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... This chapter is a critique of recent theories of world literature by Franco Moretti, David Damrosch, and Pascale Casanova. It contrasts the lack of a normative dimension in these theories and their reduction of the world to the spatial extensiveness of the global market with Erich Auerbach’s...

... The introduction outlines why existing theories of world literature have failed to connect it to cosmopolitanism. This failure is the result of a normative deficit that arises from their conception of the world as a spatial category. The introduction outlines various temporal conceptions...

...The World of World Literature in Question This chapter is a critique of recent theories of world literature by Franco Moretti, David Damrosch, and Pascale Casanova. It contrasts the lack of a normative dimension in these theories and their reduction of the world to the spatial extensiveness...

... critique of capitalism is based on an understanding of the world as a temporal process. It then argues that Marx’s denial of any normative force to literature can be circumvented by the insights of critical theories of space. Similarly, Marx’s reductive view of global capitalism can be supplemented...

... Miller begins this chapter with a fairly sharp dialogical differentiation between what he says about globalization and world literature and what Ranjan Ghosh says in his chapter 5. Miller holds that a special theory should be derived in each case from the terminology of the text at hand in light...

... differentiation between what he says about globalization and world literature and what Ranjan Ghosh says in his chapter 5. Miller holds that a special theory should be derived in each case from the terminology of the text at hand in light of its specific, surrounding, historical, biographical, and linguistic...

...Worlding and Unworlding<subtitle>Worldliness, Narrative, and “Literature” in Phenomenology and Deconstruction</subtitle> This chapter is a critical reconstruction of Heidegger’s theory of world and its ontological connection to temporality and transcendence. It elaborates on his rejection...

... Chapter 2 examines the resonance between feminism and naturalized (and neuro-) philosophy in theories of the embodied mind. Both literatures challenge dominant accounts of neurocognition as disembodied and abstract, and draw from pragmatist and phenomenological ideas of engaged, practical...

... Delaney use images of light to put blues-sorrows into perspective. The chapter offers a new reading of Baldwin’s major short story “Sonny’s Blues” in the context of Delaney’s lessons to Baldwin as the latter matures as an author. The essay proposes a theory of reading visual art and literature...

... together tendencies in the literature on conceptual art and conceptualism that respectively parse its conceptuality and expand its geography, the introduction positions the conceptually rigorous work of Art &amp; Language at the core of the conceptual art movement’s historical significance for twentieth...

... In this chapter, Beaumont uses Slavoj Žižek’s theories of fantasy and parallax to examine a plot widespread throughout world literature: the “Sleeper Awakened” plot. Tracing the trajectory of a particular iteration of this plot involving the medieval Islamic sect known as the Assassins...

... theory,” but the idea that conspiracy theory is a special type of discourse—one that is easily recognized and dismissed as pathological—emerged during the Cold War and is entangled with the history of the security state. In the post-World War II United States, both allegations of conspiracy...

... in postcolonial capitalist globalization. It offers a critical assessment of theories of heterotemporality and alternative modernities and suggests that the inhuman dimension of the opening of the world by the coming of time is more fundamental as a force of transformation in contemporary globalization...

... globalization. It offers a critical assessment of theories of heterotemporality and alternative modernities and suggests that the inhuman dimension of the opening of the world by the coming of time is more fundamental as a force of transformation in contemporary globalization. globalization alternative...

... This chapter is a critical reconstruction of Heidegger’s theory of world and its ontological connection to temporality and transcendence. It elaborates on his rejection of widely accepted understandings of the world as objective presence, as the sphere created by intercourse among subjects...

... formation theory became the most important explanation for the field called (post-1968) ethnic studies and is influential across fields such as literature, history, philosophy, law, and others. Critical legal studies is an example of the theory’s reach and influence. racial formation theory racial...

... the Symbolic—Soucy’s metaphorical tale of hindered identity and traumatic subjectivity articulates the contours of a literary Real. In this chapter, Beaumont uses Slavoj Žižek’s theories of fantasy and parallax to examine a plot widespread throughout world literature: the “Sleeper Awakened” plot...

... Delaney use images of light to put blues-sorrows into perspective. The chapter offers a new reading of Baldwin’s major short story “Sonny’s Blues” in the context of Delaney’s lessons to Baldwin as the latter matures as an author. The essay proposes a theory of reading visual art and literature...