Date:
Friday, February 18, 2022, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
2/18: Harvard Dept. of Philosophy 'Minorities and Philosophy' Colloquium Lecture:
Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University)
The talk format consists of a lecture followed by a Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry.
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Abstract:
Du Bois and the Idea of Beauty:
In this talk, Prof. Gooding-Williams explains Du Bois’s conception of beauty and lays out, in a preliminary way, his phenomenology of the experience of beauty. Du Bois’s notion of beauty, he argues, is a conceptual distillation of his phenomenology.
