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Proust’s thoughts on desire satisfaction can be summed up in one word: don’t. Don’t satisfy your desires; doing so will invariably fail to satisfy you. Should you therefore seek to eliminate desire? Absolutely not: desiring itself sustains you.

In The Novel and the New Ethics, Dorothy Hale argues that contemporary writers such as Toni Morrison, J.M.

Robbie Kubala is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University, where I also taught in the Core Curriculum. His research interests include normative…

Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative and Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) is delighted to invite you to the 3rd Duke-Stanford Philosophy+Literature Graduate Student Conference.

Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative (Phil+Lit) and Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) is delighted to…

Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative and Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) is delighted to invite you to the 3rd Duke-Stanford Philosophy+Literature Graduate Student Conference.

Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative and Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) is delighted to invite you to the 3rd Duke-Stanford Philosophy+Literature Graduate Student Conference.

Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative (Phil+Lit) and Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) is delighted to…

Cristian will pretend to link the writings of two distant authors in both time and place: the seventeenth century French mathematician and writer Blaise Pascal and the twentieth century Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

Helena de Bres is an associate Philosophy professor at Wellesley College visiting Stanford University.

This is a *pre-read* session, please read the introduction to Carol's forthcoming book AND AT LEAST ONE of the book's chapters.

Melih Levi is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature department. He studies the rise of plain style during the mid-Tudor period of the Renaissance and modern revivals of plainness as a rhetorical strategy to escape modernist orthodoxies.

It is common knowledge in literature departments that fiction writers use visual and sonic qualities of a text to communicate what is true in fiction, but current philosophical theories of fiction only focus on fictional truths that are created in…

Maya Kronfeld is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centers on American and French modernism, and the Philosophy of Mind.  Her most recent talks are on T.S.