Writing the Austrian Traditions
A Conference on the Relations between Austrian Philosophy and Literature

May 12-14
Woodsworth College, Room 126
University of Toronto

 

Friday Afternoon, May 12, 2000

3.00 p.m.      Introductory Address

3.30 p.m.      Rudolf  Haller   (University of Graz)

      Wittgenstein: Poetry and Literature

4.30 p.m.      Wendelin  Schmidt-Dengler   (University of Vienna)

      Austria’s Plato

5.30 p.m.      Reception

7.00 p.m.      Franz Josef  Czernin

      Reading from his work (German)

 

Saturday Morning, May 13, 2000

Coffee and Croissants

10:00 a.m.      Wolfgang  Huemer   (University of Toronto)

      Phenomenological Reduction and Aesthetic

      Experience: Husserl Meets Hofmannsthal

10:45 a.m.                  John  Gibson   (University of Toronto)

      Wittgenstein and Literary Skepticism

11:30 a.m.                     Coffee Break

11:45 a.m.      Barry  Smith   (SUNY at Buffalo)

      Meinong and the Phantasy-Machine

12:45 p.m.      Lunch Break

 

Saturday Afternoon, May 13, 2000

2:30 p.m.      Dale  Jacquette   (Pennsylvania State University)

      David Lewis on Meinongian Logic of Fiction

3:30 p.m.      Newton  Garver   (SUNY at Buffalo)

      “Mir fällt zu Hitler nichts ein.” — “Wovon man nicht         

      sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.”: The           

      ‘Silence’ of Kraus and Wittgenstein

4:30 p.m.      Coffee Break

4:45 p.m.         Mark E.  Blum   (University of Louisville)

      The ‘Soft Law’ of Austrian Historical Logic since

      the Enlightenment in the Arts and Sciences

5:30 p.m.         Mark  Grzeskowiak   (University of Toronto)

      A ‘Symposium’ as Architext? Hermann Broch’s     

      Schlafwandler Trilogie and Discourse of Art and

      Philosophy in the Modern Novel

8:30 p.m.        Dinner

 

Sunday Morning, May 14, 2000

Coffee and Croissants

 10:00 a.m.         Heather Jill  Scott   (University of Chicago)

      Oedipus Endangered: The Rise of Atrean Incest in  

      Musil’s Mann ohne Eigenschaften

10:45 a.m.         Randall  Dipert   (SUNY at Buffalo)

      Mathematics in Musil

11:45 a.m.      Coffee Break

12:00 p.m.      Fred  Wilson   (University of Toronto)

      The Vienna Circle and Freud