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Dr Robert Lucas Scott
Robert Lucas Scott is a Research Fellow working on topics in literature, philosophy, and critical theory. His current project is on the philosopher Gillian Rose.
Academic interests
Rob鈥檚 new project is on the late British philosopher and critical theorist Gillian Rose. Entitled The Search for Style, it aims to reconstruct Rose鈥檚 intellectual development with attention to her engagements with literary critical questions and her own experiments with literary form. Among other topics, it will explore the ethics of representation, the drama of misrecognition, and the agon of authorship. Rob is also a coeditor of a volume of Rose鈥檚 lectures on the Frankfurt School, entitled Marxist Modernism.
His first monograph, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique, is forthcoming in March 2025. Through a reading of Hegel, it explores the importance of experience for a theory and practice of critical reading.
His other research interests include continental philosophy, literary theory, English Romanticism, lyric poetry, the essay as form, the Bible and Biblical hermeneutics, and Marx and Marxism. He is also interested in philosophical conceptions of the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Degrees obtained
- BA, University of Exeter.
- MA, University of Sussex.
- PhD, Cantab.
Biography
Robert Lucas Scott is a Research Fellow at 麻豆原创. He has a BA in English from the University of Exeter, and a MA in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Sussex. He completed his PhD in English at Cambridge in 2022.
He teaches papers on Lyric; The Ethical Imagination; English Literature and its Contexts (1870 to the Present); History and Theory of Literary Criticism; and Practical Criticism and Critical Practice.
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Publications, links and resources
Books
- Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique. University of Chicago Press, March 2025.
- Rose, Gillian. Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Edited with Gordon Finlayson, with an afterword by Martin Jay. Verso Books, August 2024.
Articles
- 鈥楾he Anxiety of Beginning.鈥 Thesis Eleven. Special issue on the work of Gillian Rose, edited by Michael Lazarus and Daniel Lopez (forthcoming).
- 鈥樷淭he Letter Kills, but the Spirit Gives Life鈥: Letters on the Spirit and the Letter of Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy.鈥 Critical Horizons, August 2023, pp. 266鈥281.
- 鈥楾he Limits of Recognition.鈥 Angelaki, 27(6), November 2022, pp. 21鈥30.
- 鈥楽uffering and the Feeling of Suffering in Marx鈥檚 Capital.鈥 Textual Practice, 36(1), June 2020, pp. 76鈥93.
Reviews
- 鈥楶ostcritique, or, The Cultural Logic of Capitalist Realism鈥, review of Robert T. Tally Jr., For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism. Los Angeles Review of Books, 14 September 2022.
- Review of Bysshe Inigo Coffey, Shelley鈥檚 Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song. Review of English Studies, January 2022.
- Annual reviews of all scholarship on eighteenth-century poetry for the Years Work in English Studies (2019, 2020, 2021).
