Annual Public Lecture in Philosophy on March 8, 2024
27 February 2024
The context for Morin‘s most recent book is defined by the challenge the speculative realist movement addressed to post-Kantian Continental thought in general, and phenomenology in particular. For the speculative realist movement, phenomenology is a form of correlationism, a mode of philosophizing that is concerned with the way things appear to us rather than with the way they are in themselves. In the words of Meillassoux, phenomenology cannot reach the “great outdoors” or the “absolute outside”. In this talk, Morin will use the speculative realist challenge to show the strengths (and also the limits) of the phenomenological method with a particular focus on Merleau-Ponty’s early work.
A reception with refreshments to follow.