Rethymno, Crete 9-11 December 2003
Oxford 15 November 2003 28 February 2004 19 June 2004
Perugia 13-14 May 2004
Rethymno, Crete 9-11 December 2003
Oxford 15 November 2003 28 February 2004 19 June 2004
Perugia 13-14 May 2004
Recent Publications
Freedom and, more specifically, the role of the Other in the quest for authentic living, is at the heart of three of the pieces in the cur- rent issue. Karsten Harries asks the questions: ‘What does it mean to live responsibly?’ and ‘What would it mean to exist authentically?’ It has often been pointed out that Sartre was more adept, both in his theoretical and his fictional works, in flushing out examples of inauthentic living than in providing positive examples.
The Centre very much appreciates the donation of Mrs Margaret M. Jeffrey of English translations by her late husband, Professor William Jeffrey, Jr, of works written by Durkheim and his group, especially Mauss and Fauconnet. Professor Jeffrey was professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati for many years. It was while he was studying law at the University of Chicago that he came under the influence of teachers in sociology.
Notes on contributors
Notes on contributors
We begin this issue with a Symposium entitled “Sartre and Terror.” It is introduced by Kenneth Anderson and it opens with a translation by Elizabeth Bowman of Sartre’s commentary on the 1972 Munich massacre. She has prefaced it with a summary of events. Next Ronald Aronson focuses on the events of 9/11 and distinguishes between permissible and destructive violence.
Following is a minimally edited transcript of a session on Sartre and terrorism from the North American Sartre Society meeting at Loyola University in New Orleans, March 2002. I organized the session as a response to the events of September 11, 2001. Initially at a loss to comprehend what occurred, I decided that this was exactly the kind of event that called for philosophical consideration. The attacks stunned me both in terms of the numbers of dead (I remember that morning hearing estimates of a possible 20,000 dead, now deter- mined to be just over 2,700) and perhaps even more because of the means used and the symbolic and cultural significance of the targets.
Oxford 22 February 2003
Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 June 2003
Texts by Emile Durkheim 2003 L’évaluation en comité. Textes et rapports de souscription au Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques 1903-1917, édités et présentés par Stéphane Baciocchi et Jennifer Mergy, Oxford and New York: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books. (Its dating-enumeration according to Lukes is 2003a.)