...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 157 of 237 The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics...

... constitutes the discourses, ideologies, and institutions that produce and consolidate the metaphysics of imperialism. Drawing on Martin Heidegger and the poststructuralists, Spanos’s work demonstrates that metaphysics, far from being inconsequential, is the discursive and political reproduction of a certain...

... are invariably emblematized by the field's apparent (and false) “non-Western” focus. It concludes that for CPT to be a meaningful field in its own right it must be concerned with metaphysical and cosmological discontinuities rather than spatial, geographic, or cultural differences per se; this will require...

...Peter Fenves Abstract The essay begins by demonstrating that Benjamin drew his interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics from a little‐known book by Herman Schmalenbach. In contrast to the typical view, according to which Leibniz is a proponent of the principle of continuity, Schmalenbach argues...

... , 1963) and `Abd al-Rahman Munif's Mudun al-Milh ( Cities of Salt , 1984). Both depict metaphysical, transcendent worlds that are destroyed by the inexorable march of modernity. These narratives begin with idealized agrarian communities but climax with the metamorphosis of humanity into a machinelike...

... oriented to produce a visibility that discloses the set of metaphysical and material aspects related to contemporary intellectual practices, which makes it difficult to assign his work to any standard category (professional philosophy, postmodernism, poststructuralist criticism, etc.). In this essay, I...

... want to show how Benjamin’s program to grasp student life metaphysically involves a fundamental connection between the practice of study and a discontinuous concept of time. Beyond Autonomy: Walter Benjamin on the Life of Students Antonia Birnbaum...

... of awakening as a function of remembrance and expectation. Already in the “early” Benjamin, historical remembrance is understood dialectically as awakening from and to “that dream we name the past” (as he will put it in The Arcades Project more than a decade later). At once metaphysical and sociological...

..., concerns the classic phenomenological and metaphysical debates around expression, revealing, representation, mimesis, and the “extensions of man.” The second, rather ill-defined thus far, deals with a different set of concerns: encryption, obliteration, unilateral determination, irreversibility...

... (who is also a thinker of Christianity) frequently mentions. It is the thought of the subject, the author, the artist, the genius, the sovereign, and the creator. Such exceptionalism is political as well as aesthetic. It is philosophical—ontological and metaphysical—as well as theological. If Jullien...

... as the work of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for the centrality of the human gaze in Sebald’s imagination. The human gaze forges a unique form of realism in Sebald, playing a central role in revealing the “metaphysical underside” of objects, which in turn provokes an ethical response...

... Metaphysics —to suggest the ways in which philology becomes a practice for linguistic indistinction and indefinition. Because language, as philology, ceases to be subordinated to its ends (history, sense, the subject), it becomes a discordant social form; because it disorders the terms privileged...

...Brian Kim Stefans Abstract Focusing on two key themes, or vectors, of Charles Bernstein's latest book of poetry, Topsy-Turvy , that of brokenness and the various references to “God” or religious belief, this review argues that there is a new metaphysical dimension in Bernstein's recent poetry...

... added). Since his complaint is pitched against “the various destructions and deconstructions that all traditional meta- physics have undergone over the last century and a half” (1), his failure to engage with the huge body of analytic metaphysics becomes all the more pointed. Commentators...

... between nature and spirit, and thus to take a position on major questions in contemporary Hegel scholarship, including the sense in which Hegel's thinking is metaphysical, how his idealism should be distinguished from philosophical materialism, and how we should situate the Encyclopedia of Philosophical...

... of the directives for thought and practice suggested by the most recent explorations of the ‘‘other’’ silenced by the triumph of ‘‘the world often referred to as the ‘‘Americanization of the planet 1 What about this resonant silence? As I have suggested, the pas- sages on the metaphysics...

... stigma of having indulged in metaphysics, something one is no longer supposed to do after the edicts of the first ‘‘W even though those who think that metaphysics is passé know usually much less science than Whitehead and swallow—without an ounce of criticism—hook, line, and sinker the entirety...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 1 William V. Spanos Anxiety reveals the nothing. —Martin Heidegger, ‘‘What Is Metaphysics...

... work, except for those moments of metaphysical weakness when he privileged History over those who actually make history. Perhaps one might simply say that all transcen- dentalist truth claims are mere attributes of humanity and, in this respect, secondary to what might make humanity a radical source...

...–Cold­ War period to the “end-­of history” thesis makes clear) an ontological one . . . that the discourse of the “liberal imagination” is informed by metaphysics—an­ ontological representation of being that, in perceiving meta-­ta-­physica—­from after or above an always...