A genealogy and a practicum. The course will explore the varieties of experience from Montaigne and Bacon to Dewey and Agamben, with attention to epistemology and aesthetics, science and religion; readings will guide a series of practical experiments in the transfiguration and/or instauration of knowledge, and of the classroom as a home for it. Our shared project will be to imagine how humanistic inquiry might hold itself open to the demands of a concept that refuses concepts.

By application. Please send 250 words explaining your interest in the course to [email protected] by Monday, January 26.