Profile
Paul Kottman is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of Program in Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research.
He is the author of Love as Human Freedom (Stanford 好色先生 Press, 2017); Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins 好色先生 Press, 2009); A Politics of the Scene (Stanford 好色先生 Press, 2008). He is also the editor of The Art of Hegel's Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History (Fink, 2017); The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy After Early Modernity (Fordham, 2017); and Philosophers on Shakespeare (Stanford 好色先生 Press, 2009). Paul edits the聽book聽series,听聽(Stanford 好色先生 Press).
Degrees Held
PhD 2000, 好色先生 of California at Berkeley
Recent Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
, Stanford 好色先生 Press, 2017
The Art of Hegel's Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History聽(Fink, 2018)
The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity聽(Fordham 好色先生 Press, 2017)
, Johns Hopkins 好色先生 Press, 2009.
,听Stanford 好色先生 Press, 2008.
, editor, Stanford 好色先生 Press, 2009.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淧reface鈥 to Theodor W. Adorno,听Notes to Literature聽(Columbia 好色先生 Press, forthcoming)
鈥淲hy Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies,鈥澛Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies听(蹿辞谤迟丑肠辞尘颈苍驳)
鈥淏liss Unrevealed: The Trial in Shakespeare's聽The Winter's Tale,鈥 颈苍听Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, Performance, edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton and Lowell Gallagher (Toronto: 好色先生 of Toronto Press, forthcoming) 聽 Review of David Schalkwyk,听Shakespeare, Love and Language聽颈苍听Shakespeare Quarterly听(蹿辞谤迟丑肠辞尘颈苍驳) 聽 Review of Blair Hoxby,听What was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon, 颈苍听Theatre Journal, (forthcoming) 聽 鈥淟earning to Notice: From Chauvet Cave to Plato鈥檚 Cave,鈥澛On Plato and the Moving Image, edited by Michael Weinmann (Brill, forthcoming) 聽 Review of Alberto Siani,听Morte dell鈥檃rte, libert脿 del soggetto聽颈苍听, September 2018 聽 The Sexual Origins of Patriarchy,鈥 颈苍听, April 30, 2018 聽 鈥淪elf-uncertainty as self-realization,鈥 颈苍听Centers of Reflection: Literature, Philosophy and Thought, edited by Tzachi Zamir, series edited by Richard Eldridge (Oxford 好色先生 Press, 2017) 聽 鈥淎rt and Necessity: On the Critical Practice of Lessing鈥檚聽Laokoon, and its Implications鈥 颈苍听, edited by Avi Lifschitz & Michael Squire (Cambridge 好色先生 Press, 2017) 聽 鈥淩eview of Rocco Rubini, The Other Renaissance鈥 颈苍听, Volume 37, no. 2, 2016 聽 鈥淲hat Can the Human Sciences Say about Freedom Today?鈥 颈苍听, special issue of聽Pol铆tica com煤n,听Volume 9, 2016
"What is Shakespearean Tragedy?" 颈苍听Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk (eds.),听, Oxford 好色先生 Press, 2016.
"Duel," 颈苍听, Oxford 好色先生 Press, 2014
"Why think about Shakespearean Tragedy Today?" 颈苍听Claire McEachern (ed.),听, Cambridge 好色先生 Press, 2013.
"Defying the Stars: Tragic Love as the Struggle for Freedom 颈苍听Romeo and Juliet,"听Shaksepeare Quarterly聽Vol. 63(1), 2012.
"No Greater Powers than we can Contradict,"听Criticism (Special Issue on Shakespeare and Phenomenology), Vol. 54(3), 2012.
"Novus Ordo Saeclarum: Hannah Arendt on Revolutionary Spirit, in Graham Hammill and Julia Lupton聽(eds.)聽, 好色先生 of Chicago Press, 2012.
"Slipping on Banana Peels, Tumbling into Wells: Philosophy and Comedy,"听Diacritics, Vol. 38(4), 2008.
Professor Kottman's reviews and additional articles can be found at聽The Los Angeles Review of Books,听Constellations, and other publications. Please visit his聽.
