Robert Hughes
· ProfessorOhio State University · English
Active 1981–2025
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About
Robert Hughes is a scholar of comparative literature with a focus on the intersection of contemporary continental philosophies of art and aesthetics, feminist theories, and phenomenological theories of the body. His academic background includes a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University. His literary expertise primarily encompasses nineteenth-century literature, especially American literature, as well as European art, literature, and philosophy of the same period. Hughes is also a translator of contemporary philosophy from French and German into English and serves as a co-director of the International Philosophical Seminar in Italy. His recent publications include translations of works by Peter Sloterdijk and Laurent De Sutter, as well as his own authored book titled "The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought" published by Routledge in 2024. His research explores themes related to the body, aesthetics, and cultural politics within the framework of critical theory and comparative literature.
Research topics
- Physics
- Particle physics
- Nuclear physics
- Computer science
- Algorithm
Selected publications
Susceptibility and Cixous’s Self-Strange Subject
Philosophies · 2024-05-06 · 1 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis essay reads a short narrative, “Savoir” by Hélène Cixous, to describe susceptibility as a problem organized around two lines of impingement: between subject and world and between consciousness and the wayward impulses of interior life. The young girl in Cixous’s text suffers a moment of disorientation and distress one misty morning and, against presumptions of inviolability and ideals of subjective consistency, this unhappy event comes to resonate with her disappointed trust in the generosi…
American Literary History · 2025-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingThe Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature
2024-05-23
book1st authorCorrespondingArt makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects strangely susceptible to being moved. The twenty-first-century European thinkers elucidated here describe a theory of the aesthetic subject: Irigaray articulates the basic outlines of a subject ill at ease…
Irigaray on the limits of the homely figuration of the unhomely subject
2024-05-23
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingSloterdijk on the body's indifference to the supposed mastery of consciousness
2024-05-23
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 1126 shared
J. Andreä
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
- 1124 shared
C. Collard
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
- 1121 shared
D. Blöch
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
- 1119 shared
E. Conte
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
- 1036 shared
E. C. Chabert
Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
- 932 shared
P. Verdier
Institute of High Energy Physics
- 931 shared
M. Lethuillier
Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon
- 875 shared
S. Beauceron
Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon
Education
- 2003
Ph.D., Department of Comparative Literature
Emory University
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