Thursday
Sep. 20
7:00pm - 8:30pm
La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
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A roundtable on Sharing
Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an
important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses
historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new
translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full,
to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools
borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of
several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault,
Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among a host of
others.
Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums-such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call “cultural memory.” Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically.
Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums-such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call “cultural memory.” Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically.
ROBERT
HARVEY
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University; author of Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics; Les Écrits de Marguerite Duras; De l’exception à la règle; Sharing Common Ground
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University; author of Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics; Les Écrits de Marguerite Duras; De l’exception à la règle; Sharing Common Ground
with
EDWARD S.
CASEY (Philosophy,
Stony Brook University)
JEANNE
ETELAIN (French
Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU)
DENIS
HOLLIER (French
Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU)
What is a Space for
Ethics? - Robert Harvey