Vortrag
Freitag, 15.6.2018, 16:15h

Carey Harrison

New York

Beauty in the Classroom

Is aesthetics, debated in the ancient world and later developed in Enlightenment Germany as a staple of philosophy, still relevant to critical discourse? Can we speak the word “beauty” in the classroom? If so, what does it mean? If not, what have we lost?

Carey Harrison was born in London during the Blitz, the Luftwaffe’s bombing onslaught, and as soon as the war ended he was taken to America, where he has lived, on and off, for the past 74 years. The off periods have coincided with his British education, at Harrow School and Cambridge, and a teaching post at Essex University. He has subsequently taught Comparative Literature at Cornell, at UC San Diego, at UT Austin, at the Florida Institute of Technology, and for the past 20 years at the City University of New York. He is the author of 16 novels and over 200 plays and scripts for TV, theatre, radio, and film. His work has been shown in 37 countries, and translated into 13 languages. His novels won him a Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2016/17.

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