Daniel Heller-Roazen will discuss his new book, Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons (Princeton University Press/Zone Books, 2021). From literature to legal codes and religious rites, diversely missing, diminished and uncounted persons play complex yet also constant roles. These roles will be the focus of the lecture, which, taking its cues from a few exemplary cases, will explore the ways in which somebody can become a “nobody.

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Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is one of the translators into English of work by Giorgio Agamben. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Comparative Literature Program