English Department Faculty

Robert Lehman

Associate Professor

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • The Persistence of the Aesthetic: Modernism and the Afterlives of Taste (in progress)
  • Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason (Stanford University Press, 2016).

Edited Collections

  • Co-editor with Jess Keiser. Forum on Robert Pippin鈥檚 Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts. Syndicate (forthcoming)
  • Forum on Nathan Brown鈥檚 Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique. Syndicate (Fall, 2021).

Articles

  • 鈥淎rtworks and Persons.鈥 Philosophy and Literature (forthcoming).
  • 鈥淐riticism and Judgment.鈥 ELH 87.4 (2020): 1105-1132.
  • 鈥淥riginal Nonsense: Joyce, Duchamp, and Modernism鈥檚 Genius.鈥 Modernism/Modernity 27.2 (2020): 339-360.
  • 鈥淣ovelty, Non-Conceptuality, and Aesthetic Experience.鈥 diacritics (forthcoming).
  • 鈥淏ack to the Future: Late Modernism in J. G. Ballard鈥檚 The Drowned World.鈥 Journal of Modern Literature 41.4 (2018, forthcoming).
  • 鈥淟ingering: Pleasure, Desire, and Life in Kant鈥檚 Critique of Judgment.鈥 Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32.2 (2018): 217-242.
  • 鈥淔ormalism, Mere Form, and Judgment.鈥 New Literary History 48.2 (Spring 2017): 245-263.
  • 鈥淏eautiful Things: Bruce Nauman鈥檚 Carousel.鈥 Postmodern Culture 26.3 (May 2016): n.p.
  • 鈥淟etters for the Blind.鈥 SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 45.1 (Spring 2016): 81-97.
  • 鈥淎bstract Pleasures: Romanticism and Finitism in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.鈥 Modern Philology 111.2 (November 2013): 308-328.
  • 鈥淭he Persistence of the Aesthetic.鈥 Frakcija: Performing Arts Magazine 68-69 (2013): 76-83.
  • 鈥淏etween the Science of the Sensible and the Philosophy of Art: Finitude in Alain Badiou鈥檚 Inaesthetics.鈥 Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 15.2 (Summer 2010): 171-185.
  • 鈥淔inite States: Toward a Kantian Theory of the Event.鈥 diacritics 39.1 (Spring 2009): 61-74.
  • 鈥淓liot鈥檚 Last Laugh: The Dissolution of Satire in The Waste Land.鈥 Journal of Modern Literature 32.2 (Winter 2009): 65-79.
  • 聽鈥淎llegories of Rending: Killing Time with Walter Benjamin.鈥 New Literary History 39.2 (Spring 2008): 233-250.

Book Reviews

  • 鈥淎ttachment to What?鈥 Response to Rita Felski鈥檚 Hooked: Art and Attachment. nonsite.org (Spring 2021).
  • 鈥淎esthetic Unconsolation.鈥 Response to Paul North鈥檚 The Yield: Kafka鈥檚 Atheological Reformation (with a reply by the author). Syndicate (Winter 2021).
  • Review of Giorgio Agamben, Taste, trans. Cooper Francis (New York: Seagull Books, 2017). Critical Inquiry (2019): 812-813.
  • Review of Eli Friedlander, Expressions of Judgment: An Essay on Kant鈥檚 Aesthetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). Critical Inquiry 42.1 (2015): 221-223.
  • 鈥淏eauty That Must Die.鈥 Review of Martin H盲gglund, Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). Theory & Event 16.1 (2013): n.p.
  • Review of Lecia Rosenthal, Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011). Modernist Cultures 7.1 (May 2012): 139-144.
  • 鈥淚nfinite Conversation.鈥 Review of Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010). Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 53.1 (Winter 2011): 152-157.
  • 鈥淭oward a Speculative Realism.鈥 Review of Quentin Meillassoux, Apr猫s la finitude: Essai sur la n茅cessit茅 de la contingence. (Paris: 脡ditions du Seuil, 2006). Theory & Event 11.1 (2008): n.p.

Other Publications

  • 聽鈥淓ntwining Literature and History.鈥 Stanford University Press Blog (2016).