Anthony J. Cascardi, Jr.
Educator and Humanities scholar
Born: New York, December 29, 1953
Education:
Princeton University, B.A., 1975, summa cum laude
Harvard University: M.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1980
Career
University of California, Berkeley, 1980-
Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor in the departments of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish
Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 006-2011
Jean and Irving Stone Dean of Arts and Humanities, 2011-
Major Works
The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). New paperback edition, 2006.
The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986). Andrew Mellon Foundation Publication Award.
Literature and the Question of Philosophy, edited and with introductions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). Voted an “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year” by the Association of College and Research Libraries in Choice. Paperback edition, March, 1989. Lightning Books electronic reprint, 1999.
The Subject of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; reprinted 1994, 1995). Subjectivité et Modernité, trans. Philippe de Brabanter (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995).
Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997).
Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Chinese translation (Beijing: Commercial Press, 2007). Reprint: pp. 1-48, in Theodor Adorno: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, ed. Simon Jarvis (London: Routledge, 2006).
The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003; reprinted, 2006).
Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics (Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Awarded the Gordan Prize for Best Book, 2013, Renaissance Society of America. Cervantes, la literatura, y el discurso de la politica. Trans. Cristina Alvarez de Morales Mercado (Granada: EUG, 2018). “Imagining the Nation: Ricote and the Moriscos,” reprinted in Don Quixote: Second Norton Critical Edition (New York: Norton, 2020), pp. 805-814.
The Cambridge Intoduction to Literature and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Francisco de Goya: Art of Critique (New York: Zone Books, forthcoming)
Coedited Volumes:
Poiēsis and Modernity in Early Modern Spain and Europe, with Leah Middlebrook (Hispanic Issues, 2012). Art and Aesthetics After Adorno (Berkeley: Townsend Center for the Humanities and The University of California Press, 2010).
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