Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her fields of study span from the 19th- and 20th-century literature; politics of culture; feminism; Marx and Derrida; to globalization. Her most… Continue Reading
B.A. Brown University (1986); Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995). Sharon Marcus specializes in the literature of nineteenth-century England and France, with an emphasis on the novel; theater and performance; architecture and urbanism; and gender and sexuality. She is the author of… Continue Reading
Lydia H. Liu is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities; Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She received her Ph.D degree in Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 1990. Her research centers on modern China, cross-cultural exchange, and global transformation… Continue Reading
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Founding Director of the Critical Theory Program at UC Berkeley. She received her… Continue Reading
Kendall Thomas is the Nash Professor of Law and co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University in the City of New York. Professor Thomas joined the faculty in 1984. His teaching and… Continue Reading
Richard R.W. Brooks joined Columbia Law School as the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law in July 2013. His scholarship focuses on contracts and agency, among other forms of business and social organization. Brooks has published numerous books and… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In light of the rich discussion at Foucault 3/13, I began researching the role of civil war—and of the war model in social thought more generally—and turned to Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl’s book War in Social Thought:… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The third seminar (video here) on The Punitive Society, with Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati, centered on three topics: (1) the model of civil war as a vehicle to analyze relations of power throughout society; (2)… Continue Reading
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati discuss Foucault’s third lecture series at the Collège de France, The Punitive Society (1972-1973). Please watch the video here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati and the framing… Continue Reading
On October 9, 2015 Christopher Berk presented “Democratic Exclusions: Prisoners, patients, and children in democratic politics” at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Children, prisoners, and the cognitively disabled present a thorny boundary problem for theorists of aggregative and deliberative… Continue Reading