What Literature Can Teach the Natural Sciences
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Apr 04, 2011
from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM |
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| Where | Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville |
| Contact Name | GlyptusAnn Grider Jones |
| Contact Phone | 502-852-8811 |
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In a lecture entitled, "A Call to Humility: Literary Statesmanship against American Hubris," leading political scholar Patrick Deneen will discuss how major literary figures including Henry Adams, Wendell Berry and Mark Twain offer correctives to some more extreme modern tendencies in science and technology.
About the Guest Lecturer
Patrick J. Deneen is Associate Professor of Government and holds the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair in Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. His interests include ancient political thought, American political thought, democratic theory, religion and politics and literature and politics.
In 2006, Deneen became the founding director of "The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy," an initiative that considers America's founding principles and their roots in the Western philosophical and religious traditions.
He is the author of The Odyssey of Political Theory (2000) and Democratic Faith (2005), as well as co-editor of a book entitled Democracy's Literature (2005). He is currently working on a book examining the concept of the division of labor in Western political thought.
Deneen was the recipient of the A.P.S.A.'s Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy in 1995. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgetown he taught from 1997-2005 at Princeton University, where he held the Laurence S. Rockefeller Preceptorship. From 1995-1997 he was Special Assistant and principal Speechwriter for Joseph Duffey, Director of the United States Information Agency.