Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research project:
Ordinary Language and Second Nature: Returning to Ourselves in Hegel and Cavell
At the Cluster of Excellence, Andrew Norris is pursuing a research project that examines the social mode of being of normative orders in relation to Hegel and Cavell. Hegel and Cavell share the idea that normative orders do not exist primarily in the form of ought, i.e. not in the form of demands or regulations, but as rules that constitute social practices. At the same time, according to Hegel and Cavell, social practices essentially include a moment of the unconscious, the pre-reflective, the inert. Against this background, the question arises as to how subjects can simultaneously relate to the practices of which they are a part in such a way that they can assert their normative content against its merely lived-in, customary and seemingly self-evident social form.
Norris’ thesis is that Hegel clearly posed this problem, but did not solve it convincingly. And in Cavell’s repeated attempts to think a free relationship to the ordinary, he seeks potentials for a convincing theorization of successful processes of subjectivation, on which the transformation of normative content from its merely habitual everydayness into a free, reflexive and thus also critical form depends.
Events:
October 23 to 25, 2014
International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence The Receptivity of Judgement
Receiving Autonomy: On Cavell’s Perfectionism
Location: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, “Normative Orders” building
November 5, 2014, 6 p.m.
Lecture
Skepticism as Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell
Location: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, “Normative Orders” building
December 2, 2014, 2:30 p.m.
Paper Presentation
Location: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Biografische Angaben
Andrew Norris teaches political science and philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the editor of The Claim to Community (Stanford University Press 2006), Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer" (Duke University Press 2005), and co-editor of Truth and Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press 2012). He is currently working on a monograph on Stanley Cavell's contributions to practical philosophy. -
Publikationen
Andrew Norris, „On Public Action: Rhetoric, Opinion, and Glory in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition“, Critical Horizons 14:2 (2013), S. 200-224. Andrew Norris, „‚How Can It Not Know What It Is?‘ Self and Other in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner“, Film-Philosophy 17:1 (2013), S. 19-50. Andrew Norris, „The Disappearance of the French Revolution in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit“, The Owl of Minerva 44:1/2 (2013), S. 37-66. Andrew Norris/Jeremy Elkins (Hg.), Truth and Democracy, University of Pennsylvania Press 2012. Andrew Norris, „Das Politische als das Metaphysische und das Alltägliche“, in: G. Gebauer/F. Goppelsröder/J. Volbers (Hg.), Wittgenstein: Philosophie als ‚Arbeit an Einem selbst’, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2009. Andrew Norris, „Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm“, Journal of Law and Society 34:1 (2007), S. 31-45. Andrew Norris (Hg.), The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy, Stanford University Press 2006.