[csaa-forum] REMINDER MONASH CCLCS RESEARCH SEMINAR: Tomorrow - James Phillips on Wordsworth and Fraternity

[Andrew Milner]

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Monash University
Melbourne

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Wednesday 10 September, 3.00 to 5.00 pm., SG02, Manton Rooms, Menzies 
Building (Building 11), Clayton Campus.

WORDSWORTH AND FRATERNITY

James Phillips

James Phillips is ARC Research Fellow in the School of History and 
Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His recent publications 
include 'Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry' 
(2005), 'The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant' (2007) and 
'Cinematic Thinking' (2008).

Abstract: Wordsworth's poetry is an attempt to think through the promise 
and the failure of fraternity in the French Revolution.  This involves 
redefining the role of the poet and the character of community: the poet 
is neither priest nor creator nor legislator, but a brother to people, 
places, animals and things. Wordsworth's alleged pantheism invites 
reconsideration as a dismantling of exclusionist conceptions of community.

The seminar will be followed by drinks and nibbles.

ALL WELCOME