Book Trouble I 2005-2006

Program on Law and Social Thought

Politically alert intellectual work engages us in relationships to books -- to other people's writing -- that are often as important as our relationships to mentors and opponents, professional roles, historical crises, social alliances and social movements, our own normative yearnings and commitments, and our own moments of career success and failure. Sometimes books make our work possible; sometimes they block and baffle us. Sometimes we read them in ways that revive their intellectual and political possibilities; sometimes we read to defeat them, to overcome them, even to avoid them. Sometimes we deploy favorite texts to trouble our world; other times the world that troubles us is somehow immanent in a particular book.

Book Trouble places really wonderful readers in a direct engagement with really important books, seeking to explore the trouble that books and their readers can produce.

All are welcome to the following Book Trouble 2005-2006 seminars. Join us -- we hope sparks will fly!

On this site please find a bibliography and suggestions in where to find texts.

Book Trouble 2005-2006 poster (*requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )

October 19, Works in Fiber, Paper and Proust - Opening and Reception
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
6:30-7:30pm, Baker Room, Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Institute Campus
October 20, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on Melanie Klein, "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States" and Meira Likierman, Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context
4:30-6:30pm, Langdell Hall North, Harvard Law School
Due to a problem with the publisher Meira Likierman, Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context is not available at the Coop. Copies of the Likierman book as well as "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States" are now available in Hauser 406.
November 9, The Weather in Proust I - Public Lecture
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
4:30-6:30pm, Gilman Room, Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Institute Campus
November 10, The Weather in Proust II - Public Lecture
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
4:30-6:30pm, Gilman Room, Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Institute Campus
February 23, Partha Chatterjee on Antonio Gramsci's The Prison Notebooks, selections
4:30-6:30pm, Pound Hall 332, Harvard Law School
***Hard copies are available in Hauser 406. Please concentrate on the following sections:
Notes on Italian History and State and Civil Society.***
March 13, Wendy Brown on Max Weber, "Politics as a Vocation" and "Science as a Vocation"in Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures, eds. David Owen and Tracy B. Strong, trans. Rodney Livingstone
4:30-6:30pm,Pound Hall 332, Harvard Law School
***Hard copies are available in Hauser 406.***
April 10, David J. Barron on Gerald Frug's, "The City as a Legal Concept"
4:30-6:30pm, Pound Hall 332, Harvard Law School
***Hard copies will be available in Hauser 406.***

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