Bernard Flynn
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Empire State College
State University of New York
225 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
ph. 212-647-7862
email: bernard.flynn@esc.edu

Education

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Lectures

“Janicaud Between Two Angels,” International Philosophy Symposium, Perugia, Italy. At the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts.

“The Body Politics, Only a Metaphor?,” International Philosophy Symposium, Perugia, Italy.

“The Temptation of Origins: Benjamin and Merleau-Ponty.” Executive Committee of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia.

“Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophical Position on Skepticism.” University of Sussex Philosophy Society, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

“Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics of the Visual World.” Cooper Union School for the Arts, New York City, New York..

“The Political Philosophy of Lefort.” Faculty Research Seminar, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

“Why Lefort Now?” Forum for European Philosophy, University of London, School for Advanced Studies, London, United Kingdom.

“Psychoanalytic Aspects of Lefort's Concept of Totalitarianism.” Annual Meeting of the Association of Psychoanalysis and Culture, Columbia University, New York City.

Discussant of a paper entitled “Truth, Plurality and Politics” presented by Prof. Anne Maria Roviello (Free University of Brussels), at the International Symposium on Phenomenology, Urbino, Italy.

“The Effacement of the Image in the Political Thought of Lefort.” Annual Meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California.

“Machiavelli as Phenomenologist of the Political Life World.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.

“Lefort's Critique of Neo-Liberalism.” Conference on the Work of Lefort (in conjunction with Lefort's being awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought from the City of Bremen) Bremen, Germany.

“The Concept of Metaphysics After Nietzsche.” Monthly, Meeting of the Filosfisk Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophical Position of Skepicism.” Filosofiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.

“Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophical Position of Skepticism.” Vierailuluento Filosofian Laitoksen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Merleau-Ponty et la Position Philosophique du Scepticisme.” Conference on Merleau-Ponty et les Figures du Sensible, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Respondent to Free University of Brussels Professor Marc Richir's

Societe et au-dela de la Societe? Billy Budd et le Grand Inquisiteur.” Conference on Hannah Arendt: Elucidation Philosophique de la Condition Politique, University of Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

“Benjamin and Arendt: On Language and Narration.” Internationl Conference on Benjamin et la Representation Francaise de la Modernite at the University of Freiburg, sponsored by College International de Philosophie of Paris and the Frankreich-Zentrum of the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

“Between Ethics and Politics in the Work of Lefort .” Lectures in Philosophy Series at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium.

“Lefort: Democracy and Modernity.” Conference on Phenomenology and Politics at the Annual Meeting of The British Society for Phenomenology, St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.

“Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Convergence/Divergence.” Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“Lefort on Democracy.” Invited lecture at the Insitute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

“Lefort in Context.” Conference on The Philosophy of Lefort (in conjunction with Lefort's receiving an Honorary Doctorate from at the University of Tilbourg) Tilbourg, The Netherlands.

“Lefort and the Phenomenology of the Empty Place.” Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, Massachusettts.

“Modernity and Secularization: Vatimo/ Bloomenberg.” International Philosophical Seminar, Alto Adige, Italy.

Commentary on Lefort's lecture “The Question of the Subject and Voluntary Servitude.” Symposium on Literature and Psychoanalysis, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.

“Rights and Their Bearers in the Political Philosophy of Lefort.” The Benjamin Cardoza Law School's Speakers Series on Law and Humanism, New Yor City, N.Y.

“The Places of the Work of Art in Arendt's Philosophy.” Thirtieth Annual Meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, Tennessee.

“On Merleau-Ponty's Texts and Dialogues.” Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado .

Truth in Painting/ ‘Eye and Mind’.” The International Philosophical Seminar, Alto Adige, Italy.

“Foucault: Three Forms of Genealogy.” Group for French Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, City University of New York, New York City, New York.

“Style and Essence: Nietzsche/ Merleau-Ponty.” Eleventh Annual Meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

“Foucault and the Body Politic.” Conference in Homage to Michel Foucault, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.

“Toward an Ontology of the Political: Arendt/ Merleau-Ponty/ Lefort.”Monthly Colloquium on Social and Political Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, New School For Social Research, New York City, New York.

“Political Theory and the Metaphysics of Presence.” Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri.

“Reading Habermas Reading Freud.” Colloqium of the Graduate Faculty of Philosophy, The New School For Social Research, New York City, New York.

“The Question of an Ontology of the Political.” Seventh Annual Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York.

“Sexuality/ Knowedge/ Power in the Thought of Foucault.” Semi-Annual Philosophy Colloquim, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

“Methodology in the Thought of Foucault.” Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Comparative Study of Civilizations, Bradford College, Haverhill, Mass.

“Toward an Anti-Humanist Reading of Marxism.” Conference on Current in Contemporary Marxism, Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.

“The Structuralist Critique of Subjectivity.” Lecture at the Department of Philosophy, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

“Foucault and the Husserlian Problematic of a Transcendental Philosophy of History.” Semi-Annual Philosophy Colloquium, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York.

“Husserl's Concept of Intentionality.” Semi-Annual Philosophy Colloquium, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

“Critical Reflections on the Work of Althusser.” Faculty Discussion Group of Salmagundi Magazine, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

“Transcendental Idealism in Kant and Husserl.” Colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.