Dear Colleagues, <\/p>\n
You are warmly welcomed to attend the following talk; refreshments and sandwiches will be available.<\/p>\n
Upcoming CCI Colloquium Series Talk:<\/p>\n
Friday, March 11th, 12:40 G-160<\/p>\n
Thomas Manganaro, Duke University, Department of English Literature<\/p>\n
“Akrasia in the Age of Reason”:<\/p>\n
This talk focuses on the condition of acting against better judgment, or failing to do what you know you ought to do — a condition classically called “akrasia” by the ancient Greeks. This phenomenon becomes particularly interesting in the philosophy and literature of the eighteenth century — the “age of reason.” As philosophy in this period increasingly depicts minds and bodies like systems or machines, it has difficulty describing akrasia — namely, how someone can want to do something and yet not be able to get themselves to do it. Because it is so difficult to explain, akrasia becomes a very rich topic for literary experimentation in this period; we see this in particular in narratives by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Laurence Sterne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Colleagues, You are warmly welcomed to attend the following talk; refreshments and sandwiches will be available. Upcoming CCI Colloquium Series Talk: Friday, March 11th, 12:40 G-160 Thomas Manganaro, Duke University, Department of English Literature “Akrasia in the Age of Reason”: This talk focuses on the condition of acting against [\u2026] <\/p>\n