... and the Road to Self-Redemption: A Cultural Analysis of 1998’s ‘Anti-Rightist’ Publications”] . Shanghai wenxue , no. 5 . Hu Ping . 1998 . Chanji 1957: kunande jitan [Zen Figure 1957: Altar of Suffering] . Guangzhou : Guangdong Lüyou chubanshe . Lévy Bernard-Henri . 2000 . Ziyou de...

...David Fieni Examining the work of Ernest Renan in relation to thinkers confessing Arab and Islamic affiliations in the Ottoman fin de siècle allows us to understand how Orientalist scholarship has used decadence as the figure through which its positivist scientific claims were redistributed...

... organized via metaphorical extensions of brotherhood—as a central, underemphasized, and socially ambiguous aspect of his understanding of politics. The second part discusses Brown's use of figures drawn from ecological or environmental spaces, in particular trees and forests, to outline a notion...

... a recent biography of Cézanne by Alex Danchev and the same author's recent edition of the artist's letters. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Paul Cézanne postimpressionism impressionism French painting Alex Danchev Cézanne: Figuring Truth in Painting...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Figures of the Void: On the Subject of Truth and the Fundamentalist Imagination Daniel T. O Hara What follows is an encounter between the most classically rational- ist imagination among today s philosophers and the most stereotypically irrational...

... this tradition in its figural relationship to past becomings. Where this philosophical tradition intersects with current examples of antiracist activism, figurations of cosmopolitan dissidence produce flashes of postrace fulfillment that disrupt the emerging totalitarianisms of thought that would perpetuate...

...G. S. Sahota Abstract Through an analysis of the legendary Islamic figure Khizr in the works of Norman O. Brown, Muhammad Iqbal, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, this essay proposes world literature as a methodology for deriving possible alternatives to existing worlds. By tracing the dialectic...

... embraced, in Love's Body and Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis if not throughout his works early and late, as tactics of “figural interpretation, [that] discovered world-historical significance in any [everyday trivial] event—an event which remains trivial for those who do not have eyes to see...

...Abdeljelil Temimi When the Tunisian Revolution began, the Temimi Foundation found itself in a new position of cultural responsibility, and this compelled us to invite the main part of the national leadership, the youth of the revolution, as well as leading figures from the diverse currents...

... considerable time working in South Africa, especially in Cape Town, on questions of freedom, archives, African and African Diaspora intellectual history, and political thought. At least one generation of intellectuals had stood against apartheid and reflected on Mandela as a political figure of freedom...

...Jed Rasula This essay considers the disappearance from the historical record of hundreds of American poets who published regularly in the first half of the twentieth century. Since a pedagogically oriented canon emerged in 1950, scholars have assumed that a small number of established figures were...

... as diplomatic strategies on the part of the United States, the discourse of affective affinity and national unity across the Taiwan Strait is becoming forcefully attractive, often advocated in the figure of brotherhood, shared interests, or even intimacy. This essay argues that the relationship between Taiwan...

... of approaching Ellison’s posthumously published novel that takes seriously Ellison’s move away from the tropes and figures of race that concerned him in his previous work. I argue that Ellison’s novel speaks directly to our contemporary moment and what he already saw in 1982: the “potent and dangerous force...

..., colonialism, and nationalism, including Nazism, Nichanian sketches a genealogy of the figure of the native. The latter emerges as the eighteenth-century British jurist and linguist William Jones compiles and translates legalistic texts from India to be able to govern the “natives” by their own laws and in so...

...Marta Figlerowicz Abstract This article argues that Erich Auerbach's Mimesis depicts figural thinking as inextricable from ritual violence perpetuated against vulnerable, minority populations. To an extent that has been underappreciated, Mimesis also reflects on Auerbach's own complicity with anti...

... diminishing his life, his art, or his legacy as an iconoclastic, genuinely transitional figure in the emergence of twentieth-century culture. His status as the first Global Citizen, representing his race and his country, is augmented by his anomalous “postracial” identity as a representative of human good...

... of annihilated figures and grounds. Duke University Press 2009 Versus Seamlessness: Architectonics of Pseudocomplicity in Tan Lin’s Ambient Poetics Jennifer Scappettone Ambient music enjoys a certain circulation in today’s aesthetic dis- course...