Conversation With Bruce Robbins about His Recent Book, Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction

October 31 at 5 pm
Rifkind Room Na 6/316

Join us on October 31 at 5 pm for a conversation with Bruce Robbins about his recent book, “Criticism and Politics: a Polemical Introduction” (Stanford, 2022). https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34344 

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. 

Bio

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 ‘Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture’ (1993), ‘Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence’ (2012), ‘The Beneficiary’ (2017), and ‘Cosmopolitanisms’, co-edited with Paulo Horta (NYU UP, 2017), among others. He is the director of two documentaries, “Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists” and “What Kind of Jew Is Shlomo Sand?”