Anthony J

Anthony J. Cascardi

ajcascardi@berkeley.edu

Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, with distinction, 1980

M.A., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1977

B.A., Princeton University, summa cum laude, 1975

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, (1991-present); Goldman Chair, 1998-2004; Ancker Chair, 2004-

Visiting Professor, Primorska University (Koper, Slovenia), Cultural Studies (ongoing)

Associate Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley (1986-1991)

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley (1980-1986).

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS AND SELECTED PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES

Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2006-

Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2005-06

Director, Consortium for the Arts, UC Berkeley, 2004-06

Director, Art Research Center, UC Berkeley, 2004-06

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, 1998-2002

Director, Berkeley Summer Research Seminars, 1996-2000

Chair, Department of Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley, 1993-1998

Vice-President, International Association for Aesthetics, 2004-

Elected Representative, Divisional Council of the Academic Senate, UC Berkeley, 2004-05

Space Allocations and Capital Improvements Committee, U.C. Berkeley, 1996-7

Arts and Humanities Area Council, U.C. Berkeley, 1993-2002

Executive Committee, College of Letters and Science, U.C. Berkeley, 1990-1993

Convener, Faculty Working Group in Philosophy and Literature, U.C. Berkeley, 1987-1990

President's Humanities Initiative Fellowships Committee, Office of the President, U.C.

Vice-Chairman and Head Graduate Advisor in Comparative Literature, UCB, (1986-88)

Chair, Graduate Program Committee in Comp. Lit. (program revision), 1986-87

Undergraduate Advisor in Comp. Lit., UC Berkeley (1982-85)

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Berkeley Art Museum Board of Trustees, 2004-

Cal Performances Board of Trustees, 2005-2007

Berkeley Art Museum Faculty Advisory Board, 2004-

CITRIS Advisory Board, 2005-

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

Margaret and Sidney Ancker Chair, UC Berkeley, 2004-

Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 1998-2002

ArtsBridge Grant (Principal Investigator), 2004-05

Fulbright Fellowship, 2004

Visiting Scholar, University of Copenhagen/EAP, Spring, 2002

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (Publication Grant, 1996)

NEH Summer Institute on Ethics and Aesthetics (Co-Director, 1993)

Faculty Fellow, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley (1991-92)

Gaspar de Portola Visiting Lecturer, University of Barcelona (December, 1991)

Fellow, American Cultures Institute, U.C. Berkeley (Summer, 1991)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (Research Grant, 1991)

Council on Educational Development (C.E.D.) grant, U.C. Berkeley (1989-90)

U.S. Delegate, XIth International Congress of Aesthetics

Choice prize ("Outstanding Academic Book") for Literature and the Question of Philosophy

Andrew Mellon Foundation Publication Award for The Bounds of Reason (1986)

Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (UTE) Grant, U.C. Berkeley (Fall, 1984)

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh (Spring, 1984)

Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Berkeley (1984)

Faculty Visitor, Magdalen College, Oxford University (Spring, 1984)

Junior Faculty Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1983)

Fellow, Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, (1982, declined)

Harvard University Traveling Fellowship (1978)

Latin American Studies Thesis Prize, Princeton University (1975)

Romance Languages Thesis Prize, Princeton University (1975)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND APPOINTMENTS

General Editor, Penn State Studies in Philosophy and Literature, 1990-

Core Faculty Member, Arts Research Center (O.R.U.), U.C. Berkeley

Co-Director, “Art and Aesthetics After Adorno” Conference, UC Berkeley, 2001

Co-Editor, Cambridge University Press series "Literature, Culture, Theory" (1998-2000)

Conference Director, "Passions, Persons, Powers," UC Berkeley, May, 1993

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Mellon Fellowships, Representative, 1982-1988

Editorial Advisory Board, PMLA, 2000-

Conference Director, Philosophy and Literature Conference (Berkeley, 1992)

Editorial Board, Philosophy and Literature (Johns Hopkins U. Press); Editorial Board, Ciberletras; Editorial Board, Literatura Española Comparada / Spanish Comparative Literature, Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and the Self (London)

Executive Committee, Cervantes Society of America (former)

Executive Committee, International Association of Philosophy and Literature (former)

Review Committees

UCLA, Department of English; Smith College, Department of Spanish; University of Denver, Department of English; University of Wisconsin (Madison), Department of Spanish; Williams College, Department of Romance Languages; SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Spanish; University of California, Riverside, Dept. of Spanish; University of Virginia (Department of English)

Consultant/Reviewer for:

Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, University Press of New England, University of Chicago Press, SUNY Press, The Newberry Library Selection Committee, Penn State Press, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer Publishing Group (Amsterdam), PMLA, University of Minnesota Press, Yale University Press, “The History Channel”

Anthony J. Cascardi

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)

2. The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986). Andrew Mellon Foundation Publication Award.

3. Literature and the Question of Philosophy, edited and with introductions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). Voted an "Outstanding Academic Book of the Year" by the Association of College and Research Libraries in Choice. Paperback edition published in March, 1989. Lightning Books electronic reprint, 1999.

4. The Subject of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; reprinted 1994, 1995).

4a. Subjectivité et modernité, trans. Philippe de Brabanter (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995).

4c. Excerpts reprinted in The Celebrity Culture Reader, ed. David Marshall (forthcoming, London: Routledge, 2006).

5. Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997).

6. Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

6a. Chinese translation forthcoming from Commercial Press, Beijing.

6b. “The Consequences of Enlightenment,” pp. 1-48 from Consequences of Enlightenment, in Theodor Adorno: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Routledge)

7. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Articles and Reviews

8. "Reference in Lezama Lima's Muerte de Narciso," Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, 5 (1977).

10. "The Rhetoric of Defense in the Guzmán de Alfarache," Neophilologus, 63 (1979).

11. "Calderón's Encyclopedic Rhetoric," Neophilologus, 63 (1979).

12. "Sobre la fecha de Los hechos de Garcilaso de Lope de Vega," Bulletin of the Comediantes, 34 (1982).

13. Review of Alexander Welsh, Reflections on the Hero as Quixote, Cervantes, 2 (1982).

14. "Comedia and Trauerspiel: On Benjamin and Calderón," Comparative Drama, 16 (1982).

15. "Chronicle Towards Novel: Bernal Díaz' History of the Conquest of Mexico," Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 15 (1982).

15a. "Crónica hacia la novela: La Historia de la Conquista de México de Bernal Díaz," El Guacamayo y la serpiente, 24 (1984).

15b. Reprinted in Spanish American Literature, ed. David William Foster (New York: Garland, 1997).

16. "Leixa-pren y el Libro de buen amor," Nueva revista de filología hispánica, 31 (1982).

17. Review of Darío Fernández-Morera, The Lyre and the Oaten Flute, Journal of Hispanic Philology, 5 (1982).

18. "Borges in the Mirror," The San Francisco Review of Books (June, 1982).

19. "The Journalist as Communist 'Poet,'" Review of Sergei Dovlatov, The Compromise, The Los Angeles Times Book Review (December, 1983).

20. Review of Richard Rorty, The Consequences of Pragmatism, Philosophy and Literature, 7 (1983).

21. "Calderón: The Enduring Monument," Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos," 7 (1983).

22. "Cervantes and Skepticism: The Vanishing of the Body," Essays on Hispanic Literature in Honor of Edmund L. King (London: Tamesis Books, 1983).

23. "Skepticism and the Problem of Criteria in Don Quixote," Homenaje a Stephen Gilman (Revista de estudios hispánicos, Río Piedras, 1983).

24. "The Place of Language in Philosophy, or The Uses of Rhetoric," Philosophy and Rhetoric, 16 (1983)

25. "Cervantes and Descartes on the Dream Argument," Cervantes, 4 (1984).

26. "Reading the Fantastic in Darío and Bioy-Casares," Crítica hispánica, 6 (1984).

27. "Emerson on Nature: Philosophy Beyond Kant," Emerson Society Quarterly, 30 (1984).

28. "Remembering," The Review of Metaphysics, 38 (1984).

