A Conversation with Bruce Robbins about his book 'Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction'
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
CONVERSATION WITH BRUCE ROBBINS ABOUT HIS RECENT BOOK,
CRITICISM AND POLITICS: A POLEMICAL INTRODUCTION
October 31 at 5pm
Rifkind Center, NA 6/316
Join us on October 31 at 5pm for a conversation with Bruce Robbins about his recent book, Criticism and Politics: a Polemical Introduction (Stanford, 2022).
What conflicts and what aspirations have animated literary criticism over the past sixty years? Why is politics inherent to the project of criticism? What can we expect from literary studies in our present moment? These are some of the questions Robbins will help us explore.
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He previously taught at the universities of Geneva and Lausanne as well as Rutgers University. He is the author of 鈥楽ecular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture鈥 (1993), 鈥楶erpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence鈥 (2012), 鈥楾he Beneficiary鈥 (2017), and 鈥楥osmopolitanisms鈥, co-edited with Paulo Horta (NYU UP, 2017), among others. He is the director of two documentaries, 鈥淪ome of My Best Friends Are Zionists鈥 and 鈥淲hat Kind of Jew Is Shlomo Sand?鈥
FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC