Visiting Speakers

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Richard Rorty is a philosopher, literary critic, and political theorist. 

Emma Rothschild is the Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, and specializes in the history of economic thought.

Diarmuid Costello specializes in post-Kantian Continental aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and theories of art and photography.

Art historian, art critic and literary critic, Michael Fried is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Art History at Johns Hopkins University. In his work, Fried engages questions of modernism, realism, theatricality, objecthood, self-portraiture, embodiedness, and the everyday.

Jean-Joseph Goux is Professor of French Studies at Rice University. A major participant in the Tel Quel group in France, his Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud made available for the first time in English generous selections from Goux's Freud, Marx: Economie et symbolique (1973) and Les iconoclastes (1978). His most recent book is Fractures du temps (Editions Des Femmes, 2014).

Stephen Greenblatt is an American literary critic, theorist, and scholar.

Ian Hacking is one of the world's leading scholars in the fields of philosophy and history of science.