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X-WR-CALNAME:“Are We Modern?” - Joshua Kates
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DESCRIPTION:Modernity\, a notion with many parents and offspring\, seems es
 pecially significant in the St. John’s context\; there it is sometimes c
 alled on to account for why what is believed prior to coming to St. John
 ’s—that multitudes and magnitudes are interchangeable\, or all aesthet
 ic or ethical judgements relative—is believed. Yet modernity\, if it is 
 an historical notion\, seems in tension with St. John’s own ethos\, its 
 laudable distance from history and its refusal to historicize intellectual
  work and texts. Modernity’s character\, then\, invites questioning: is 
 it finally or wholly a historical conception\; is the transformation of vi
 ewpoint modernity indicates genuinely corrigible? This talk examines two r
 elated accounts of scientific modernity’s advent—those of Jacob Klein 
 and Alexander Koyré—both powerful framings of modernity\, to try to bet
 ter work out modernity’s status and conception.\n\nJoshua Kates is a vis
 iting professor at the University of Chicago and is Professor emeritus at 
 Indiana University. He is a graduate of St. John’s College\, Annapolis a
 nd was a tutor on the Santa Fe campus from 1991-2005. He has written exten
 sively on Jacques Derrida’s early works and their relation to phenomenol
 ogy\, as well as on the philosophy of history and the philosophy of langua
 ge. He is currently working on a book on modernity.
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LOCATION:Santa Fe Campus\, Great Hall
SUMMARY:“Are We Modern?” - Joshua Kates
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