Lecture 3 in the Series "Literary Studies in the 21st Century"

[Lori Straus]

2014 Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is home of the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies. In March and April five leading scholars will explore how literary studies can fulfill the expectations of an academic discipline and connect with a wider audience.
Lecture No. 3 – Thursday, 20 March 2014, 7pm – HH 1102

KEVIN S. AMIDON<http://language.iastate.edu/directory/faculty-and-staff/german-faculty/kevin-amidon-ph-d/> | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

TARRYING WITH THE POSITIVE, OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND TEACH LITERATURE

Are Western forms of representative government and civil society in decline? Possibly due to a decline of reading? I claim that the two major models of Western post-Enlightenment political-economic subjectivity — the liberal-autonomous and the Marxist-class-conscious — no longer adequately ground arguments about either politics or culture. Ongoing developments in the relationships between texts, individuals, and groups relate more significantly to shifts in subjective understanding than they do to technological change. Texts remain technologically and economically mediated artifacts of the relationships between individuals and institutions, and retain their power to teach us about ourselves.


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Full details on all the lectures are available at https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century
For more information contact Prof. Grit Liebscher (gliebscher at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:gliebscher at uwaterloo.ca> / 519.888.4567, x35695)

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