29. "Skepticism and Deconstruction," Philosophy and Literature, 8 (1984). Response by Steven Fuller, Philosophy and Literature, 9 (1985).

29a. “Skepticism and Deconstruction,” reprinted in Jacques Derrida: Critical Thought, ed. Ian Maclachlan (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2004), pp, 36-48.

30. "The Exit from Arcadia: Reevaluation of the Pastoral in Virgil, Garcilaso, and Góngora," Journal of Hispanic Philology, 4 (1984).

31. "The Logic of Moods: An Essay on Emerson and Rousseau," Studies in Romanticism, 24 (1985).

32. "On Heidegger and the Recourse to Poetic Language," The Thomist, 49 (1985)

33. "Morality and Theatricality in Calderón's El médico de su honra," Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 32 (1985).

34. "The Genealogy of Pragmatism," Philosophy and Literature, 10 (1986).

35. "Genre Definition and Multiplicity in Don Quixote," Cervantes, 6 (1986)

36. "The Old and the New: The Spanish comedia and the Resistance to Historical Change," Renaissance Drama, n.s. 17 (1986).

36a. "The Old and the New: The Spanish comedia and the Resistance to Historical Change." Reprinted in Renaissance Drama as Cultural History, ed. Mary Beth Rose (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990), pp. 401-428.

37. "From the Sublime to the Natural: Romantic Responses to Kant," in Literature and the Question of Philosophy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).

38. "The Theory of the Novel as Philosophy: Lukács, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset," Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, 11 (1987).

39. "Perspectivism and the Conflict of Values in Don Quixote," Romance Quarterly, 34 (1987).

40. "Between Philosophy and Literature: Ortega's Meditations on Quixote, in José Ortega y Gasset: Proceedings of the "Espectador Universal" International Interdisciplinary Conference, ed. Nora de Marval-McNair (New York: Greenwood Press, Contributions in Philosophy, 1987).

41. "Genealogies of Modernism," Philosophy and Literature, 11 (1987).

42. Review of Kenneth Baynes, James Bohman, and Thomas McCarthy, eds. After Philosophy: End or Transformation?, New Vico Studies, 5 (1987).

43. Review of Kevin Brownlee and Marina Scordilis Brownlee, eds. Romance: Generic Transformation from Chretien de Troyes to Cervantes, Romance Philology, 42 (1988).

44. "The Grammar of Telling," New Literary History, 19 (1988), 403-417.

44a. “The Grammar of Telling,” reprinted in Ordinary Language Criticism, ed. Kenneth Dauber and Walter Jost (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003).

45. "Don Juan and the Discourse of Modernism," in Tirso's Don Juan: The Metamorphosis of a Theme (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1988). Reviewed in Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, (Modern Humanities Research Association, England), 50 (1988).

46. "History, Theory, (Post)Modernity," in Ethics / Aesthetics: Postmodern Positions, ed. Robert Merrill (Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1988).

46a. "History, Theory, (Post)Modernity" reprinted in After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places, ed. Gary Shapiro (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).

47. "The Bounds of Reason: Critical Response," Cervantes, 8 (1988).

48. Review of Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 167 (1988).

49. "The Lines Redrawn," Afterword to Redrawing the Lines: Analytical Philosophy, Deconstruction, and Literary Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Theory and History of Literature, 1989).

50. "The Revolt of the Masses: Ortega's Critique of Modernity" in Ortega y Gasset and the Question of Modernity, ed. Patrick Dust, The Prisma Institute, Hispanic Issues, 1989, pp. 337-68.

50a. La rebelión de las masas: la crítica de Ortega a la modernidad," in Mythopoesis: Literatura, totalidad, ideología, ed. Joan Ramon Resina (Barcelona: Anthropos, 1992), pp. 213-238. Translation of #47.

51. "Immanuel Kant," The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Literary Theory and Criticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 6 cols.

52. "Narration and Totality," The Philosophical Forum, 21 (Spring, 1990).

53. Review of Cornel West, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism," Philosophy and Literature, 14 (Winter, 1990).