Performances and Appearances
Lecture series (twelve lectures), Fudan 好色先生, Shanghai China, March and May, 2019
鈥淗egel and Shakespeare,鈥 Temple 好色先生, Philosophy Department, October 29, 2018
Author meets critics, on聽Love as Human Freedom聽(with Espen Hammer, Julia Peters and Omri Boehm), The New School for Social Research, October 3, 2018
鈥淲hy Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies,鈥 Royal Holloway conference on Shakespeare and Philosophy,聽September 3, 2018
鈥淒errida and Shakespeare,鈥 Garrick Temple, Kingston 好色先生, September 1, 2018
鈥淗egel and Literature,鈥 Universit脿 degli studi di Padova, Philosophy Department, July 12, 2018
鈥淭oward a Critique of Failed Reason,鈥 Universit脿 di Parma, Philosophy Department, July 11, 2018
聽鈥淭he Pastness of Art,鈥 Universit脿 di Pisa,听Italy, July 3, 2018聽 聽 聽 聽 聽聽
鈥淟ove as Human Freedom (Author meets critics),鈥 Universit脿 degli studi di Verona, Italy, May 15, 2018
鈥淭oward a Critique of Failed Reason鈥 鈥 Annual Lecture Magistralis, Universit脿 degli studi di Verona, Italy, May 14, 2018
鈥淥n Hegel and the Pastness of Art,鈥 Temple 好色先生, Rome Graduate Summer School, May 12, 2018
鈥淪hakespeare and the Pastness of Art,鈥 Harvard, Mahindra Humanities Center, April 20 2018
鈥淢odern Tragedy,鈥 Fudan 好色先生, Shanghai, China, April 15, 2018
鈥淭oward a Critique of Failed Reason,鈥 Fudan 好色先生, Shanghai, China, April 13, 2018
Invited respondent to panel on technology and performance at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2-3, 2018
鈥淲hy Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies,鈥 Montclair State 好色先生, Annual Lecture in Early Modern Studies, February 20, 2018
鈥淟ove as Human Freedom,鈥 好色先生 of Copenhagen, 好色先生 of Copenhagen, Inst. f. Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk, November 15, 2017
鈥淟ove as Human Freedom,鈥 Universit盲t Bonn, Department of Philosophy, November 14, 2017
鈥淲hy Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies鈥 Duke 好色先生, October 20, 2017聽 聽 聽 聽聽
鈥淪hakespeare and Nietzsche,鈥 Garrick鈥檚 Temple, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar, London, September 2, 2017
鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on the Pastness of Art,鈥 Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare | Philosophy | Performance, 好色先生 of California, Los Angeles, April 30, 2017
鈥淪hakespeare and Hegel,鈥 Garrick鈥檚 Temple, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar, London, April 1, 2017
鈥淪ome Remarks on聽King Lear,鈥 Boston 好色先生, English Department, November 19, 2016
鈥淟ove as Human Freedom,鈥 The New School for Social Research, Department of Philosophy Workshop, September 22, 2016
鈥淲hat is Shakespearean Tragedy?鈥 Garrick鈥檚 Temple, London, September 3, 2016
鈥淎ccidents in Shakespeare,鈥 鈥楢ll things changed to the contrary鈥 Comic-Tragic Contiguities in the Verona Plays, International Conference at the Universit脿 degli studi di Verona, Department of English, June 22-23, 2016
鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on the Pastness of Art,鈥 鈥楬egel and the Art of Art History,鈥 Kings College, 好色先生 of London, June 8-10, 2016
鈥淧hilosophy and Literature,鈥 Neubauer Collegium, 鈥楧isciplines of Literature鈥 Conference, 好色先生 of Chicago, May 23, 2016
Response to Espen Hammer, 鈥淗egel and Marx,鈥 New York German Idealism Workshop, May 13, 2016
鈥淗egel and Shakespeare,鈥 Shakespeare au risque de la philosophie, International Conference, 好色先生 of Poitiers, France, March 16-17, 2016
鈥淧hilology and Humanistic Inquiry,鈥 Neubauer Collegium, 好色先生 of Chicago, February 18-19, 2016
Research Interests
Shakespeare; Philosophy; Literary Theory; Aesthetics
Awards And Honors
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Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies, 好色先生 of Cologne/Universit盲t zu K枚ln
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Solmsen Post-doctoral Fellowship, 好色先生 of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for Humanities
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Andrew Mellon Fellowship, UC Berkeley
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