Faculty

Paul Kottman is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of Program in Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research.

He is the author of Love as Human Freedom (Stanford University Press, 2017); Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009); A Politics of the Scene (Stanford University Press, 2008). He is also the editor of The Art of Hegel's Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History (Fink, 2017); The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy After Early Modernity (Fordham, 2017); and Philosophers on Shakespeare (Stanford University Press, 2009). Paul edits the book series, Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities (Stanford University Press).

PhD 2000, University of California at Berkeley

Books and Edited Volumes

Love as Human Freedom, Stanford University Press, 2017

The Art of Hegel's Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History (Fink, 2018)

The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity (Fordham University Press, 2017)

Disinheriting the Globe: Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. A Politics of the Scene, Stanford University Press, 2008. Philosophers on Shakespeare, editor, Stanford University Press, 2009.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Preface” to Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

“Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (forthcoming)

“Bliss Unrevealed: The Trial in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale,” in Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, Performance, edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton and Lowell Gallagher (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)   Review of David Schalkwyk, Shakespeare, Love and Language in Shakespeare Quarterly (forthcoming)   Review of Blair Hoxby, What was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon, in Theatre Journal, (forthcoming)   “Learning to Notice: From Chauvet Cave to Plato’s Cave,” On Plato and the Moving Image, edited by Michael Weinmann (Brill, forthcoming)   Review of Alberto Siani, Morte dell’arte, libertà del soggetto in Critique, September 2018   The Sexual Origins of Patriarchy,” in Aeon, April 30, 2018   “Self-uncertainty as self-realization,” in Centers of Reflection: Literature, Philosophy and Thought, edited by Tzachi Zamir, series edited by Richard Eldridge (Oxford University Press, 2017)   “Art and Necessity: On the Critical Practice of Lessing’s Laokoon, and its Implications” in Rethinking Lessing’s ‘Limits’: New Approaches to the Laokoon, edited by Avi Lifschitz & Michael Squire (Cambridge University Press, 2017)   “Review of Rocco Rubini, The Other Renaissance” in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Volume 37, no. 2, 2016   “What Can the Human Sciences Say about Freedom Today?” in Psychoanalysis and Politics, special issue of Política común, Volume 9, 2016

"What is Shakespearean Tragedy?" in Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, Oxford University Press, 2016.

"Duel," in Early Modern Theatricality, Oxford University Press, 2014

"Why think about Shakespearean Tragedy Today?" in Claire McEachern (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

"Defying the Stars: Tragic Love as the Struggle for Freedom in Romeo and Juliet," Shaksepeare Quarterly Vol. 63(1), 2012.

"No Greater Powers than we can Contradict," Criticism (Special Issue on Shakespeare and Phenomenology), Vol. 54(3), 2012.

"Novus Ordo Saeclarum: Hannah Arendt on Revolutionary Spirit, in Graham Hammill and Julia Lupton (eds.) Political Theology in Early Modernity, University of Chicago Press, 2012.

"Slipping on Banana Peels, Tumbling into Wells: Philosophy and Comedy," Diacritics, Vol. 38(4), 2008.

Professor Kottman's reviews and additional articles can be found at The Los Angeles Review of Books, Constellations, and other publications. Please visit his personal website.