On August 1, Aftenposten published a short essay (in Norwegian) about why we no longer distinguis clearly between intellectuals, experts and pundits. “Vår tids tenkere.”
Blogging on “Mad Men” for the Wall Street Journal
Posted on 25 July 2010
Walter Dellinger invited David Paletz, Alan Brinkley, Evangeline Morphos and me to join an online conversation, hosted by the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy” blog, about the new season of “Mad Men” which begins tonight on AMC. The first installment will be online as soon as the show ends tonight. Here are the second, third, and fourth instalments.
PAL’s First Year
Posted on 21 June 2010
PAL — Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature has completed its first year! Here’s a pdf file that shows what we did! PAL First Year
The Translation of The Second Sex, yet again
Posted on 21 June 2010
On June 20, The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article by Carlin Romano on the new translation of The Second Sex. Mostly about my views on the translation. For a pdf file of the text, please go to “Essays”.
tagged with beauvoir , translation
Cavell Conference at Harvard 14-16 October
Posted on 26 May 2010
A New Graduate Certificate in Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke!
Posted on 26 May 2010
In April, the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty at Duke approved a new Graduate Certificate in Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke. This will add a new possibility for interdisciplinary immersion in philosophical questions relating to different art forms. By the beginning of the fall semester, the PAL website will be updated with information about the new certificate.
Beyond Critique: Reading After the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Posted on 26 May 2010
Early warning of the next PAL symposium: On Friday September 10, 2010 PAL will host a symposium in the Rare Book Room at Duke’s Perkins Library on ways of reading after the hermeneutics of suspicion. The participants will be Rita Felski (English, University of Virginia), Sharon Marcus (English, Columbia University), Stephen Best (University of California at Berkeley), and Kate Hayles (Literature Program, Duke University). Respondent: Toril Moi. There will be a reception after the event.
New Essay Published in New Literary History
Posted on 8 May 2010
My new essay called: ‘”They practice their trades in different worlds”: Concepts in Poststructuralism and Ordinary Language Philosophy’ is now available in the latest issue of New Literary History 40.4 (Autumn 2009), pp. 801-824. By focusing on their different views of concepts, the essay shows that Derrida and Wittgenstein have radically different ideas about what the purpose of philosophy is. The essay is an attempt to show why it is so difficult to have a meaningful dialogue between the two intellectual traditions. A pdf file is now available under “Essays”.
tagged with olp , wittgenstein
The New Translation of The Second Sex
Posted on 1 May 2010
I have uploaded my London Review of Books review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex under “Other Writing”. The pdf file contains all the letters to the editor as well. My own reply to the translators is included in the file, somewhere in the middle of the letters. You will also find my essay on the old translation of The Second Sex there, for comparison.
tagged with beauvoir , translation
The New Translation of The Second Sex
Posted on 6 February 2010
Toril Moi’s review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is now available on the website of the London Review of Books.
tagged with beauvoir , translation