Arendt and Narrative:
Deadline: October 10
A Panel for Narrative: An International Conference (East Lansing,
Michigan, 11-14 April, 2002)
This panel aims to find new approaches to an aesthetic assessment of
Arendt or of Arendt’s aesthetics. What does Hannah Arendt have to say
about narrative, and what does narrative theory have to say about
Arendt’s work? This panel will try to situate literary scholars and
theorists in relation to the reinvigorated current study of Arendt as
rhetorician, philosopher, and political activist. Theoretical topics
might include: Arendt’s account of the authorless story, exemplary
validity and the role of narrative, “representative thinking,” anecdote
and exemplum, art as artifact, art as praxis, the banality of evil and
its epistemology, political judgment and aesthetic judgment.
Historical/Critical topics might include: Eichmann in Jerusalem and
narration of the Holocaust, the status of political philosophy as
discipline/discourse, Men in Dark Times and biography, example in
Arendt, narrative in Arendt. Attention to recent
reconsiderations/appropriations of Arendt (e.g. LeFort, Benhabib,
Habermas) is also welcome.
Please submit, by OCTOBER 10, abstracts of 500 words and brief vitae
(electronic submissions strongly preferred) to:
John Plotz
National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Plotz@jhu.edu
And to
Philip Joseph
Harvard University
Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
122 Barker Center
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Pjoseph3@aol.com
-- John Plotz, Assistant Professor Department of English, Gilman 155 Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-7546 fax: (410) 516-4757 plotz@jhu.edu "The Crowd": www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8477.html=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
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