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A Master Class with Professor Bruno Bosteels
FACULTY AND STUDENT EVENT ONLY

Starting from the premise that finitude constitutes the new dogmatic presupposition of much work in philosophy or so-called “theory” after
Heidegger and Foucault, this seminar will proceed to tackle five key concepts that figure prominently in the new jargon of finitude: difference, retreat,
inoperativity, affect, and community or commonality.

October 4th and 18th, and November 1st, 15th, 29th, 2013
5:00 – 7:00pm

Bruno Bosteels is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique
(La Fabrique, 2009); Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press, 2011); The Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011), and Marx and Freud in Latin America (Verso, 2012). He is preparing two new books, After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy and Philosophies of Defeat: The Jargon of Finitude (under contract with Verso). He has translated Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject (Continuum, 2009). Further translations include Badiou’s Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy, Philosophy for Militants, The Adventure of French Philosophy and Rhapsody for the Theatre (all for Verso). He is the author of dozens of articles on modern Latin American literature and culture, and on contemporary European philosophy and political
theory. Between 2005 and 2011, he served as the general editor of Diacritics.

5-7pm, Sidney Smith Hall
Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, SS2098

NOTE: To participate in this Master Class, please email Kevin.Coleman@utoronto.ca to register.