Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne "How Fiction Can Be Made True" Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers' fictional […]
Ben Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford “How updating Frankfurt School political economy changes the way we think about a critical theory of culture in the 21st-century” The lecture shows the transformed potential of the interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School when the framework of economic thinking […]
Jon Auring Grimm, PhD Candidate, Aarhus University "The Musicality of Nature and Cosmic Ornamentation: Poetic knowledge and ecological imagination in Inger Christensen" The entire web of relationships among all existing phenomena that constitutes our world must lead to an increasingly refined understanding that our cultural forms, all human-made expressions, including the diverse forms of poetry, […]
Walter Benn Michaels Professor, English, University of Illinois at Chicago Adolph Reed Professor Emeritus, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, University of Pennsylvania "No Politics but Class Politics" Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central to progressive politics. For many on the left, social justice seems to consist of an equitable […]
Piergiorgio Donatelli Professor of Ethics and Chair, Department of Philosophy University of La Sapienza, Roma
Stewart Motha, Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London; and John Hinkley Visiting Professor, JHU, in 2023.The paper will discuss the limits of anthropomorphism in juridical and theoretical responses to ecological crises.
This lecture will trace the present shape of the modernist public domain—that is, the commons of modernist works that is slowly but steadily emerging from the longest copyrights in history—and will examine, as a particularly vivid instance, the copyright/commons status of James Joyce’s works in the United States and other countries. By the end, I […]
Existentialist thought from Kierkegaard and Heidegger to de Beauvoir and Sartre emphasizes the precarity and vulnerability of existence as well as its freedom and responsibility. In today’s world of impending climate catastrophe, misogynist and racist retrenchment, and nationalist resurgence, the philosophical inquiry into the nature of human existence has attained renewed urgency. For a full […]
Associate’s Lecture Series Frances Ferguson is the Mabel Greene Myers Distinguished Service Professor of English and the College at the University of Chicago. She will be giving a series of three talks in Fall 2022, hosted by the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature.
Associate’s Lecture Series Frances Ferguson is the Mabel Greene Myers Distinguished Service Professor of English and the College at the University of Chicago. She will be giving a series of three talks in Fall 2022, hosted by the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature.
Associate's Lecture Series Frances Ferguson is the Mabel Greene Myers Distinguished Service Professor of English and the College at the University of Chicago. She will be giving a series of three talks in Fall 2022, hosted by the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature.