Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities- Book Conversation- How to Research Like a Dog by and with Aaron Schuster
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
How to Reseach Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science (MIT,2024) is Aaron Schuster's latest book. Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer, who lives in Amsterdam. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (MIT, 2016), and co-author of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (University of Chicago, 2020). He is the editor of e-flux Notes.
In How to Research Like a Dog, Arron Schuster takes Franz Kafka's short story 'Investigations of a Dog' as a springboard to propose different ways of doing philosophy and research. To research like or as if a dog, invites us to sniff, bark, etc., in general take on canine attributes. The book engages with philosophers/writers/thinkers from Plato to Flaubert, Lispector, and Lacan and puts the dog in dialogue with psychoanalytic theory, the history of philosophy, and modern literature.
Aaron Schuster will be in conversation about his book with Professor Heike Bauer (Facutly of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birkbeck) and Professor Maria Aristodemou (School of Law, Birkbeck). This event will be moderated by Professor Elena Loizidou (School of Law, Birkbeck)
Contact name: Elena Loizidou
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