Prof Gary Peters - Papers and Publications
Published Work
Single Authored Books
The Philosophy of Improvisation, University of Chicago
Press, 2009.
Irony and Singularity: Aesthetic Education
from Kant to Levinas, Ashgate Publishers, 2005.
Book Chapters
In the Moment: Improvisation and the Phenomenology of
Internal Time-Consciousness, in George Lewis and Ben Piekut
(eds) The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, 2
Vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2012)
Get Over It: A Response to the Stone Art
Theory Institutes Seminars, in James Elkins and
Harper Montgomery (eds) Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
(London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2011)
Ignorant Students/Ignorant Teachers,
in Tom Claes and David Seth Preston (eds) Frontiers of Higher
Education, Rodopi Press, 2010
The Death of a Friend: Some Themes in
Derrida’s ‘Work of Mourning’, in Asa Kasher (ed.) Making Sense
of Dying and Death Vol 2, Rodopi Press, 2007
No Place Like Home: Imagining,
Thinking and Homelessness in Kant and Heidegger, in Mary
Modeen (ed.) This Place Called Home, Manx National Heritage Press,
2006
Time To Die: The Temporality of Death in
the Philosophy of Singularity, in Andrew Fagan (ed.), Making
Sense of Dying and Death Vol 1, Rodopi Press, 2004
The Aesthetics of Loss, in The Lost
Works of Dunhill and O’Brien, Wild Conversations Press, 2001
Dissonant Man, in Howard Caygill and
Keith Ansell-Pearson (eds.) The Fate of The New Nietzsche, Avebury,
1993
Academic Journal Papers
Yes, No, Don’t Know, in, Parallax 56, August 2010 (I
was guest editor for this edition)
Zone of Accuracies, Zone of Truth: Art,
Science and Neutrality, Neutral, Spring 2009
Can Improvisation be Taught?, in, The
International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 24, No. 3,
2005.
The Fear of Fear: The Phenomenology of
Death and Dying in Heidegger and Levinas, in Contemporary
Philosophy, vol. XXVI, no 3 & 4, 2005
Dissymmetry and Height: Rhetoric, Irony
and Pedagogy in the thought of Husserl, Blanchot and Levinas,
in Human Studies, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 2004
Means Without End: Production, Reception
and Teaching in Kant’s Aesthetics, in, The Journal of
Aesthetic Education, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 2004
The Aestheticisation of Research in the
Thought of Maurice Blanchot, in, The International Journal of
Education and the Arts, March 2003
Against Integration: Distinguishing Art
Theory and Aesthetics, in, The International Journal of Art
and Design Education, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2001
The Aporia Of Configured Meaning: Teaching
Hegel’s Aesthetics, in The Journal of Visual Art Practice,
Vol. 1, No. 2, 2001
The Rhythm of Alterity: Levinas and
Aesthetics, in Radical Philosophy, No. 82, March/April
1997
The Double Stillness: Speech, Silence and
Musicality in Nietzsche, in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies,
Issue 2, Autumn 1991
Book Reviews
Review of, Michael Kooy, Coleridge, Schiller, and Aesthetic
Education, The Journal of Aesthetic Education - Volume 40,
Number 3, Fall 2006, pp. 119-124
Academic Conference Papers
Invited keynote speaker at 4th BaltArt
Symposium: ‘Art*Eros*Education’, March
19th-21st 2012, Helsinki.
Hitchcock, Hermann, Hegel and the Severe
Style, Hitchcock/Hermann: Partners in Suspense Conference,
Royal York Hotel, York, UK, March 24th, 2011.
From Essential to Non Essential Solitude:
Heidegger and Blanchot on Irony and Art, Society of European
Philosophy Annual Conference, Rome, July 2010
The Artist Behind the Microscope: Imaging
the Un-Image-able, ‘The Artist under the Microscope c. 1950 to
the present’ conference at Ustinov College, The University of
Durham, 14th November 2009
Why This and not That? Art and the
‘emancipation of contingency’ Keynote at the One-day
interdisciplinary symposium ‘On Not Knowing’, Kettle’s Yard House,
Cambridge, June 2009. Organised by the ‘Visual Intelligences’
Project at Lancaster University and the ‘How Art Thinks’ Project at
the University of the Arts, London.
The ‘There’ and the ‘Given’: Art and
Origination in Heidegger and Benjamin.Art, Praxis and Social
Transformation, State University of California, San Francisco,
November, 2008.
The Role of the Intellectual within the
Art School, 1st Global Conference: Intellectuals: Knowledge,
Power, Ideas. Budapest, May 2008.
Art and Exchange Value: Is the Aesthetic
Transferable? 5th Global Conference: The Idea of
Education: At the Interfaces of Higher Education, Budapest, May
2008.
Ignorant Teachers/Ignorant Artists,
Association of Art Historians Conference, Tate Britain, London,
April 2008.
It Gives: The ‘there’ and the ‘given’ in
the Space of Improvisation. Land2D one day symposium: ‘The
place of Improvisation and the Improvisation of Place, University
of the West of England, Bristol, July 2005
Can Improvisation be Taught? Hawaiian
International Conference on Education, Honolulu, January 2005
Death and the Phenomenology of Internal
Time Consciousness, Annual Conference of Phenomenology and the
Human Sciences, Boston, November 2003
The Death of a Friend: Reflections on
Derrida’s ‘Work of Mourning’, 2nd Global
Conference, Making Sense of Dying and Death, Paris, November
2003
Time to Die: The Temporality of Death in
the Philosophy of Singularity, 1st Global
Conference, Making Sense of Death and Dying, Brussels, November
2002
Dissymmetry and Height: Phenomenology and
Pedagogy in the thought of Blanchot and Levinas, Annual
Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences,
Loyola University, Chicago, October 2002
Nietzsche’s Recreation: The Annihilation
of Wagner, Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche
Society, Middlesex University, April 1991
Other Academic Papers
Aesthetic Education, a Pedagogy of Disaster? Invited
speaker as part of the lecture series: ‘The Future of Pedagogy’,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Sept. 19th
2010
From the
Heart…passions...interests…curiosities, The Graduate
School of the University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College
of Art and Design, November 2005
The Philosophy and Practice of
Improvisation, The Graduate School of the University of
Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, March
2005.
What is Aesthetic Education? Some Thoughts
on Kant, Schiller and Paul de Man, Centre for Research in
Modern European Philosophy and Continental Aesthetics, Middlesex
University, April 2004.
Other Academic Activities/Output
Organization of the Society of European Philosophy
and the Forum of European Philosophy Annual Conference, York
St John University, York, 31st August-3rd
September, 2011.
Curated Sphere of Accuracies/Zone of
Truth group art exhibition at Bar Lane Studios Gallery, York.
5th -31st March 2011.
Production of a YES! CD to accompany
the Journal Parallax 56. August 2010
Debatable Land, composition,
performance, recording and production of music as part of an
artist’s/CD project with Iain Biggs (writer, artist, Head of
research at U.W.E) Forthcoming, Wild Conversations Press, 2007.
Organisation and Co-ordination of
Land2D symposium on Improvisation, University of
the West of England, July 2005. For details see:
www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/
Organisation and co-ordination of
Predicaments in Visual Culture, a series of three symposia
at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, in conjunction with the
Dept. of Visual Culture, University of the West Of England.
January 22nd 2005, Visible and
Invisible Culture
February 19th 2005, Theorising
Creativity
March 19th 2005, Mediated
Pleasures in (Post)Feminist Contexts
8 Lost Songs (the Sowdun Parish
Blues), Composition, performance, recording and production of
eight “songs”, as part of an artist’s book/CD project with Iain
Biggs (writer, artist, Principle Lecturer/Head of Research, U.W.E)
and Veryan Weston (pianist/improviser, Emanem Records)), Wild
Conversations Press, December, 2004.