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Didier Maleuvre
Professor of French
Affiliated with Comparative Literature,
& the Center of Film, Television & New Media
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Yale University, 1993
- M.A., Yale University (1990) & University of Minnesota, 1989
- B.A., English, University of Pau, France
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Twentieth-Century Literature
- Philosophy
- Aesthetic Theory
- History of Art
Publications
- The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, And Transcendence (The Catholic University of America Press, June 2006). The book is a philosophic essay on the denial of transcendence in modern thought and, on the other hand, the vitality of the religious spirit in art.
- Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (Stanford UP, 1999). A book on museums and the philosophy of art in the modern period.
- A collection of essays co-edited with Catherine Nesci, L'oeuvre d'identité. Essais sur le romantisme de Nodier à Baudelaire (Montréal: Paragraphes, 1996)
- & numerous articles on art, literature, and philosophy.
Recent articles include:
- “Tocqueville on the Challenge of American Philosophy,” Philosophy Today 44.4 (2000): 380-387.
- “Emerson on Patience,” Prisms 8 (2000): 49-66. Reprinted in Recent Perspectives on European Romanticism , ed. Larry H. Peer (2002).
- “Can we Believe Darwin?” Comparative Literature 53.2 (Spring 2001): 118-130.
- “The Heart of Kant's Ethics” Prisms 9 (2001): 157-175.
- “Must Aesthetic Understanding be Interpretive?” SubStance #96, 30. 3 (2001): 120-128.
- “Painting Mortality (Jacques-Louis David)” Diacritics 30. 3 (2002): 13-27.
- “Beyond Culture,” Journal of Human Value 10:2 (2004): 131-141.
- “Art and the Teaching of Love” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 39.1 (Spring 2005): 77-92.
- My teaching remains guided by the belief that works of literature and art have the power, not just to train critical thinking, but to awaken the more tender faculties of the mind, to kindle generosity and kindness, indeed to make us into advocates of life in its many forms.