I will be responding to Sloterdijk's leçon at the Collège de France, posing a question about what it means to take possession of the earth, and a question about the modern citizen's obligations in the era of globalization.
Robert Pogue Harrison
Robert Pogue Harrison is Professor of French and Italian Literature at Stanford University and an essayist. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007. In 2013, he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française.
I am a professor of French & Italian literature and culture at Stanford, author of 5 books, all of which have been translated into French (by Flammarion and Le Pommier). I gave a course at the College de France in May 2010, invited by Carlo Ossola and Yves Bonnefoy .