Occasional Papers
On Politics and Literature
Japanese writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburô Ôe delivered the first in a series of lectures established at the Center for Japanese Studies to honor political theorist Masao Maruyama.
In “The Language of Masao Maruyama,” he focuses on the problem of political responsibility in the modern world, taking Maruyama’s major work as his point of departure.
In a second (unrelated) lecture, “From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer,” Ôe offers an account of his own development as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.
Authors
Robert Alter
Kwame A. Appiah
T. J. Clark
J.M. Coetzee
Arthur Danto
Mike Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis
Wendy Doniger
Gerald Early
Christina Gillis, ed.
Anthony Grafton
Seamus Heaney
Eva Hoffman
Michael Ignatieff
Stephen Katz
Bert Keizer
Ivan Klima
Maya Lin
Alan Liu
Margaret Lock
Kenzaburô Ôe
Robert Pinsky
Michael Pollan
Sebastião Salgado
Peter Sellars
Maurice Sendak
Kathleen Woodward