Discipline of Philosophy Speakers Series

Discipline of Philosophy presents “New Interpretations of Heidegger” by Aengus Daly (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) and Matt Barnard (Manchester Metropolitan University) 

Time:              Tuesday, 3rd March @ 1:00-2:30 pm (Lunch will be provided) 

Location:        THB G-011 

Description: Aengus Daly and Matt Barnard both published independently two exciting monographs on the work of Martin Heidegger. Matt Barnard: Heidegger’s Conception of Freedom: Beyond Cause and Effect (Palgrave, 2024) and Aengus Daly: Heidegger's Metaphysics: The Overturning of 'Being and Time' (Bloomsbury, 2024). We are delighted to host both of them to discuss these important books. In the aftermath of his incomplete, work Being and Time, Heidegger strove to address the themes of that work culminating in the famous turning (Kehre) in his thinking. This ‘in-between’ period of Heidegger’s journey, a time in the later 1920s/early 1930s when Germany and the world at large was in the grip of crisis, is underexplored, making all the more welcome the work of these two scholars who explore Heidegger’s engagement in the phenomenology of the mythical world, temporality and human existence, freedom beyond causality, the human experience of existential guilt and mortality all in the context of grappling with the legacy of Western metaphysics. We are looking forward to an engaging discussion.