CSP Event: Professor John Russon

King's Event

CSP Event: Professor John Russon

March 22, 2010

The University of King’s College and the Contemporary Studies Programme are pleased to announce an upcoming event with the University of Guelph’s  John Russon.  

Professor Russon will deliver a paper entitled “The Project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” on Monday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall (2nd floor, New Academic Building, 6350 Coburg Road.)
 
John Russon received his Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 1990 and was a post-doctoral fellow in Classics at Harvard University. He has held teaching appointments at both of those institutions as well as Acadia University, Pennsylvania State University, Stony Brook University, Boston College and the University of Guelph, where he was recently named Presidential Distinguished Professor.

Professor Russon is the author of The Self and Its Body in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (University of Toronto Press, 1997) and Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology (Indiana University Press, 2004.) He has also authored the book Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis and the Elements of Everyday Life (State University of New York Press, 2003) which was awarded the Broadview Press/Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2005. Some of Professor Russon’s books will be available for purchase at the King’s Co-Operative Bookstore.

For more information on this event, please contact Alison Lang at (902) 422-1271, ext. 136, or at alison.lang@ukings.ns.ca.