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>From: Wolfram Schmidgen <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Eighteenth-Century Multitudes (9/15/05; ASECS, 3/30/06-4/2/06)
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>ASECS Panel, Montreal 2006
>"Eighteenth-Century Multitudes"
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>Current developments in our field force us to rethink widely accepted
>paradigms in eighteenth-century studies. Dror Wahrmanís The Making of
>the Modern Self, for example, fundamentally revises our assumptions
>about the singularity of modern forms of identity. Recent theorizing
>about ëmultitudeí by Toni Negri, Michael Hardt, Paolo Virno and others
>has widened the possibilities for reimagining agency and identity
>further. This panel wants to take advantage of these developments and
>explore the role of the plural, the multiple, and the collective in
>eighteenth-century culture and history. If the philosophical concern
>with multitude originated in seventeenth-century thinkers such as Hobbes
>and Spinoza, what other philosophers or philosophies might be
>preoccupied with this concept? Is there an aesthetic of multiplicity?
>What are the manifestations of the collective or of collectivity in
>eighteenth-century culture? How does the crowd and ideas of crowding
>affect the eighteenth-century imagination? What are the promises (and
>limits) of using multitude or hybridity as methodological categories in
>our approaches to the eighteenth century? The panel hopes to explore
>these and related questions from a variety of disciplinary vantage
>points, including philosophy, history, science studies, and literature.
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>Please submit paper proposals by fax or email to:
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>Wolfram Schmidgen
>Department of English
>Washington University
>St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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>Fax: 314 935 7461
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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>The deadline is September 15.
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