Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford)

This panel will look at what is left over in discussions of identity by placing literature in dialogue with the philosophical discussion of modern identity. Central to this thinking is what Cora Diamond describes as 'the difficulty of reality', that which remains outside of or surplus to the ways in which we attempt to organise and understand our personal and communal experiences. This discussion thereby seeks to reorientate the ways in which we approach the relationship between philosophy and literature on the question of identity, and to discuss how literature might give access to a phenomenology of value that more wholly describes the difficulty of our experiences of identity which continually elude and exceed our forms of half-knowledge.

The panel invites papers on any topic that explores the relationship between philosophy and literature on the question of identity, and asks that submissions consider how that relationship might (or might not) engage with this notion of difficulty.

This panel seeks to reorientate the ways in which we approach the relationship between philosophy and literature on the question of identity, and to discuss how literature might give access to a phenomenology of value that more wholly describes the difficulty of our experiences of identity.