Faculty and postgraduate students are very welcome to join us at any or all of the following sessions. Meetings take place in Senate House, Russell Square, North Block, Ground floor. We go for a drink and sometimes dinner afterwards. See ‘About the seminar’ for further details including a map.
Wednesday April 30th – Reading group – 6-8pm
Reading: M. Blanchot, ‘Wittgenstein’s Problem’ in The Infinite Conversation [L'Entretien infini,
Paris, Gallimard, 1969] Univ. Minnesota Press (1993) [Chapter VIII]
See Texts for Reading Groups for a PDF that you can print off or read onscreen.
Wednesday May 14th – Speaker session – 6-8pm
Dr Céline Surprenant, University of Sussex - ‘Aesthetic Disproportion: On Flaubert’s Complaint that “There are Too Many Things and not enough Forms”‘
Céline is the author of Freud’s Mass Psychology: Questions of Scale (Palgrave, 2003), Freud :
A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008), and of articles on Marcel Proust, Beckett, and
Jean-Luc Nancy among others. She has translated Jean-Luc Nancy, The Speculative Remark
(Stanford, 2001), among others. Céline is currently working on a monograph, which
examines ideas of calculative reason in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century
philosophy and literature. Her research interests are in European literature (narrative fiction),
aesthetics and literary theory; the philosophical reception of Freudian psychoanalysis.
