...Dotan Leshem This essay juxtaposes two senses given to the concept of “market economy”: economizing the market, as suggested by Aristotle, and marketing the economy, as suggested by modern economists. The essay argues that Aristotle identified the market as arousing excessive desires in people...

...Jonathan Arac To understand and evaluate Emily Dickinson's poetry forces criticism to reflect on issues of length, for which Aristotle and Edgar Allan Poe are two of the major theoretical resources, with further citation from Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert. Giuseppe Ungaretti's extraordinarily...

...Stathis Gourgouris This essay takes as point of departure three phrases by Marx, Heidegger, and Benjamin in order to restage Aristotle’s notion of zōon politikon as a way of rethinking humanism as a radical political project for our times. At the same time, it reconfigures ontological questions...

... of linguistic and social form—in the poetic writing of Paul Celan and the Arabic-language translations of Celan offered by the Iraqi poet Khālid al-Ma‘ālī; in Walter Benjamin’s essayistic writing on language and the law; in the tenth-century Arabic-language philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī; and in Aristotle’s...

..., on the other, contemporary criticism needs to commit to the critical and comparative historical task. It should regard the “pictorial turn” as producing results that continue, complicate, and add nuance to the conclusions reached by a long tradition of writings about viewing and vision. Since Aristotle...

... on this problem with a brief indication of my own approach. • • • • De Laurentiis foregrounds Hegel's ( 2007 : §378) declaration, in his introduction to the Philosophy of Spirit , that Aristotle's books on the soul “are still the most admirable, perhaps even the sole, work of speculative interest...

... began to touch in Aristotle. Were we speaking in classical Greek or modern German we would have an easier time of this, but in English, we must explain the issue. Let me begin at the end, as it were. Forming a critical humanist through the studies traditionally associated with languages, literature...

... that is elevated, complete, and of magnitude; in language embellished by distinct forms in its sections; employing the mode of enactment, not narrative; and through pity and fear accomplishing the catharsis of such emotions. (Aristotle, Poetics, trans. Stephen Halliwell, Loeb Edition [Cambridge, Mass...

... and the differential value of cultural labor is forthcoming. Renu Dube teaches rhetoric in the Communication Department at Boise State Uni- versity. She has published articles on Bacon, Aristotle, and postcolonial feminism, and is currently at work turning her dissertation on Aristotle into a book manuscript...

... political things may have emerged entirely unknown to Plato or to Aristotle; (4) as a consequence of (3), political philosophy is given a history (or a ‘‘tradition yet politics or political activity political things has no history; (5) classical political philosophy is monolithic and internally con...

..., oscillating between vulgar language and angelic dictation. This contradictory recipe for poetic diction is not by any means, however, without historical precedent. In fact, although one is unlikely to describe Nobby's insurrectional texts as Aristotelean, it is precisely Aristotle ( 1982 : 69) who asserts...

.... © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 gossip idle talk Dasein Martin Heidegger quotidian speech References Aristotle . 1987 . A New Aristotle Reader . Edited by Ackrill J. L. . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Blanchot Maurice . 1963 . “La...

... drift into separate fields. In section 1447b of his Poetics, Aristotle comes up with a shocking observation that can help us understand this better. He says, up to his day, 4. Jacques Derrida, Acts of Literature, ed. Derek Attridge (New York: Routledge, 1992), 40, for instance. See also...

..., CA : Stanford University Press . Agamben Giorgio . 2004 . The Open: Man and Animal . Translated by Attell Kevin . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Aristotle . 2006 . On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civil Discourse . Translated by Kennedy George A. . Oxford...

... levels continuously modify each other as to meaning. What is remarkable is that no exegetical scholar has given any weight to what appears to be the philosophical source of the fourfold system, that is, the theory of the four causes given in the Metaphysics and Physics of Aristotle...

... that transcends litera- ture altogether, in a way that would be recognizable to a Nicolas Boileau or a later romantic (Longinus “helped to prepare the way for [the] character- istically Romantic point of view”)4 but not to a Plato, an Aristotle, or a Her- mogenes, let alone a writer on nature or the universe...

... Aristotle did develop a set of norms for the theatrical event they referred to as tragedy. Spe- cific meters and melodic patterns were reserved for tragedy; there were also general notions about the types of characters and situations and lan- guage that might be appropriate, just as there were specific...

.... He criticizes Aristotle for having suggested that there was a sameness to the operations of what Williams terms “stark fictions”: “One of the several disservices that Aristotle rendered to the understanding of Greek tragedy was that of generating the idea that there is some one specific effect...

... into, on the one hand, a sensing that senses its own proper object of sensation (that is, an object that is capable of being sensed), and, on the other hand, a sensing that directs 2. See the discussion in book 2, part 5, of Aristotle, “On the Soul,” in The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford...

... in Aristotle and Clas- sical Literature (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 153 (citing the work of Zaborowski). Simpson / Toward a Theory of Terror 21 very few among the full list of ingredients, should tell us that we are a long way from such “philosophy...