The cover of New Directions in Philosophy and Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
The cover of New Directions in Philosophy and Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

This book will be released in September at Edinburgh University Press. It maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literature.

It is edited by Frida Beckman, Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Ridvan Askin, University of Basel, Switzerland, and David Rudrum, University of Huddersfield, England.

Register

Please register your participation in the symposium no later than 4 October, to the Department's Administrator for Collaborative Research Christer Johansson, christer.johansson@littvet.su.se.

Programme

13:00-13:10 

Welcome

13:10-13:30

New Directions in Philosophy and Literature. Ridvan Askin (University of Basel), David Rudrum (University of Huddersfield), Frida Beckman (Stockholm University). 

13:30-14:30 

“Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary”
David Rudrum

“Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism”
Birgit Mara Kaiser (Utrecht University)

“Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms”
Ridvan Askin

14:30-15:00

Coffee break 

15:00-16:00

“Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy”
Ingeborg Löfgren (Uppsala University)

“Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene”
Astrid Bracke (University of Nijmegen)

“Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control”
Frida Beckman

16:00-17:00

Roundtable discussion: Ridvan Askin, Frida Beckman, Astrid Bracke, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Ingeborg Löfgren, David Rudrum, symposium participants.

17:00-18:00 

Reception

18:30

Dinner for the invited speakers