West Coast Heidegger Workshop

The West Coast Heidegger Workshop focuses on historical studies of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe and studies of Heidegger’s GA in the History of Philosophy.

We hold an annual blind-reviewed, in-person conference around the middle of January each year, and we are planning invited monthly online papers during the Fall and Spring semesters.

The Call for Papers for the next annual in-person conference will be posted here and disseminated via email – contact rex.gilliland@gmail.com to be added to our mailing list.

THREE AXES OF INTEREST

1. We are interested in the scholarship of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, in the historical study of Heidegger’s thought as it develops and evolves. This, necessarily, also includes the study of Heidegger’s sources, both referenced and unreferenced, but in a manner that emphasizes a historico-philological dimension.

2. We are interested in Heidegger’s history/histories of philosophy as they are articulated throughout his writings. We are interested in investigating, critically but constructively, both the overlaps and confirmations, as well as the discontinuities and differences among the different presentations throughout the HGA.

3. We are equally interested in Heidegger’s own place in the history of Philosophy, in relation to Heidegger’s period contexts, but also in the systematic relationship between Heidegger’s thought and that of other figures, movements and periods, insofar as this is studied from a developmental perspective, shedding light on Heidegger’s thought.

In contrast to topical work, we are interested in cultivating studies that have a strong genetic, textual anchoring that avoids anachronism.

SAMPLE PAPER TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

Variations in the History of Truth from GA45 to N II to GA69 etc.

The development of the notion of phenomenon from SZ to the Four Seminars.

Expository and philological work on recent GA volumes from GA65- GA90.

The evolution of MH’s Anaximander readings, e.g. 1932-1946, or GA35 to GA78.

The dialectic of ontology and metaphysics, of Befindlichkeit and Stimmung, or of Rede and Sprache throughout the GA.

The evolution of the Artwork-essay, from first draft to Afterword.

Heidegger’s auto-critiques, from GA65 to GA82.

The determination of Modernity in N II and in GA76.

Titles of Papers from Previous Workshops

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

Rex Gilliland, Southern Connecticut State University, rex.gilliland@gmail.com

Ian Alexander Moore, Loyola Marymount University, ian.moore@lmu.edu

Hakhamanesh Zangeneh, California State University, Stanislaus, hzangeneh@csustan.edu

Submissions Manager: Susanne Schilz, California State University, Stanislaus sschilz@csustan.edu