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SUMMARY:Romanticism and the Experience of Experiment - Professor Robert Mi
 tchell (Department of English\, Duke University)
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CONTACT:Ross Wilson
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Robert Mitchell (Professor of English\, Duke Un
 iversity\, joining us via video conference) addresses the question of Roma
 nticism and experimentation by thinking about how Romantic understandings 
 of experiment relate to critiques of scientific experimentation\, especial
 ly those critiques developed by authors such as Max Horkheimer and Theodor
  Adorno\, Martin Heidegger\, Hans Blumenberg\, Hannah Arendt\, and feminis
 t scholars of science\, such as Sandra Harding.  Discussing the shared pre
 mises of these critiques of modern scientific experimentation\, Prof. Mitc
 hell focuses especially on Hannah Arendt's account of the ways in which mo
 dern scientific experimentation subtly altered the concept of truth. Arend
 t's account then serves to illuminate the specific way in which the Romant
 ics experimented with the term experiment (with an emphasis on Wordsworth 
 and Coleridge). Reading available _soon_ in the Dropbox here: http://www.c
 rassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/rethinking-life
LOCATION:CRASSH\, S1\, ground floor\, Alison Richard Building
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