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Can We Work Towards a Better Future?
Holly Case, Brown University
February 15, 2018 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm · 301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
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What happens when the political imagination fails? Can we work past a failure of imagination, or should we ‘call it by its real name,’ namely a confrontation with reality? Do we have to be able to imagine the shape of something in order to realize it? Is it time for a new philosophy of history?