The Critical Theory Emphasis presents a dialogue between and seminar with Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Universite de Paris-Nanterre and UC Irvine, andJacques Lezra, Professor of Comparative Literature Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. Professors Balibar and Lezra will discuss a precirculated text. This event is open to the public.
Jacques Lezra, a specialist in literary theory and in the literary, visual and philosophical culture of the early modern period, has published Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997) and edited Spanish Republic (2005) and Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (1988). He has just completed Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror in Radical Democracy (Fordham UP, 2009).
Etienne Balibar is the acclaimed author of Reading Capital (with L. Althusser, P. Macherey, J. Rancière, R. Establet); On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; Spinoza and Politics; and Race, Nation, Class (in collaboration with I. Wallerstein); The Philosophy of Marx; Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies in Politics and Philosophy; and We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. |