The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Caroline Levine discussing her book on the intersection of literary study and activism in the context of the climate crisis.

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis(Princeton University Press, 2023). Building on the theory developed in her award-winning book, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, Levine’s The Activist Humanist redirects the critical capacities of formalist literary study to discover and mobilize the democratic potential ...

People in this episode

Guest: Caroline Levine

Topics covered

• climate crisis
• humanities
• literary study
• democratic potential
• activism

Keywords

• Caroline Levine
• climate crisis
• activist humanist
• literary study
• democracy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cornell University, Princeton University Press

Books & works: The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

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