Columbia Medieval Colloquium: Andrew Cole, “The Thing About Examples in Kant’s Critiques”

The Columbia University Medieval Colloquium invites you to a talk by Professor Andrew Cole (Princeton) on:

Professor Cole is the author of The Birth of Theory (Chicago, 2014), which details Hegel’s discovery of the dialectic in medieval philosophy. The Birth of Theory is the first volume of a three-part study. Elements of the Ideal, the second installment, examines the dialectic of idealism and materialism over many centuries from Plato to the medieval mathematicians, and includes expositions of Proust, Lenin, Adorno, Lacan, and of course Hegel. Recently, Professor Cole has edited a special topic of the minnesota review, entitled “The Medieval Turn in Theory” (spring 2013), which includes his paper “The Call of Things: A Critique of Object Oriented Ontologies.” He has also written a major study of late medieval literature entitled, Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer (Cambridge, 2008), and recently has published The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman (co-ed. Andrew Galloway, 2014).

The event will be held on April 16 (THIS THURSDAY) at 7:10pm in 467 Schermerhorn.