Political Essay Group | Reading Group 1
Friday 7 February 2025, 4.30pm - 6pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
All welcome
Come if you’re curious! This term we’re reading a selection of essays from about the last fifty years, but we’ll try to expand our sense of the contemporary form in future.
This week we’re reading the essays listed below. They can be found easily via googling or on solo but email us if you want to be added to our email list–we’ll email ahead of each reading group with the readings attached! You don’t need to have read all the essays for each week.
Theodor Adorno – ‘The Essay as Form’
Edward Said – ‘The Future of Criticism’ (Vol. 99, No. 4, French Issue (Sep., 1984), pp. 951-958 (8 pages) Published By: The Johns Hopkins University Press)
Brian Dillon – first bit of Essayism (Published 7 June 2017, French paperback )
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