David Ferris

12.30 – 2.00pm | Tuesday 8 March 2011
Graham Wallas Room (A550), Fifth Floor, Old building, LSE

Speaker
David Ferris, Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder

Chair
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art, University of Reading

In this talk, David Ferris will examine the use and uselessness of art with respect to its political significance. The talk will focus on two almost contemporary works, Benjamin’s ‘The Work of art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility’, and Heidegger’s ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’, including the different, evolving versions of each of these works.