Dr. Paul North: "Marx and the Horizon of Change"

About this event

Sponsor: Department of Comparative Literature.

Co-sponsors: Hightower Speakers Fund, Department of Philosophy, Department of History, Department of English, Department of German Studies, and the Institute for Liberal Arts.

The Department of Comparative Literature is please to present a guest lecture by Dr. Paul North, Yale University.

Paul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German and Philosophy at Yale University. He works in literature and criticism, post-Kantian philosophy, Jewish thought, and critical theory, with recent focus on Karl Marx. He has written four books. The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital (forthcoming 2027). Bizarre Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Zone 2021), The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Standford 2015). And The Problem of Distraction (Stanford 2012). He is co-editor of a new edition of Marx’s Capital, three volumes, with Princeton University Press. Volume 1 appeared in 2024, and Volume 2 is expected in 2027.

Reception to follow.