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...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 2 William V. Spanos Silence permeates all things, and produced its magical power, as well during...

... México; at the 2013 MLA in Boston; and at Williams College. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Roberto Bolaño allegory world literature Nazism comparison Comparison, Allegory, and the Address of “Global” Realism (The Part about Bolaño...

... as an unmediated and unproblematic return to the tradition of (Sunni) Islam, making it difficult to see that political Islam is in fact a result of the great transformation of Muslim societies under colonial rule. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Part 1: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist...

... virulent Far Right—one that has been immor- talized in the work of Saba Mahmood. Sub-Saharan­ Africa, for its part, has seen the rapid rise of the morally conservative Pentecostal and Charis- matic churches, whose newfound social role as a para–welfare state has been directly abetted by USAID...

..., then? To seriously encounter the Wittgensteinian demand would mean to perform atheism without the least necessity, desire, or investment in its truth—to be an atheist without the least concern to prove the validity of its meaning. (This is precisely where I part from the rationalist atheism of Dawkins...

... of church and state—secularism in a sense that does not abso- lutely require disbelief in supernatural agency—is indeed a historical reality, though an imperfect one. In this sense, yes, of course, secularism is indeed part of the structure of power in the United States. Whether you think this makes...

...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...

...Arif Dirlik The discussion offered below is in two parts. The first part reproduces parts of an article published in 1981, at the very beginning of the reforms in Chinese socialism under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. This article argued a point that proved to be controversial at the time...

...Christi Ann Merrill This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk...

...Stephen Carter Abstract This essay explores Norman O. Brown's conception of politics and metapolitics. Brown describes politics via Freud's family romance, as a sphere of conflict between fathers and sons. The first part of the argument focuses on Brown's notion of the fraternal—collectivities...

...Mohamed-Salah Omri The most famous slogan chanted in Tunisia in January, then in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, is a reincarnation of opening lines of the poem “The Will of Life,” written in 1933 by the Tunisian poet Abou el-Kasem Chebbi (1909–1934), which now form the closing part of Tunisia’s...

... Sound.” The first part establishes the Minneapolis milieu, specifically that of the black neighborhoods, and how it formed Prince and his cohort, such as James “Jimmy Jam” Harris Jr., Terry Lewis, André Cymone, Morris Day, and others. The second part is a close analysis of Prince's music and its sonic...

... of Exception ( Homo Sacer II.1 ), and The Kingdom and the Glory ( Homo Sacer II.2 ). Agamben's recent work, Profanations , is, however, not a part of that series. As its title indicates, it turns from the sacred to the profane, and in so doing reveals the most profound intentions of Agamben's philosophy...

... then comes back to the “civilized” world but refuses to write about the secret. He shall not be part of the Western community of knowledge, the community of university professors. Instead, he becomes an archivist at Yale. The commentary asks about the founding dichotomy between knowledge and the archive...

... constitutive (national) parts. Rancière’s notions of “voice” and “speech” are introduced, with “speech” being proposed as a precondition for subjectivization and political representation. Various analytic approaches in the study of Eastern Europe and its history are then explored, leading to the conclusion...

...Ben Lerner It is a commonplace that John Ashbery's poetry is, in some important sense, “about time,” but we lack an account of the specific experience of temporality it enables. Part of the bizarre power of Ashbery's best poetry is that it seems to narrate what it is like to read Ashbery's best...

... in recent years, Chinese policy makers have again used the Confucius label as part of their “charm offensive” to win friends and influence in the world. This essay traces the major interpretations of Confucius and the social manifestations of those evaluations in the twentieth century, culminating...

... the place of Gerede in its sense-making capacity. This potential of Gerede —one that is based on the covering/uncovering mode of Erschlossenheit and of truth as a-leitheia —draws out an implication of Sein und Zeit that in part runs counter to its explicit argument and to Heidegger's later work on language...