January 13 “Eros, Tragedy and the Void in Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy” Kate Petroff, PhD Candidate, Philosophy Respondent: Erik Giard-Chase, MAPH student January 20 “From Erotics to Perspicacity to Depth: Sontag…
TUESDAY, October 5 “Systematic Platonism and the Literary Character of Plato’s Dialogues” Will Altman, Independent Scholar Respondent: Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire, PhD candidate, Committee on Social Thought *Note unusual date* October 21…
Literature & Philosophy Workshop The University of Chicago Spring 2021 Schedule April 8 “The Theaetetus as Philosophical Fiction” By Prof. James Redfield, Classics, Social Thought, and the College Respondent:…
Autumn 2019 Schedule October 10. Luke Foster, Ph.D. Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago “Separated Powers in Hamlet’s Soul: The Tragedy of Denmark” October 17. Andrei Pop, Professor of Social Thought and…
January 10th: Susan McWilliams (Professor of Politics, Pomona College), “American Road Trip Stories and American Political Thought” (Foster 505) Since long before the age of the automobile, Americans have been…
October 2nd: James Kreines (Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College), “Absolute Idealism and the Metaphysical Definitions of God: Hegel on Aristotle and Spinoza” (Foster 505) October 18th: Lindsay Atnip…
March 29th: Michael Rutherglen (PhD student, Committee on Social Thought), “Intermittency, Transparency, & Parody: On Eliot’s Rhymes” (Foster 305) Although T.S. Eliot is most often thought of as helping to…
January 11th: Danielle Charette (PhD student, Social Thought), “Shakespearean Monarchs in Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death: Royal Case-Studies in Despair” (Foster 305) Throughout The Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard draws upon Shakespeare to illustrate the theatrics of…
September 28th: Parysa Mostajir (PhD candidate, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science), “Experience and Literature”This paper provides a pragmatist argument for the importance of literature in a healthy and progressive human…
The Literature & Philosophy Workshop Spring Schedule is now up on our website and included below. All workshops take place in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted; documents are generally available…