Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 6, TT26)
Tuesday 2 June, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Ryle Room (20.339), Schwarzman Centre
Yi-Ping Ong (John Hopkins): 'On the Inauthenticity of the Public: Kierkegaard and Heidegger'
Abstract: The concept of the public in Kierkegaard, which Heidegger inherits, is deeply linked to concerns over the derealization and depersonalization of the age. For these thinkers, contemporary subjectivity threatens the conditions for inwardness and meaningful communication. This problem is often framed as an essentially individual one. Understanding how it bears on the possibility of social acts of mind, however, yields insights into the search for authenticity in our present age.
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