Heyman Center Common Room, Columbia University
Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Department of Germanic Languages
Location: In-person event in The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University (Map)
Co-sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; the Department of Germanic Languages; the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
With speaker Eric Santner (University of Chicago)
How does Kafka’s “cynical” story, Researches of a Dog, intersect with Shakespeare’s sad stories of the death of kings? How does each author locate a kind of freedom at the point of a missing link in the constitution of the world presented in each text, a point where the sovereign and the creature encounter one another in, to use Paul Celan’s phrase, the majesty of the absurd?