54. "Cervantes's Exemplary Subjects," in Cervantes's "Exemplary Novels" and the Adventure of Writing, ed. Michael Nerlich and Nicholas Spadaccini, Hispanic Issues, 6 (Minneapolis: The Prisma Institute, 1989), pp. 49-71.

55. "Aesthetic Liberalism: Kant and the Ethics of Modernity," Revue Internationale de Philosophie, Special issue on Kant's Critique of Judgment, 176 (1991), 10-23.

56. "Secularization and the Disenchantment of the World," in Dialectic and Narrative, ed. Thomas R. Flynn and Dalia Judovitz (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993), pp. 121-137.

57. "Reason and Romance: the Persiles and the Disenchantment of the World," MLN, March 1991.

58. "Allegories of Power," in The Prince in the Tower: Perceptions of La vida es sueño," ed. Frederick A. de Armas (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1993), pp. 15-26.

59. "The Archaeology of desire in Don Quixote," in Quixotic Desire, ed. Ruth El Saffar and Diana Wilson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

60. "The Ethics of Abstraction," in Rereading the New, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), pp. 117-135.

61. Review of Emerson's Modernity and the Example of Goethe, by Gustaaf Van Cromphout, Nineteenth Century Prose, 1991, 82-85.

62. "The Ethics of Enlightenment: Goya and Kant," Philosophy and Literature, 15 (October, 1991), 189-211.

63. "Totality and the Novel," New Literary History, 23 (1992), 607-27.

64. "Orígenes de la Novela," Insula, 538 (October, 1991), special monographic issue, Un Libro Español para el mundo: El "Quijote", 9-11.

65. "The Subject of Control," Atferword to Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain, Hispanic Issues, 7, ed. Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 231-245.

66. "Calderón de la Barca," "Miguel de Cervantes," "Tirso de Molina," and "Lope de Vega." Entries in The International Dictionary of the Theatre (London: Gale Research International, 1994), pp. 155-159, 175-178, 961-963, 999-1003.

67. "History and Modernity in the Spanish Golden Age: Secularization and Literary Self-Assertion in Don Quixote," in Cultural Authority in Early Modern Spain: Continuation and its Alternatives, ed. Marina S. Brownlee and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 209-233.

68. "A crítica da Subjectividade e o Re-encanto do Mundo," in A. Cascardi, J. Hintikka, et. al., Retórica e Comunicaçao," ed. Manuel Maria Carrilho (Lisboa: ASA, 1994), pp. 95-122.

68a. "The Critique of Subjectivity and the Re-Enchantment of the World," Revue International de Philosophie, 21 (1996), 243-263.

69. "Gracián and the Authority of Taste," in Rhetoric and Politics: Baltasar Gracián and the New World Order, ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Hispanic Issues, vol. 14, 1997), pp. 255-283.

70. Review-Essay of Timothy J. Reiss, The Meaning of Literature, in Modern Language Quarterly, 54 (1993), 393-404. "Response to Reiss," Modern Language Quarterly, 54 (1993), 414-418.

71. "La Question de l'Aufklärung," in Le Questionnement et l'Histoire, (Bruxelles: De Boeck, 2000).

72. "Instinct and Object: Subjectivity and Speech-Act in Garcilaso de la Vega," Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 6:2 (1994), special issue entitled "Literatura y subjetividad en la primera modernidad española (siglos XV, XVI, y XVII)," pp. 1-25.

73. "Goya: La dialéctica entre la Ilustración y el arte," in Razón, tradición y modernidad: re-visión de la ilustración hispánica, eds. Francisco La Rubia Prado and Jesús Torrecillas (Madrid: Tecnos, 1996), pp. 53-85.

74. Review of Alan Singer, The Subject as Action: Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics. Modern Fiction Studies, 40 #4 (Winter, 1995), 929-931.

75. Review of John T. Graham, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Life in Ortega y Gasset. Philosophy and Literature, 19 (1995), 374-376.

76. "Ethics and Aesthetics in Joseph Conrad," WHR (Western Humanities Review), 49 (Spring, 1995), 17-35.

