Paul North, Professor of German at Yale University and Co-editor of CAPITAL: Vol 1 | Source | Professor of German and Head of John Edwards College at Yale University
Paul North, Professor of German at Yale University and Co-editor of CAPITAL: Vol 1
Paul North is the Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. Paul writes and teaches in the tradition of critical theory, emphasizing Jewish thought, emancipatory strains in the history of philosophy, and European literatures. He has written books on the concept of distraction, on Franz Kafka, and on likeness in culture and thought. He is a co-editor along with Paul Reitter to the forthcoming latest English translation Marx Capital (Vol. 1) from Princetown University Press. Additionally, he is writing a monograph entitled “The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital.” He co-edits the book series IDIOM: thinkingwritingtheory at Fordham University Press and co-directs the international exchange, Critical Theory in the Global South, in collaboration with faculty at the Universidad Metropolitana de Sciencias de la Educación in Santiago, Chile.
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Yale University: “The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation”
Paul North is a Professor of Germanic Language and Literature at Yale. He has written numerous articles and books, including The Problem of Distraction. He is also co-editor of IDIOM: inventing writing theory, a book series at Fordham University Press. Episode March 30, 2016
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Current Genres of Fate - 3 Quarks Daily
In these monthly posts I will survey the landscape of “fateful thinking,” as we glimpse it on the moons orbiting old Europe today. The premise will be that in politics, culture, academia, medicine, economics, and private life, among other regions of experience, we—those in charge and those charged up and those under…
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Current Genres of Fate: Fate's Epic Side - 3 Quarks Daily
—because despite being enlightened, civilized, advanced, and free, we are trapped— by Paul North In the 1930s a Hungarian psychiatrist, Leopold Szondi, began to think that families predetermine the lives of their members, before he was deported to Bergen-Belsen because his family was Jewish. Through a special negotiation he and other intellectuals were released and…
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