Bruno Bosteels is Dean of Humanities and Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Prior to returning to… Continue Reading
Core Readings Judith Butler, “Why Read Hegel Now?” Crisis & Critique, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2021): 41-55 Judith Butler, “To Sense What is Living in the Other: Hegel’s Early Love” from Senses of the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2015) Judith Butler,… Continue Reading
Core Readings Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject, trans. Bruno Bosteels (London: Continuum, 2009), please focus on Part I, pp. 1-50 and Part III, pp. 111-176. Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, trans. Tzuchien Tho (Melbourne: re:press,… Continue Reading
Core Readings Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 [1968]) (principal thesis for the Doctorat D’État). Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La révolution trahie : Deleuze contre Hegel (Villeneuve d’Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2023)
Core Readings Gessen opinion piece on American history: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/opinion/trump-smithsonian-history-censorship.html Lydia Polgreen editorial in New York Times on “Identity Politics Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This”: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/opinion/democrats-primaries-identity-politics.html Bret Stevens piece in the New York Times on “Yes, Woke 1.0 Was Crazy”:… Continue Reading