| The Erotikon symposium brought together a stellar group of intellectuals to discuss, debate, and celebrate the nature, history, and power of eros through its manifold embodiments in the cultural arts. The symposium inspired the book Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern now available from the University of Chicago Press. Below are selections from the presentations at the Erotikon symposium held at the University of Chicago in March of 2001. |
 Martha Nussbaum“People as Fictions: Proust and the Ladder of Love”
Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. Her many books also include Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education and Upheavals of Thought : The Intelligence of Emotions. She is co-editor of The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Mark Strand“The Couple”
Mark Strand is the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and a former poet laureate of the United States. His last book of poems, Blizzard of One, won the Pulitzer Prize. His other books of poetry include Dark Harbor, The Continuous Life, Selected Poems, The Story of Our Lives, and Reasons for Moving.
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 Philippe Roger“All Love Told: Barthes and the Novel”
Philippe Roger is a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the editor in chief of Critique, the author of numerous books on French history and culture, and a member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. The University of Chicago Press recently published his book The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism. You may read the introduction and an excerpt on the anti-American uses of Tocqueville.
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 Robert B. Pippin“The Erotic Nietzsche: Philosophers without Philosophy”
Robert B. Pippin is Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His latest book is The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath. He is also the author of Henry James and Modern Moral Life and Modernism As a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture.
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