The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

Paul A. Kottman is the author of Love as Human Freedom (Stanford, 2017), Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins, 2009) and A Politics of the Scene (Stanford 2008). He also edits the book series, Square One: First Order Questions in the Humanities (Stanford), and teaches at the New School for Social Research.

Paul A. Kottman

The Grasp of the Real

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Critical Theory

The Lives of the Novel

How to Do Things with Fictions

How the Humanities Will Save the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Paul A. Kottman is the author of Love as Human Freedom (Stanford, 2017), Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins, 2009) and A Politics of the Scene (Stanford 2008). He also edits the book series, Square One: First Order Questions in the Humanities (Stanford), and teaches at the New School for Social Research.