Literary Theory
This seminar has had a long and distinguished history at Columbia. It has now been revived in 2006 with a view to pursuing the relations between literature, philosophy, and the politics that pervades our cultural production and its study. For some time now, literary studies has been engaged in wider theoretical approaches to texts and to the very idea of literature and criticism, and the seminar hopes to take philosophical stock of this tendency as well as to try to bring to it, wherever possible, more creative and more rigorous angles. These goals will initially be pursued broadly and ecumenically and should it turn out that one or other theme surfaces, which demands our sustained focus, the seminar will very likely take it up for a whole year, approaching it from different angles. For the most part, one of the members will circulate a paper, introduced for the seminar by another member, but occasionally, we will invite a speaker from outside the membership.
Seminar: #711
Founded: 2005
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
Jonathan Arac
Orlando Harriman Professor of English
Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature
ja2007@columbia.edu
Akeel Bilgrami
Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
Columbia University
ab41@columbia.edu
Bruce William Robbins
Professor
Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature
bwr2001@columbia.edu
Rapporteur:
Bryan Lawrance
Columbia University, Department of English
bil2122@columbia.edu
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