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Details for Dr Kurt Lampe
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Kurt Lampe |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Department | Department of Classics & Ancient History University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(UCSD), M.A.(Calif.), PhD(UC Berkeley) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | Greek literature Latin literature modern literature critical theory Greek tragedy psychoanalysis existentialism pragmatism |
| Areas of expertise | I like to work at the interface of Greek and Latin literature with modern literature, philosophy, and critical theory. I am especially interested in how studying the classics can shed light on contemporary concerns. Ancient authors on which I am working at present include Plato, Xenophon, Musonius Rufus, and Horace. I am also increasingly interested in Greek tragedy. Modern perspectives with which I like to think include psychoanalysis, existentialism, and pragmatism. In addition to writing papers on the authors listed above, I am currently revising for publication my doctoral dissertation, Cyrenaic Ethics: Theory, Contexts, and Lifestyles. |