Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Phaedrus
May 25th and 26th 2009 (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Sydneshaugen 12-13, room 210)
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Monday May 25th
09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and Opening
09.15 – 10.15 Hayden Ausland: Poetry, Fiction, and Rhetoric in the Phaedrus
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.30 Cynthia Freeland: Myths of the Soul in the Phaedrus: Seeing, Knowing, Nourishing
11.30 – 12.30 Hallvard Fossheim: Soul and Myth in the Phaedrus
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Charles Armstrong: Why Phaedrus? Plato in Woolf´s Novel Jacob´s Room
14.30 - 15.30 Kristin Sampson, Scenery and Song in the Phaedrus
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday May 26th
09.15 – 10.30 Paul Woodruff: Plato's Inverted Theater: Displacing the Wisdom of the Poets
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.45 Jens Kristian Larsen: The Desire for logos and the logos of Desire
11.45 – 12-45 Øyvind Rabbås: Speaking Words of Wisdom: Authority and estrangement in written (and spoken?) discourse
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.45 Knut Ågotnes: "Maybe I am a Typhon?" Socrates´ loss of secure self- knowledge - from the Apology via Charmides to Phaedrus
14.45 – 15.45 Erlend Breidal: Heavenly Places (topoi) and human Placelessness (atopia): the problem of Philosophy as Picture-making
Alle er hjertelig velkommen!
Påmelding innen 11. mai 2009 til kirsten.bang@fof.uib.no
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