic: Language in Adorno
8:30am
Breakfast
9:30am-11:45am
Session 6: Language in Adorno
Adorno, Negative Dialectics, pp. 52-61; 108-117, 161-163, 373-376; Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, excursus on Odysseus (role of language and names); Adorno, Theses On the Language of the Philosopher
11:45am-12pm
Wrap up: Returning home
Heidegger, The Countrypath, Adorno, Armorbach (not available in English)
12pm
Departure
Special guests:
Todd Hedrick (Michigan State University)
David Vessey (Grand Valley State University)
Corinne Painter (Washtenaw Community College)
Christian Lotz 