This lecture will be given by Antón Barba-Kay, the Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College from 2021-2024 (BA, St. John’s College; BA University of Cambridge; Ph.D. University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought).
Antón comes to Deep Springs from the Catholic University of America, where he was an Associate Professor of Philosophy. The bulk of his research has concentrated on the subjects of recognition and aesthetics in nineteenth-century German philosophy. His essays have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Hegel-Studien, Hegel Bulletin, and Review of Metaphysics, among others. He also writes about contemporary culture and digital technology for a general audience (The Point, The Hedgehog Review, LitHub, etc.). He’s recently completed A Web of Our Own Making—a book about what the internet is and what difference it makes, published by Cambridge University Press.
Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.