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JOHN M. OLIN CONFERENCE

The End of the West? The End of Modernity?
June 19-23, 1989

June 19-23, 1989, 10:00 each morning

Institut d'Études Politiques
30, rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris
Salle André Siegfried, sixth floor

Introduction

Many of the most thoughtful and powerful contributors to contemporary intellectual life argue that the West is in some sort of crisis or decline, which may even mark the end of the West or of modernity and the beginning of a post-Western or post-modern era. The notion of the end of the West or modernity seems not only to be a matter of practical politics but to cut to the heart of our situation and to require revision of our conduct and conception of the whole cultural and educational enterprise. On this issue seem to turn the questions of what thinking is and should be and our general disposition toward the past and the future.

These serious contributors to the debate about the end of the West or of modernity have agreed to present papers examining the nature of our situation:

Conference Schedule

June 19	What is (was) the West? discussant:	Jean-François Lyotard Werner Dannhauser
June 20	Nietzsche and the End of the West discussant:	Alexander Nehamas Rémi Brague
June 21	Heidegger and the End of the West discussant:	Otto Pöggeler Gianni Vattimo
June 22	The End of the West: Politics and Education-I discussant:	Geoffrey Hartman E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
June 23	The End of the West: Politics and Education-II discussant:	Richard Rorty Pierre Manent

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