updated March 27, 2006
Philosophy - General and Continental / Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology / Martin Heidegger / Jacques Derrida
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a reliable philosophical reference work.
To research secondary literature on a philosophical topic, consult the Philosopher's Index.
The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) is the association of North American philosophers working in "Continental" (European) thought. Program of most recent meeting. Current call for papers.
The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its next annual meeting on May 29-31, 2006, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at York University.
The Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context meets annually in conjunction with SPEP.
Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française: Call for Papers Vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 2004)
Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology hosts regular meetings of its own and special sessions at SPEP.
The American Philosophical Association is the main professional association of philosophers in North America.
The question "What Is Phenomenology?" is addressed at the website of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. See also the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology published by CARP, part of the Reference collection in Mills Library.
Subscribing to the Newsletter of Phenomenology, edited by Cristian Ciocan, is an excellent way to keep up to date on developments in this field
List of journals in phenomenology, maintained by Romanian Society of Phenomenology.
The Husserl Page, maintained at the University of KentuckyHusserl Archives, Leuven (Belgium)
Brief biography
of Eugen Fink (in German), posted by the
Eugen Fink Archive at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg. "Ereignis"
is a site devoted to Heidegger's life and work. http://www.heidegger.org
is maintained by one of Heidegger's grandsons, Burghard Heidegger.
Centre
des études heideggeriennes, founded in 2002 by Alfred
Denker, Holger Zaborowski, and Daniel Ferrer.
Denker and Ferrer also maintain the site http://www.martin-heidegger.org.
Husserl
Archives, New School for Social Research, including a new Internet
publication project, "On
the Future of Husserlian Phenomenology": Call
for Papers (deadline June 15, 2006)
Ronald
Bruzina, Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink. Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology,
1928–1938. Yale UP, 2004.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
"Wegweiser
durch die Heidegger-Literatur." Resource page maintained by the
University of Freiburg library, including a bibliography
of secondary literature.
Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes, Duncker & Humblot.
Heidegger-Jahrbuch, Verlag Karl Alber.
Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, Vittorio Klostermann.
Contents compiled by Ferrer/Denker. Contents, with some links to English translations, from "Ereignis."List of Courses and Seminars, compiled by Alfred Denker.
The Ister (2004), a film by David Barison and Daniel Ross
What better way to deepen your thinking about a philosopher than to enter into a conversation with him or her in person? For a time during 2000-2001, Martin Heidegger appeared on the Montreal-based Dialogus website and entertained questions in French and English. Will someone find a way to bring him back? (To learn more about participating in the Dialogus project, see here.)
Tributes to Jacques Derrida (d. October 8, 2004) - including a number of recent special journal issues.
A very fine introduction to Derrida's life and work is Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (University of Chicago Press) [to be placed on reserve for this course].
"Derrida
and the Time of the Political." Conference at UC Berkeley, February
10-11, 2006.
The topic of this year's Collegium
Phaenomenologicum (Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, July 10-28, 2006)
is "Derrida's Pharmacy". The application deadline is February
15, 2006.
Mosaic. A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature is
hosting a conference to commemorate the second anniversary of Derrida's death,
"Following
Derrida: Legacies," at the University of
Manitoba, October 4-7, 2006.
A comprehensive Derrida site, "Deconstruction on the Net," was created by Peter Krapp, who paused it in 2000, but has now resumed with occasional updates.
Biographical and bibliographical overview by Eddie Yeghiayan, Bibliographer for Philosophy and Critical Theory at the library of the University of California at Irvine.
Materials assembled at Stanford University in preparation for Derrida's lecture there on April 15, 1999.
An article by James E. Faulconer (Philosophy, Brigham Young University) on "Deconstruction." (1998).
"Le Siècle et le pardon," an interview on forgiveness (Le Monde des Débats, December 1999). Translated into English (minus the interviewer's questions!) as "On Forgiveness" in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Routledge).
"Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation" conducted in 1990 by Gary Olson for the journal JAC.
Cardozo Life, a publication of Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University, conducted an interview with Derrida on law in October 1998.
"Khoraographies for Jacques Derrida," a special issue of the on-line journal Tympanum is a collection of articles in honor of his 70th birthday, July 15, 2000.
Interview with LA Weekly (November 2002).
Derrida on Film:
