Nathan Brown : Conference Introduction
Channel: pmilat
Date: 2014-07-02

Organizer's introduction for  "SOPHISTRY - The Powers of the False" at MaMa, Zagreb [June 27-29,2014]

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Our symposium will take up sophistry not only as a matter of historical concern but also contemporary contestation: as one way to think through not only the relation between the true and the false, but also the "ancient" and the "modern," not only the philosophical past but also the future of philosophy.

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Nathan Brown writes on modern philosophy, experimental poetry, and 20th century literature. His first book, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in Spring 2014. He is currently working on two book projects: one on the relation between rationalism and empiricism in contemporary French philosophy and another on the problem of measure in philosophy and science. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Davis.

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