77. Review of Andrea Nightingale, Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), Philosophy and Literature, 20 (October, 1996), 527-529.

78. "Mythopoesis: Criticism and Gnosticism in Blumenberg and Bloom," in History of the Human Sciences special volume on Blumenberg, ed. Irving Velody (London: Sage, forthcoming, 1997).

79. Review of Adam Zachary Newton, Narrative Ethics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 16 (February, 1996), pp. 37-39.

80. "Communication and Transformation: Aesthetics and Politics in Kant and Arendt," in Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics, ed. Craig Calhoun and John McGowan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 99-131.

81. "Wittgenstein and Literary Theory," The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 467-69.

82. "The Difficulty of Art," in Thinking Through Art, ed. Alan Singer (Duke University Press in conjunction with boundary 2, vol. 25, Spring, 1998), 35-65.

83. "Romance, Ideology, and Iconoclasm in Cervantes," in Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituents, ed. Anne Cruz and Carroll Johnson (New York: Garland/Hispanic Issues, 1999), pp. 22-42.

84. Review of Jacques Lezra, Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe. Modern Philology (University of Chicago Press).

85. “Aesthetic Reflection and Narrative Form: From Spiritual Biography to Universal History” in Biography: Forms of Publishing Lives, ed. Andreas Schüle (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2001).

86. Review of Matei Calinescu, Rereading. International Studies in Philosophy, 30 #2 (1998), 120-121.

87. “Two Kinds of Knowing in Plato, Cervantes, and Aristotle,” Philosophy and Literature, 24 (2000), 406-423.

87a. “Cervantes, Platón y Aristóteles: Literatura y ‘Phronēsis,’” Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, ed José María Casasayas.

88. Review of Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society. Comparative Literature, 53 (2001).

89. “Philosophy of Culture and Theory of the Baroque,” Filozofski Vesnik, 22 (2000), 87-110.

90. “Marcel Duchamp and the Cusan Idiot’s Spoon” (in Swedish). Hjärnstorm no. 70 (2000) (Stockholm), special issue on Marcel Duchamp.

91. “Don Quijote and the Invention of the Novel,” The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes q.v.

92. “Heidegger, Adorno, in Vztrajanje Romanticizma,” (“Heidegger, Adorno, in Vztrajanje Romanticizma”) Filozofski Vestnik, 23 (2003), 93-102.

92a.. “Heidegger, Adorno, and the Persistence of Romanticism,” in Dialogue and Universalism,

XIII, no. 11-12 (2003), pp. 13-22.

93. “José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)”, A History of Western Aesthetics, vol. 4: XXth Century, ed. Huimin Jin (Beijing: Chinese Social Science Press, forthcoming).

94. “Beyond Castro and Maravall: Interpellation, Mimesis, and the Hegemony of Spanish Culture,” Ideologies of Hispanism, ed. Mabel Moraña (Vanderbilt University Press, Hispanic Issues series, 2004).

95. “Disowning Knowledge: Cavell on Shakespeare,” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Richard Eldridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

96. “Sublimitas y barroco en Calderón,” in Calderón 2000: Homenaje a Kurt Reichenberger en su 80 compleaños, ed. Ignacio Arellano (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2002), 307-391.

97. Review of Aurora Egido, Humanidades y dignidad del hombre en Baltasar Gracián (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad, 2001), Hispanic Review, 41 (2000).

98. “Borges: Mimesis and Modernism,” in Literary Philosophers, ed. Jorge Gracia, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Rodolphe Gasché (New York: Routledge, 2003).

99. “Unbearable Lightness of Books,” in Ignacio Rábago, Instalaciones, Copenhagen, 2004.

100. “Heidegger, Adorno, and the Persistence of Romanticism,” in Dialogue and Universalism,

XIII, no. 11-12 (2003), pp. 13-22.

101. “Hegemonija V Estetski Teoriji” (“Hegemony in Aesthetic Theory” trans. Prevedla Valerija Vendramin), Filozsfski Vestnik, 24 (2003), 7-17. 98. “Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics,” reprinted in The Routledge Companion to Rhetoric, ed. Walter Jost (Routledge, 2003).

102. “Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics,” in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism, ed. Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted (Oxford: Blackewll, 2004), pp. 294-308.

103. “La Belleza Traicionada,” in Teoría del Arte (Universidad de Chile), 12 (2005), 65-78.

104. “Cervantes’ Two Hands,” in Cervantes y su mundo, III, ed. A. Robert Lauer & Kurt Reichenberger, Estudios de Literatura 92. (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2005), pp. 41-60.

105. “Image and Iconoclasm in Don Quijote,” forthcoming in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool, UK).

105a. “Historia e Iconoclasma Moderno en Don Quijote,” Insula, no. 700-701: La Recepción del Quijote en su IV centenario (Madrid: April-May, 2005).

106. “The Genealogy of the Sublime in the Aesthetics of the Baroque,” Hispanic Issues, ed. David Castillo (2005)

107. Review of Ricardo Padrón. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Forthcoming in Hispanic Review.

108. “Comi-tragedia” in Cervantes: Don Quixote and the Genealogy of the ‘Funny Book’” In Cervantes and His Legacy in Fiction. Centre for Hispanic Studies (Hyderabad, India, forthcoming).

109. “Philosophy and the Novel,” in The Oxford Handbook to Phiolosophy and Literature, ed. Richard Eldridge. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

110. “Text and Image After Plato,” forthcoming in Academic Monthly (Shanghai).

111. “The Matter of Memory: Semblance and Blur in Richter and Adorno,” forthcoming in Aesthetic Positions, ed. Peter de Bolla and Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig (Cambridge, UK).

112. “The Implication of Images in the Revival of Aesthetics,” forthcoming in The Revival of Aesthetics, ed. Aleš Erjavec (Cambridge: Scholar’s Press).

113. “Sense and Concept in Aesthetic Theory,” forthcoming in Mediterranean Society for Aesthetics

Work in Progress:

“Tragedy and Philosophy”

“Richter and Adorno”

Cervantes and Politics: Literature between Theory and Practice

INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS, AND PRESENTATIONS

1. 2/80, University of Texas, Austin, "Poetry of the Spanish Baroque"

2. 2/80, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Forms of Theatre in Calderón"

3. 3/80, Columbia University, "Calderón and the Limits of Illusion"

4. 2/81, University of Toronto, "Morality in Calderón and the Baroque," International Symposium on Calderón and the Baroque Tradition

5. 5/81, University of San Diego, "Calderón's Idea of a Theatre"

6. 3/82, "Cervantes and the Picaresque," UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

7. 4/82, "Dostoevsky's Morals," University of Toronto Conference on Literature and Moral Philosophy

8. 11/83, "Perspectivism and the Conflict of Values in Don Quixote," Columbia University

9. 4/83, "Philosophy and the Novel," University of Montreal, Xth International Conference in Aesthetics

10. 11/83, "Deconstruction and Skepticism," New York University Comparative Literature Colloquium

11. 3/84, "Skepticism and Criteria in Literature and Philosophy," Universita di Torino

12. 4/84, "Skepticism and Deconstruction," Cambridge University

13. 4/84, "Morality and Theatre in Calderón," Oxford University,

14. 5/84, "Skepticism and Absorption in the Baroque," University of Edinburgh

15. 12/84, Cervantes Society of America, "Genre Definition and Multiplicity in Con Quixote" (MLA meeting)

16. 4/85, "Ortega y Gasset: Between Philosophy and Literature," Hofstra University

17. 12/85, "Transformations of the Cid," MLA convention

18. 12/85, "From Frankfurt to Wittgenstein," MLA convention

19. 4/86, "Genealogies of Modernism," UCB Comparative Literature Colloquium

20. 12/85, Cervantes Society of America (MLA meeting), "Genre Definition and Multiplicity in Cervantes"

21. 4/86, "The Genealogy of Pragmatism," IAPL conference, University of Washington, Seattle

