Inventing Agency

Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and ancien directeur de programme of the Collège international de philosophie, Paris, France. Her previous publications include The Imposition of Form (1987), Lines of Thought (1996), In the Place of Language (2009), Why Philosophy, Intro., Ed. and Contributor, PMLA (2016), and, co-edited with Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation’hood (1997), as well as many articles on 17th through 20th-century philosophy and literature.Eloy LaBrada is an instructor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he specializes in the philosophy of gender and sexuality, social ontology, analytic feminism, and the history of modern philosophy and literature. His articles have appeared in PMLA (2016) and JNT (2016).

• IntroductionClaudia Brodsky (Princeton University, USA) and Eloy LaBrada (Middlebury College, USA)PART ONE. SUBJECTS 1. I Think, Therefore I FeelMarshall J. Brown (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)2. Some Dark Interiority. A Brief Conceptual HistoryEduardo Lerro (Princeton University, USA)3. Unsexing Subjects: Marie de Gournay on the Ontology of “Sex”Eloy LaBrada (Middlebury College, USA)PART TWO. CAUSALITIES 4. Shadows on the Wall of Reason: Diderot before Fragonard David Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA /Sebald Chair, University of East Anglia, UK)5. Timely Plot and Unplotted Time: Action and Experience Before and After HegelJohn Park (Princeton University, USA) 6. Unexpected yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox ReceptionKaren Feldman (University of California at Berkeley, USA)7. The Causal Economy of the Subject in Kant, Hegel and Marx: Being in Time an ExternalizationIrina Simova (Princeton University, USA)PART THREE. JUDGMENT 8. The Man Within the Breast: Sympathy, Deformity, and Moral Subjectivity in Adam Smith’sThe Theory of Moral SentimentsPaul Kelleher (Emory University, USA)9. Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding’s Joseph AndrewsVivasvan Soni (Northwestern University, USA)10. The Linguistic Condition of Judgment: Kant’s “Common Sense”Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University, USA)Index

Brown compares these poets to a range of mostly Romantic writers and thinkers, with all the graceful erudition to which his readers have become accustomed.