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Max schaefer

Background:

    Max came to philosophy in his youth, primarily through the efforts of Plato, St. Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.  His interests include, but are not limited to, phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Marion, Chretien, etc), medieval philosophy, German idealism, post-modernism, and philosophy of religion.  Over the course of his BA and MA degrees, he situated himself within phenomenology, beginning with the development of time in Levinas, and continuing with Jean-Luc Marion, specifically the viability of his concept of saturated phenomena in light of critiques from Dominique Janicaud. 
   
Current Research:

    His Ph.D. dissertation will address how to give a phenomenological account of ethics when the basic presuppositions of ethics are no longer viable.  Through a study of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben, I will pursue how the problem of Auschwitz, as a throwing into question of all law, dignity, decency, and responsibility, is not finished, but continues to define our society today, and how it opens a new ethical terrain that has still yet to be realized.  I will therefore argue that in the essence of life found in the work of Michel Henry (1922-2002), as the original and unsurpassable causality in which everything is immediately and unquantifiably given to itself in life's immanent affection of itself, we discover a concept of self necessary for the advancement of all ethical activity and subjectivity in today's socio-political climate.

CONFERENCES

2010: “Philosophy, Life, and Love?”, at Departmental Seminar, NUI Galway, November 22, 2010.
2011: “Levinas and the Reassessment of Knowledge and Sensibility,” at 6th Annual conference of the North American Levinas Society, Texas A&M University, May 26-28.
2011: “An Ethics of Life: After Agamben and the Testimony of the Drowned,” at 5th Global conference on Ethics, Evil, Law and the State, Warsaw, Poland, May 19-21 (Forthcoming).
2011: “Solitude and Strangeness in the Community to Come: Heidegger and the French Appropriation,” at 5th International Symposium on “The Solitary Being,” University of Bern, Switzerland, May 24-27.  
2011: “Forgetting and its Place in Phenomenology,” at 6th Annual International Conference on Philosophy, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, May 30-June 2.
2011: “Philosophy and Life: A study of sight, decision, and disclosedness in Heidegger's reading of the Allegory of the Cave,” at Society for European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy, York St. John University, August 31-September 3.
2012: “The Impossibility of Forgiveness: Saying and Event in Derrida and Heidegger,” at 3rd Derrida Today Conference, University of California, Irvine, July 11-13 (forthcoming)


PUBLICATIONS

2010: Book Review: “The Exasperating Gift of Singularity: Husserl, Levinas, Henry,” in Analecta Hermeneutica, Vol. 2.  
2011: “An Ethics of Life: After Agamben and the Testimony of the Drowned,” Inter-Disciplinary Press (under review)
2011: "Natality and Ground: Reason, Birth, and Death in Heidegger, Marion, and Nancy" Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy (under review)
2012: "Creation in a Time of Destitution: Repetition and Risk in Kierkegaard and Beyond", The European Legacy (under review).

EDITORSHIPS

2009: Contributing Editor on “A Companion to Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religious Life” (Rodopi, 2010).

    

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