This seminar will bear on a little-known variety of interpretation: kledonomancy, or divination on the basis of chance hearing (and overhearing). The oldest known examples stretch back to the literatures of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean; but modernity also offers its own models, of which the Freudian slip is perhaps the most important. Moving among cases drawn from different cultures and epochs, the seminar will probe the questions raised by such practices of reading.

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.
 

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Sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Comparative Literature Program