Andrew Cole
Princeton University, English, Faculty Member
- English, Critical Theory, Medieval Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Hegel, and 15 moreMarxism, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Political Economy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Historical Materialism, Dialectical Materialism, Philosophy of Karl Marx, Periodization, Postmodernism, Cultural Theory, Literary Theory, German Studies, and Classicsedit
- Andrew Cole is the Wilson Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Director of the Gauss Seminars in ... moreAndrew Cole is the Wilson Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University. https://english.princeton.edu/people/andrew-cole
[Joined Academia.edu in Feb., 2013]edit
A conversation about mutual interests between a critical theorist and an architect--respectively, Andrew Cole and Julian Rose (see http://www.formlessfinder.com/).
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The spatial dialectic is an important familiar phrase in critical writing, but it nonetheless needs continued elaboration and more working out as a concept. This essay proposes some fundamentals for thinking a dialectic that is... more
The spatial dialectic is an important familiar phrase in critical writing, but it nonetheless needs continued elaboration and more working out as a concept. This essay proposes some fundamentals for thinking a dialectic that is unrelentingly spatial and unapologetically material. It first seeks to spatialize temporal logics like contradiction through the Hegelian concept of “material contradiction,” which is outside of time, language, and consciousness. It then tries to ponder the built environment as composed of overlapping material contradictions, multiple sites of praxes—past, present, and future—whence a spatial dialectic issues.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Architecture, Marxism, Ideology, and 14 moreContinental Philosophy, Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Architectural Theory, Fredric Jameson, Dialectical Materialism, Jean Paul Sartre, Ideology Critique, Historical Materialism, Henri Lefebvre, Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, and Spatiality
This talk suggests that Hegel’s philosophy of the concept is also a philosophy of the geometric figure, a demonstration of conceptuality by other means. Neither images nor symbols, Hegel’s figures—primarily, circles and triangles—initiate... more
This talk suggests that Hegel’s philosophy of the concept is also a philosophy of the geometric figure, a demonstration of conceptuality by other means. Neither images nor symbols, Hegel’s figures—primarily, circles and triangles—initiate and "picture" the movement of thought, and are thus "dialectical images" in a sense different from the common acceptation of that phrase.
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From "A Questionnaire on Monuments"
Research Interests: American Studies, Art History, Race and Racism, Southern Studies (U.S. South), History and Memory, and 15 morePolitical Violence and Terrorism, Cultural Landscapes, Civil Rights, Southern History, Protest, Social and Collective Memory, American Civil War, African American History, African American Studies, Georgia, Protest and resistance, Monuments, History of Georgia, Cemetery Sculpture and Monuments, and Charlottesville, Va
This essay appears in Artforum.
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This review appears in Critical Inquiry.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and 11 moreMarxism, Cultural Theory, Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory, Jacques Lacan, Philosophy of Karl Marx, Freud and Lacan, Dialectical Materialism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Dialectics, and Freudian Psychoanalysis
This is my contribution to October's "Questionnaire on Materialisms" in which I, very briefly, put Jane Bennett's vibrant materialism into dialectical perspective.
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This essay appears in PMLA. Uploaded Dec. 27, 2015
Research Interests: Critical Theory, German Studies, Political Economy, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and 21 morePolitical Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Marxism, Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory, Hegel, Philosophy of Karl Marx, Marxist theory, Plotinus, Dialectical Materialism, Dialectic, G.W.F. Hegel, Historical Materialism, 19th-century German philosophy, Karl Marx, Periodization, Marxist Literary Theory, Dialectics, and Dialectics In Hegel
University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, German Studies, Political Economy, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and 19 morePolitical Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Political Theory, Marxism, Medieval Studies, Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory, Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy of Karl Marx, Marxist theory, Plotinus, G.W.F. Hegel, Historical Materialism, 19th-century German philosophy, Karl Marx, Periodization, and Marxist Literary Theory
This essay appears in Artforum.
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This essay appears in The Minnesota Review.