On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian punk collective called Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the…
Colin Jager
Colin Jager is professor of English and director of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University in the USA. A scholar of British Romanticism, religion, and secularism, Jager is the author of two academic monographs, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (2007) and Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age (2015) and of articles on romanticism, religion, cognitive science, and other topics, published in MLQ, ELH, Public Culture, Qui Parle, and elsewhere. At Rutgers, he regularly teaches courses on poetry and poetics, secularism, religion, literary theory, and romantic literature. In fall 2018 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Lancaster University in England. He is at work on two projects: the first is on Romanticism and political possibility; the second is on aesthetics and religion, with the working title On Not Being Reconciled: Literature, Religion, and Selfhood.
Hope, tragedy, and prophecy
It is hard not to be convinced by Akeel Bilgrami’s careful, patient, and generous exposition in “Secularism: Its Content and…
Soul-making and careless steps
For once, practice actually lags behind theory. In their very interesting post on “Reconceiving the secular and the practice of…
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
Colin Jager’s reading of the British romantics places them at the center of debates about religion, secularism, and pluralism today.…
Summer reading: Part I
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…
Secular brooding, literary brooding
What's so bad about heteronomous thinking, anyway? Stathis Gourgouris has used the term in several posts here on The Immanent…
Closure at critique?
Is critique secular? This is the question posed by Chris Nealon on this blog, and by the panel at Berkeley…
A story to tell
Stories, at least good stories, are full of details that demand time and space in a narrative. They are worth…