The Inhabitable/The Uninhabitable

HISTORY AND THE FUTURES OF

SUSTAINABILITY:    

Kojève, Blanchot, and the Brundtland Comission  

   

Allan Stoekl is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion and Post-sustainability (2007); Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity and the Performative in the Twentieth Century French tradition (1992) and Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases of Bataille, Roussel, Leiris and Ponge (1985). Translator of Maurice Blanchot (The Most High, 2001), editor of Georges Bataille's Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, Stoekl has in his recent work focused on issues of energy use, sustainability and economy in a literary-cultural and philosophical context. Notably, he has been considering certain theories--of the city, of history, of writing: the surrealists, situationists, Le Corbusier, Kojève, Blanchot--in light of current conceptions (aesthetic, political, energetic) of sustainable urbanism.  

The Department of French Studies at Brown University and the CV Starr Foundation Lectureship present:

Wednesday, November 2 5:30pm The Music Room at Rochambeau House 84 Prospect Street

ALLAN STOEKL