Emily Apter is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Recent works include Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Verso, 2013) and the co-edited Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton UP, 2014). She is finishing a book on “unexceptional politics” and the art of political fiction. Lecture: Falling Up Reviewing the famous episode in Rousseau’s Rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire when the narrator is.. Read More
CHRISTOPHE BOUTON
Christophe Bouton is Professor of Philosophy at the University Bordeaux Montaigne, and currently a Visiting Scholar at NYU. His research area is focused on the issues of time and history in the contemporary philosophy. His most recent publication is Time and Freedom (Northwestern University Press, 2014). Lecture: Time and Freedom This talk will address the problem of time from the standpoint of the relation between time and freedom. From.. Read More