\n| The School of Modern Languages and Cultures cordially invites you to the following talk:<\/p>\n The Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation: Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality?<\/strong><\/p>\nProf. William Franke<\/strong>, Vanderbilt University<\/p>\nDate: 7 November 2011
\nTime: 10:30 am
\nVenue: Council Chamber, Room 809, Meng Wah Complex, HKU<\/p>\n Synopsis
\nThis paper proposes an epistemology of the humanities which places knowledge into a framework of ‘revelation’ in both a literary and a theological sense. Classics of literature such as the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Augustine, and Dante present whole visions of human life and the cosmos in relation to a transcendent and divine order. Such totalizing aesthetic visions have been severely censured in recent criticism, particularly in the wake of Walter Benjamin, yet a universal vision, open without restriction to others and even to a transcendent Other, can also be discerned in principle in these founding texts of Western civilization. This vision connects with a new sense of universality based on ‘revelation’ of singularity that is not rationally masterable or categorically definable, in a critical perspective deriving from Franz Rosenzweig and currently being pursued by the likes of Eric Santner, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. This perspective provides a basis for extending general humanities education from founding texts of Western civilization into global dialogue with their counterparts in other, especially Eastern cultures.<\/p>\n Biographical Note
\nWilliam Franke is professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and has been Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology at the University of Salzburg. His books include Dante\u2019s Interpretive Journey (1996); On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature and the Arts (2007); Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language (2009). Soon to appear are his A Philosophy of the Unsayable (forthcoming in 2012) and Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign.’<\/p>\n Poster: http:\/\/www.hku.hk\/europe\/news\/images\/20111107.pdf<\/a><\/p>\nPlease feel free to contact Ms Christy Ho at chhristy@hku.hk<\/a>\u00a0 for any enquiries.<\/p>\nAll are welcome.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European Studies Lecture, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong News List | << Previous News | Next News >> Talk: The Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation: Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality? Date: 7 November 2011 The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | |
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