Paul North

Research Areas

Critical Theory, History of Philosophy, German literatures, Latin American literature and thought, Psychoanalysis, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx

Bio

Paul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German and Philosophy. He works in literature and criticism, post-Kantian philosophy, Jewish thought, and critical theory, with recent focus on Karl Marx. He has written four books. The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital (forthcoming 2027). Bizarre Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Zone 2021), The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Standford 2015). And The Problem of Distraction (Stanford 2012). He is co-editor of a new edition of Marx’s Capital, three volumes, with Princeton University Press. Volume 1 appeared in 2024 and Volume 2 is expected in 2027. 

Highlighted Publications

“Two Attacks on Attention.” Politics of Curiosities. Alternatives to the Attention Economy. Ed. Enrico Campo and Yves Citton. Routledge (forthcoming 2023).
 
“Some Images in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra.” Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy: Nietzsche and Literary Studies. Ed. James I. Porter. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2023).
 
“Time is a Word in Celan.” Crisis and Critique. Vol 9 Issue 1. 31-08-2022
 
Bizarre Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness. Zone Books (2021).
 
“Franz Kafka’s ‘Up on the Balcony’.” Dialogue with Vivian Liska. Performance Research. Vol 26. No. 3. (May 2021).