22. 2/87, "Narration and Modernity," Vanderbilt University

23. 9/87, "Narration and Totality," SUNY, Stony Brook

24. 12/87, "Jürgen Habermas: Modernism versus Postmodernism," MLA convention

25. 12/87 "Cervantes and Lukács," MLA Convention

26. 1/88, "Cervantes and Historical Change," University of Pennsylvania

27. 4/88, "The Politics of Images," IAPL conference, University of Notre Dame

28. 7/88, "Narration and Totality," XIth International Congress in Aesthetics, Nottingham, England

29. 5/88, "What is Comparative Literature?" UCB departmental symposium presentation

30. 5/88, "History, Theory, Postmodernity," IAPL Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence

31. 5/88, "The Foreign Languages at Berkeley," panel presentation on "The Form and Content of Departments"

32. 10/88, University of Washington (Seattle) Colloquium on Philosophy and Literature: "Narration and Totality"

33. 10/88, "The Revolt of the Masses: Ortega's Critique of Modernity," Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Washington, Seattle

34. 2/89, "Narration and Totality (Part II)," Dept. of Rhetoric Colloquium, UC Berkeley

35. 2/89, "The Revolt of the Masses: Ortega's Critique of Modernity," University of Indiana, Bloomington

36. 2/89, "Ortega's Critique of Modernity," Stanford University

37. 4/89, Endowed College Lecture: "Narration and Totality," Williams College

38. 4/89, Geddes Lecture (endowed lecture), Boston University: "Narration and Totality,"

39. 10/89, "Aesthetic Liberalism," American Society for Aesthetics

40. 10/89, Haverford College Distinguished Lecture Series: "Ortega and the Question of Modernity"

41. 10/89, Swarthmore College, Dept. of Philosophy: "The Discourses of Modernity"

42. 10/89, Temple University, Departments of Philosophy and English: "Lukács' Theory of the Novel and the Problem of Modernity"

43. 5/89 "The Disenchantment of the World: Max Weber's Critique of Modernity," IAPL Conference, Emory University

44. 7/89, "Reason and Romance," NEH International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Dartmouth College

45. 3/90, Humanities West (with KQED Radio) "The New and the Old: The Theatre of the Golden Age"

46. 4/90, "The Politics of Skepticism," International Symposium on La vida es sueño, Penn State University

47. 4/90, Seminar on "Rethinking Dualism," IAPL Conference, U.C. Irvine

48. 10/90 "The Ethics of Enlightenment: Goya and Kant," Carleton College

49. 10/90 "The Archaeology of Desire in Don Quixote," University of Minnesota

50. 12/90 "Reason and Romance," MLA Convention (Chicago)

51. 4/91 "Secularization and Literary Self-Assertion in Don Quixote," University of Pennsylvania Colloquium on Cultural Authority: Literary Continuation in Renaissance Spain

52. 12/91, "La Teoría de la Modernidad," Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Barcelona

53. 12/91, "Las Consecuencias de la Modernidad," Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Barcelona

54. 3/92, "The Disenchantment of the World," Departments of English and Philosophy, Trinity University

55. 3/92, "The Re-Enchantment of the World," Departments of English and Philosophy, Trinity University

56. 12/93, "The Language of Value in Conrad," Keynote Address, The Joseph Conrad Society

57. 3/94, "History and Modernity in Golden Age Spain," Duke University, Department of Romance Studies

58. 3/94 "Questioning and History: The Question of Enlightenment," Plenary Address at the conference on Rhetoric and Argumentation, sponsored by the Centre Europeén pour l'Etude de l'Argumentation (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels)

59. 12/94, "Quevedo and the Politics of Anti-Modernism," special session on Quevedo, MLA convention, San Diego.

60. 2/95, "Communication and Transformation in Kant and Arendt," Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

61. 2/95, "Instinct and Object: Subjectivity and Speech-Act in Garcilaso de la Vega," UC Santa Cruz, Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group.

62. 3/95, "Aesthetics and Politics in Kant and Arendt," Centre for Critical Theory, Program in Social and Political Thought, University of Western Ontario.

