OSU Lecturer Turns to 18th-Century Philosophy to Understand Today's War

Friday, March 26, 2010

(March 26, 2010, STILLWATER, Okla.) – Professor David L. Clark, of McMaster University in Ontario, will lecture on “Kant’s Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 1 in Room 108 of the Noble Research Center at Oklahoma State University.

“Dr. Clark will address the concerns many educators have about their ability to lead students during a time when our culture seems to have directed itself solely toward the perpetuation of war,” said Martin Wallen, an English professor at OSU.

Clark currently is researching 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s last published writings. Kant is best known for the Critique of Practical Reason, considered one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.

Clark is an associate member of the Health Studies Program at McMaster. He has been a visiting professor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting fellow at the Center for Humanities at Washington University.

He is co-editor of the The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, which is the only journal to publish critical essays that explore pedagogy and its relation to a wide variety of political, social, cultural and economic issues.

The lecture is free and open to the public and is part of the Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Series in the College of Arts & Sciences. To learn more, phone (405) 744-9474 or visit http://english.okstate.edu.