College of Liberal Arts

Arkady Plotnitsky

Professor, Department of English; Director of Theory and Cultural Studies

Education:	Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office:	HEAV 431
Office Phone:	(765) 49-43770
Email:	plotnits@purdue.edu
Website:	http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~plotnits/index
Specializations:	Theory and Cultural Studies, specializing in critical and cultural theory, British and European romanticism; continental philosophy; modernism and postmodernism; relations among literature, philosophy, and science

Author of Reconfigurations: Critical Theory and General Economy; In the Shadow of Hegel; Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology After Bohr and Derrida; The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures;" and co-editor (with B. H. Smith) of Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory and (with Tilottama Rajan) Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture. His new book Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy is forthcoming in 2006. He is currently at work on two books: Minute Particulars: Chaos and Thought in British Romanticism and Information and Singularity: Rethinking the Nature of Knowledge in Science, Philosophy and Culture.

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