George Mather
DPhil Candidate
New College
| Thesis Title | Unlimited, Inc: Adorno, Derrida, and the Infinite Task of Criticism |
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Supervisors |
Dr David Dwan, Professor Laura Marcus, Professor Stephen Mulhall |
| Research Interests | The interrelation of literature and philosophy; the political and social significance of critique; the institutional history of literary criticism; Anglo-American and Russian formalisms; twentieth-century poetics; historicism and critiques of historicism; American modernisms; British and American lyric post-1945. I have broad interests in a range of theorists and philosophers across the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly German and French thinkers from Kant and Hegel through to Alain Badiou and Catherine Malabou. |
| Doctoral Research | My research centres on the work of T.W. Adorno (1903-1969) and Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), and specifically the under-researched intersection of literary criticism, mathematics and philosophy. It argues that literary reading is bound up with a particular understanding of the nature of infinity, investigates the consequences of that understanding for literary criticism and critical theory, and considers the possibility of alternatives. |
