Event overview
An international conference sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics and organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought.
Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal reference for debates on modernity, criticism and poetics, though in the domains of philosophy and critical theory his work is often approached solely through the prism of contemporary commentary. Taking Baudelaire's own references to philosophy seriously, this conference will also explore the complexity of the relation between the received understanding of Baudelaire as a prophet of modernity and his opposition to any idea of progress that would reduce poetic beauty to a vehicle for social and moral development. Baudelaire and Philosophy aims to do justice to the richness, complexity and ambiguity of Baudelaire’s critical and poetic writing, to explore his relation to philosophy and the philosophical, and to interrogate his place as a synonym for a certain idea of modernity.
With talks by:
Isabelle Alfandary (Paris 3/CiPh)
Jennifer Bajorek (Hampshire)
Patrick ffrench (King's College London)
Elissa Marder (Emory)
Richard Rand (Paris)
Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths)
And panels with:
Virgil Brower (Charles University Prague)
Kathryn Brown (Loughborough)
Laura Chiesa (SUNY Buffalo)
Jenny Doussan (Goldsmiths)
Daniela Liguori (Salerno)
Dana MacFarlane (Edinburgh)
Nigel Saint (Leeds)
Robert St Clair (Dartmouth)
Rafael Winkler (Johannesburg)
For more information please visit cpct.uk.
Programme, abstracts and bios.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 5 Jun 2019 |
10:00am - 6:00pm RHB 137a |
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| 6 Jun 2019 |
10:00am - 6:30pm RHB 309 |
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