Lecture: "Jacques Lezra: "On the Nature of Marx's Things"

Jacques Lezra is professor of comparative literature, English, German and Spanish and Portuguese and chair of the Comparative Literature Department at New York University. Born in Madrid of a Moroccan-Spanish-West Virginian family, Lezra received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1990. He is a specialist in the literature of the Renaissance and early modern period, Cervantes and Shakespeare in particular, and in contemporary political philosophy.