Rita Felski

· William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

University of Virginia · Political and Social Thought

Active 1984–2026

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Citations6.8k

Papers13940 last 5y

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Rita Felski is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of Political & Social Thought at the University of Virginia. Her academic role involves engaging with political and social thought, contributing to the university's intellectual community. The information provided does not include specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions, but her title indicates a distinguished position within her field.

Research topics

Psychology
Art
Epistemology
Aesthetics
Philosophy

Selected publications

Hooked
2020 · 266 citations
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3. THE INVENTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
New York University Press eBooks · 2020 · 198 citations
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Resonance and Education
On Education Journal for Research and Debate · 2020-12-01 · 20 citations
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This essay addresses the relations between recent reassessments of critique in literary studies and current debates in the field of education. Drawing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, it argues for the relevance of “resonance” as an educational concept. Resonance is not an emotion but a relation: not a positive feeling but an often ambivalent experience of aliveness, excitement, and connectivity. As a sociological as well as phenomenological concept, it encourages us to acknowledge the institutional…
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Recognizing Class
New Literary History · 2021-01-01 · 17 citations
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This essay draws out affinities between the ideas of Axel Honneth, one of the most prominent figures of the present-day Frankfurt School, and Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon's widely lauded memoir about his estrangement from his working-class origins. It argues that Returning to Reims' portrait of a divided self casts a fresh light on the politics of recognition—its conflicting dimensions and unintended consequences—as well as the aesthetics of recognition: not just a theme but also a form of…
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Hooked : Art and Attachment
2020 · 16 citations
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"What does it mean to get hooked by a work, whether a bestseller or a classic, a TV series or a painting in a museum? What is this aesthetic experience that makes us feel captivated? What do works of art do, and how, in particular, do they bind us to them? In "Hooked," Rita Felski builds an aesthetics premised on our attachments rather than our free agency and challenges the ethos of critical aloofness that is so much a part of modern intellectuals' self-image. The result is sure to be as widely…
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Susan Fraiman
Columbia University
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Robert Horwitz
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Robert Stam
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Larry A. Gross
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Neetu Khanna
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
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Kate Fortmueller
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Liz Floyd
New York University
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Lisa Cartwright
University of California, San Diego
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