63. 3/95, "Communication and Transformation in Kant and Arendt," Program in Social and Political Thought, York University (Canada)

64. 5/96, "Beyond Form: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Iconoclasm in Don Quixote," UCLA, invited paper at the conference "Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies."

65. 10/96, "The Authority of Taste in Gracián," Dept. of Literature, UC San Diego.

66. 1/97, "Gracián and the Invention of Taste," Stanford University

67. 2/98, "Humanities at Century's End: Communication and Transformation," UC San Diego

68. 2/98: Yale University, "The Invention of Taste in Gracián"

69. 2/98: UCSD: "Humanities at Century's End: Communication and Transformation"

70. 2/98: University of Chicago: "The Invention of Taste in Gracián"

71. 4/97: ACLA Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, "Aesthetic Qualities Across Media"

72. 10/31 “Response to Arthur Danto on the Future of Art,” UC Berkeley, Townsend Center for the Humanities Forum

73. 8/98 “The Difficulty of Judgment,” XIV International Congress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

74. 11/98 “Aesthetic Reflection and Narrative Form: From Spiritual Biography to Universal History,” University of Heidelberg, Graduierten Kolleg “Religion und Normativität”

75. 3/31/99 “Consequences of Enlightenment: Critical Response,” American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Conference, Asilomar CA.

76. 10/99 “Borges: Mimesis and Modernism,” SUNY Buffalo, Departments of Philosophy and Comparative Literature

77. 6/00 “Tragedy and Sublimity,” University of Umeå, Umeå (Sweden)

78. 6/00 “Philosophy of Culture and Theory of the Baroque,” Society for Aesthetics, National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

79. 9/00 “Sublimitas y barroco en algunas obras de Calderón,” Universidad de Navarra, “Calderón 2000," Pamplona (Spain)

80. 10/00 “Cervantes, Platón y Aristóteles: Literatura y ‘Phronesis,’” IV Congreso Internacional de Cervantistas, Nafpaktos (Greece)

81. 10/00: “The Ends of Art,” American Society for Aesthetics, Reno, NV

82. 6/01: “Aesthetic Agency,” University of Bergen (Norway), Nordic Society for Aesthetics

83. 8/01 IV International Congress of Aesthetics, Tokyo, Japan, Plenary Session: “Heidegger, Adorno, and the Inheritance of Romanticism”

84. 10/01, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) conference, “Not a Laughing Matter: How Don Quixote Became a Funny Book.”

85. 2/02 “Artists and Intellectuals” ARC Panel Presentation, UC Bekeley

86. 3/02 “Cervantean Self-Fashioning: Composition for Two Hands,” University of Tulsa

87. 3/02 Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Honors seminar, University of Tulsa

88. 3/02 Faculty Seminar ”Philosophy of Culture and Theory of the Baroque,” University of Tulsa

89. 3/02 “Body and Voice in ‘Daughters of the Dust,’” University of Copenhagen, EALCALS plenary conference talk

90. 4/02 “Tragedy and Enlightenment,” Dept. of Comparative Literature, Univ. Of Copenhagen

91. 4/02 “Don Juan Tenorio,” seminar, Department of Romance Languages, Univ. Of Copenhagen

92. 11/02 “Hegemony in Aesthetic Theory,” Slovenian Society for Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

93. 12/02 Wittgenstein and the Middle Voices,” MLA Annual Convention New York, NY

94. 06/03 “Beauty Betrayed,” King’s College, Cambridge (UK)

95. 2/04 “Arendt on Action; cf. Aristotle on Tragedy,” Stanford University

96. 6/04 “Image, Iconoclasma, y Modernidad en Don Quijote” Barcelona, Forum 2004

97. 5/05 “Image and Iconoclasm in Don Quijote,” University of Oregon, Eugene. May, 2005.

98. 6/06 “Text and Image After Plato,” Sichuan Normal University, Chinese Society for Aesthetics and IAA conference, Chengdu, China, June 2006.

99. 09/06 “Sense and Concept in Aesthetic Theory.” Plenary address, III Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics” (Portorož).