Posts Tagged ‘literature and philosophy’

8 March 2013

2013 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture in London

On Friday March 8 (International Women’s Day!) I will give the 2013 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture, organized by the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies and Queen Mary, both at the University of London.

The title is “Simone de Beauvoir and the Metaphysical Novel: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Other in L’Invitée (She Came to Stay)” The venue is Macmillan Hall, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Since there will be a reception, the organizers are asking for an RSVP by Friday 1 March, bty email to christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk, or by telephone 020 7862 8738.

When I was young and unemployed, Malcolm Bowie supported my work. It is an honor to have the opportunity to give a lecture in his memory.

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22 January 2013

Discussing Norwegian Literature with Ane Farsethås

imagesOn Tuesday 22nd January at 18:00 Ane Farsethås and I will discuss Norwegian literature at  Cappelen Damm publishers in Akersgaten 47/49 i Oslo, tirsdag 22. januar kl. 18.00. The event is free and open to all. You may preregister for the event on Facebook. 

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Språk og oppmerksomhet: My new short book in Norwegian

Posted on 16 January 2013

On January 21st, Aschehoug will publish Språk og oppmerksomhet [Language and Attention] an essay on the value of language and attention after July 22nd. This is a reflection on the value of literature, and of certain kind of philosophy, and as such also a reflexion on the value of the humanities today.

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25 October 2012

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo

On Thursday 25 October, at 6:00 p.m. I will give a lecture (in Norwegian) at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Drammensveien 78, Oslo. The (new) title of the talk is  “Det vanskelige ved virkeligheten: om språk og oppmerksomhet i litteraturen og filosofien”.

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21 June 2012

Aschehoug’s summer seminar 2012

I am delighted to be giving a paper and participating at Aschehoug’s summer seminar for their writers in Oslo on June 21. I am looking forward, very much, to learning more about the interests and concerns of  writers and publishers in Norway today.

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Michael McCreary wins Duke’s Bascom Headen Palmer Prize for the best senior thesis on a literary subject

Posted on 24 April 2012

I am thrilled to announce that Michael McCreary, a philosophy major at Duke, has won Duke’s Bascom Headen Palmer Prize for the best senior thesis on a literary subject for 2012. Michael’s thesis, which I had the great pleasure and honor to direct, is entitled “‘They are Shut’: Confessing the Truth of Skepticism and Acknowledging the Possibility for Tragedy. A Reading of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations with Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground.‘” This is an exceptionally well written and thoughtful investigation of what Dostoevsky’s text can tell us about the attractions of skepticism, and of why the philosophy of Cavell, Wittgenstein, and Austin can help us to see this. I am proud to be associated with such excellent work. I believe this is the first time in recent memory that a Philosophy major wins this award at Duke.

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“Filosofi og hjertesorg”

Posted on 11 June 2011

I have just added a pdf file with the Norwegian text of this article, published in Morgenbladet on 10 June 2011. This is a very abbreviated version of the lecture I gave at Litteraturhuset in Oslo on 7 June 2011. You will find the essay here.

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“The Adventure of Reading” now published

Posted on 12 April 2011

My new paper  “The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir” has now been published in Literature and Theology, 2011. <doi: 10.1093/litthe/frr014> . For a free access link to a pdf of the paper, please click here.

 

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