VÖNL informs:

In this event Prof. Toril Moi presents her actual research area on Wednesday May, 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. in room 42 of University Vienna (main building, Universitätsring 1) in English: “Nothing Is Hidden”: From Confusion to Clarity, or Wittgenstein on Critique. “Critique”, the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and “symptomatic reading” are no longer self-evident methods or goals for literary critics.

Over the past fifteen years, Eve Sedgwick, Bruno Latour, Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, and Rita Felski have all set out powerful reasons for why literary scholars should no longer assume that their goal is to produce critique. In this lecture, Toril Moi shows that Wittgenstein’s understanding of the purpose of philosophy, namely that we should try to get to a clear view can lay the foundation for a critical practice that can handle admiration with the same intellectual power as it handles critique. The lecture will comprise discussions of why we read literature and how we picture the literary text.

Free entrance!