[Reader-list] Reanimating Romanticism: Lecture by Nikolas Kompridis on 6 January 2016 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*Reanimating Romanticism *

by *Nikolas Kompridis*





Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 4 pm
                              RSVP

CSDS Seminar Room,
                                                 Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
                                                 Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 3.30 pm
                              email: jaya at csds.in





For most of the recent century, romanticism has variously identified with
repressive forms of communitarianism and nationalism, with kitsch and
cultural conservatism, and with a dangerous aestheticization of politics.
Antimodern, antidemocratic, quietistic, narcissistic, masculinist, and
effeminate –the list of romanticism’s purported sins is very long indeed.
Given these various sins, what can explain the resurgent interest in
romanticism today? What does it signal? Perhaps, it signals that we are not
as far removed from romanticism as we have believed. What if, the speaker
will claim even more radically, that rather than preceding modernism,
romanticism succeeds it – succeeds it not just in time, but succeeds where
modernism – and postmodernism – have failed?



*Nikolas Kompridis* is Research Professor in Philosophy and Political
Thought, and the Director of the Institute for Social Justice at the
Australian Catholic University. He is the author of *Critique and
Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past and Future*, *The Aesthetic Turn
in Political Thought*, and *Philosophical Romanticism*, as well as many
papers on various topics in philosophy and political theory.

Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai