Dear all,
You are invited to a lecture by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University
Title: "Prose of the World": Why Diderot Fascinated Hegel, or a Different Enlightenment Legacy.
Time: 18 May 18:00 pm
Place: Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London
Attendance is free but please reserve a place via Eventbrite: http://gumbrechtlecture.eventbrite.co.uk
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of French & Italian at Stanford University. Gumbrecht has written extensively on the literary history of Romance languages (especially French, Spanish, and Brazilian) as well as on German literature. He also teaches and writes about the western philosophical tradition (almost exclusively on non-analytic philosophy) with an emphasis on French and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. In addition, he also has a special interest in analyzing and understanding forms of aesthetic experience found in 21-century everyday culture. Over the past forty years, he has published more than eighteen hundred texts, including books, translated into more than twenty languages. In addition to his presence as a public intellectual, Gumbrecht has received nine honorary doctorates in six different countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and Russia. He has also held a number of visiting professorships, at the Collège de France, Zeppelin Universität (Friedrichshafen), University of Manchester, and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, among others.
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