The relationship between philosophy and literature that Romantic poets and thinkers took for granted, and that was sustained in later 19th c. intellectual culture, came to be rejected in the early decades of the twentieth century by a scientifically committed philosophical vanguard. Postwar developments in Anglo-American philosophy have the driven the field ever more decisively out of alignment with the humanistic disciplines. This talk asks what the enterprise of literary studies might still share with philosophy—and how Romanticism can help us recover a sense of their entwined history, common language, and shared imaginative aspirations.
Nancy Yousef is Distinguished Professor of English in the Department of English at Rutgers University.
Co-sponsored by Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities.
LOCATION:Barker Center, Room 133 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20241017T220000Z DTEND:20241017T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR