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Hybrid

Date & time:

19 Feb 2025, 17:30 – 19:15

Preludes to philosophical thinking: (1) Loafing with Clara-Clara, (2) Whitehead, Trigonometry

Gordon C.F. Bearn brings the opening preludes of a work-in-progress.

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Preludes to philosophical thinking: (1) Loafing with Clara-Clara, (2) Whitehead, Trigonometry

Gordon C.F. Bearn

Stewardson Professor of Philosophy

Lehigh University

His publications have been stimulated by Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein, Derrida's pursuit of the consequences of iterability, and Deleuze's intimation of an aesthetics of existence. He has written a book on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, Waking to Wonder (1998), and a book inspired by reading Deleuze, Life Drawing (2014). He is now beginning a book whose idea was the energy in every smaller thing he has written for some time: Inklings and Algebra: Preludes to Philosophical Thinking. 

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Yuxin Su

stnvysu@ucl.ac.uk

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