Kir Kuiken Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2006 Romantic Literature and Culture, 19th-century British Literature, Literary Theory, Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Political Theory.Humanities 364 |
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Professor Kuiken joined the faculty at the University at Albany in 2008. His areas of research include Romantic Literature and Culture, Romantic moral and political philosophy, and contemporary political and aesthetic theory. His present work focuses on the relationship between aesthetic imagination and the formation of modern political sovereignty in the wake of the collapse of divine right. His current book project traces the development of materialist conceptions of the imagination in Romanticism for the construction of community. What emerges is a form of sovereignty that leads to something other than a fantasized political homogeneity, a sovereignty that must refer itself to the temporally determined, non-transcendental, material conditions of its institution. His other projects include exploring the legacy of this materialist conception of sovereignty throughout current debates in critical theory.
Selected Publications“Between Heidegger and Derrida: On the Impossible Futures of Techne.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 33.3-4 (2006), forthcoming.
“Deleuze/ Derrida: Towards an Almost Imperceptible Difference”. Research In Phenomenology 35 (2005): 290-308.
“On the Delineation of Choice and Decision in Benjamin’s Goethe’s Elective Affinities.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 31.3 (2004): 286-308.
Selected Conference Papers and Lectures“Shelley’s Materialism: On the Imagination and the Language of Objects in the Defence of Poetry” International Conference on Romanticism, Baltimore, MD, 2007.
“Between Two Futures: The Question of Techne in Derrida’s Reading of Marx.” “Following Derrida: Legacies” conference, Winnipeg, 2006.
"Wordsworth's Second Missed Crossing: Techne and the Imaginatio Negativa of The Prelude." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Lafayette, IN, 2006.
“Shelley’s Defence of Poetry and the Counter-history of Romanticism.” Invited lecture, University of Alberta, 2006.
“Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Heidegger’s Reading of Hegel.” Plenary Address, Belabouring Derrida” conference, Edmonton, 2005.
“The Kantian Crisis and the Romantic Response.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Winnipeg, 2004.
Recent CoursesENG 334 19th-Century British Literature
ENG 305Z Studies in Writing about Texts
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