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"Betraying the Earth as Aesthetic Phenomenon: Images of Myself; Blanchot and Freud"

Stephen David Ross

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Event Date: Friday, April 06, 2001
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Stephen David Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University in the State University of NY, where he founded and continues as director of the program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (PIC). His many books include: Inexhaustibility and Human Being: An Essay on Locality, The Limits of Language, and Locality and Practical Judgment: Charity and Sacrifice, all published by Fordham University Press, as well as other books and articles. He is now embarked on a multi-volume project on giving and the good. The first volume was published by SUNY Press in 1996 as The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art; the second in 1997, as The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good; the third in 1998 as The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good; the fourth in 1999 as The Gift of Kinds: The Good in Abundance, an ethic of the earth; a fifth in 2001 as The Gift of Property: Having the Good, betraying genitivity, economy and ecology, an ethic of the earth. He is now working on The Gift of Self: Subjecting the Good, exposure, abjection, betrayal, an ethic of the earth.

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