The West Coast Heidegger Workshop focuses on historical studies of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe and studies of Heidegger’s GA in the history of philosophy.
We have held an annual blind-reviewed, in-person conference around the middle of January each year, and are also hosting invited monthly online papers during the Fall and Spring semesters.
Our research framework emphasizes three core dimensions of scholarship:
We are interested in the scholarship of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, in the historical study of Heidegger’s thought as it develops and evolves. This, necessarily, also includes the study of Heidegger’s sources, both referenced and unreferenced, but in a manner that emphasizes a historico-philological dimension.
We are interested in Heidegger’s history/histories of philosophy as they are articulated throughout his writings. We are interested in investigating — critically but constructively — both the overlaps and confirmations, as well as the discontinuities and differences among the different presentations throughout the GA.
We are equally interested in Heidegger’s own place in the history of philosophy, in relation to Heidegger’s period contexts, but also in the systematic relationship between Heidegger’s thought and that of other figures, movements and periods, insofar as this is studied from a developmental perspective, shedding light on Heidegger’s thought.
In contrast to topical work, we are interested in cultivating studies that have a strong genetic, textual anchoring that avoids anachronism.
Topics from recent workshops include, but are not limited to:
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