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Craft or Sullen Art: Akratic and Melancholy Disciplines

The Department of English presents "Craft or Sullen Art: Akratic and Melancholy Disciplines," a lecture by Oren Izenberg, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Oren Izenberg's current research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary Anglophone poetry and poetics and on intersections between literature and philosophy. His first book, Being Numerous: The Poetic Imagination of the Ground of Social Life, (Princeton, 2011) describes the ways in which 20th century poets responded to a century of crisis and rethought, by means of their art, the question of what counts as a person. Professor Izenberg's new project, Lyric Poetry and the Philosophy of Mind, proposes that the object the mind makes—principally, the lyric poem— might be better understood by giving some attention to our strongest recent accounts of the nature and structure of thought. He places poems alongside recent work in (analytic) philosophy, considering works of art variously as examples, dramatizations of, and experiments in the mind’s workings.

Free and open to the public.

For more information or to request disability accommodations, contact the Department of English at english@uci.edu or (949) 824-6712.