Lecture
Realität ist schlichtweg das Unverdächtige: On Blumenberg and Critical Affect
Karen Feldman, Professor and Chair
Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
November 1, 2021
Monday
4:30 pm
VIRTUAL Zoom
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Blumenberg’s “Wirklichkeitsbegriff und Möglichkeit des Romans” (1964) expounds a modern concept of reality as what resists our grasp, a successor to an earlier concept of reality as what is secured by a guarantee. Blumenberg’s analysis of reality as resistance illuminates the bottomless suspicion that motivates critique, along with the critical affects catalogued by Eve Sedgwick and Rita Felski—including triumphalism, “smartness”, and self-satisfaction.
Sponsored by the German Department .
