For centuries, the novel was considered inferior to works of history, religion, science, philosophy, and biography. Philosophers turning to literature overlooked the novel in favor of more prestigious genres such as drama and poetry. But all of this changed in the Golden Age of the Novel. The rise of the realist novel transformed the imagination of everyday life within philosophy.
Bringing together novel theory with a significant turning point in the history of thought, this talk explores how the form of the novel raised new problems of freedom, self-knowledge, and social reality for thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Heidegger.
Presented by Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research.Â
Yi-Ping Ong is Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Undergraduate Honors Program, Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Ong’s teaching focuses on 19th & 20th Century literature and philosophy, reflecting interests in the history and theory of the realist novel, modernism, existentialism, and issues of justice and ethics in contemporary world literature.
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