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...Oliver Simons Paul North’s The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation is one of the few books to have analyzed Kafka’s so-called Zürau Aphorisms , a collection of short texts from 1917–1918. North reads these notations as “reflections” in the tradition of ontological philosophy, “thoughts...

... their inclusion might really be of substantive interest rather than only of ethical merit). Hence, as a response to accusations that mainstream political theory remains staunchly Eurocentric, the emerging field of comparative political thought (CPT) is anxious about its appropriate range of activity: it aims...

...Ban Wang Duke University Press 2007 Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui Ban Wang The past has no voice: it exists as habits, institutions, artifacts...

.... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler E. Khayyat EK: There is a story I heard you tell on a number of occasions—the story of your relationship with Martin Heidegger...

... , eds. 2013 . Zhongguo xiandai sixiang wenxuan [Selected Writing from Modern Chinese Thought] . 2 vols. Shanghai : Shanghai shudian chubanshe . Chinese Revolution early modern Chinese thought Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Arne De Boever In this article, I argue that François Jullien’s thought draws into question the exceptionalism that typically constitutes Western thought. Consider, for example, the thought of the event, which is a thought of the break, the rupture, of radical caesura—of the miracle, which Jullien...

..., puzzling term: bastard sugar , the “impure” sugar left after many boilings. Its brief role in the age of emancipation, and the crisis that emancipation posed for West Indian sugar, raise questions about the relationship between racialization, value, and legitimacy in the New World. Guided by the thought...

... to political factions, and closes with the arboreal transformations of his essay, “Daphne, or Metamorphosis.” Yoking together the unlikely pair of fraternities and forests creates a platform for clarifying conceptions of politics and metapolitics in Brown's thought. Brown ([ 1959 ] 1985: xvii) describes his...

...Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s “The Future of Reading? Memories and Thoughts Toward a Genealogical Approach” asks a fundamental question: How does the younger generation of students and readers approach a text, and in which ways does their constant reading via one online device...

...Anthony Grafton Duke University Press 2001 Error Messages: Night Thoughts Inspired by James O’Donnell’s Avatars of the Word Anthony Grafton American intellectuals have always come, like American athletes and musicians...

...Harry Harootunian Duke University Press 2005 Some Thoughts on Comparability and the Space-Time Problem Harry Harootunian The primacy of space over time in general is an infallible character- istic of reactionary language...

...Arif Dirlik This discussion elaborates on Susan Buck-Morss's critique of the political thought of the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, in her essay, “Democracy: An Unfinished Project.” Buck-Morss's critique provides occasion for reflecting on a challenge that faces radical criticism: how...

...Ronald AT. Judy Ronald AT. Judy 2007 Some Thoughts on Naguib Mahfouz in the Spirit of Secular Criticism Ronald AT. Judy Near the end of Qasr as-shawq (Palace of Desire), the second vol- ume in Naguib Mahfouz’s famous novel...

... the globalization of racial thought in its latest civilizationist guise. To establish this present moment as the contested future of the long tradition of antiracist humanism outlined by Gilroy, the essay draws on the thought of Erich Auerbach and C. L. R. James to develop a schema that firmly anchors...

...John A. McClure In “`Do You Believe in Magic?' Literary Thinking After the New Left,” Sean McCann and Michael Szalay argue that postmodern American novelists, by celebrating “the spontaneous, the symbolic, and ultimately the magical” undermine the good sense of progressive thought and contribute...

...Tom Cohen This essay places Bernard Stiegler's conception of arche -cinema in contact with the era of climate change and the impasse that it presents to the American Left today. It views Stiegler's thought as a post-anthropocene writing project yet asks whether the “proletarianization of the senses...

... their conditions of possibility. The focus is on three words, three figures of thought in Fletcher’s work: daemon , central to his picture of allegorical agency, its compulsive, almost supernatural character; gnome , or the gnomic , a name for what’s most secret, most difficult, and yet most fundamental...

..., by definition, to unfold it in the world. Determined to separate the false paradox (the “world” according to the One) from the true paradox (the cosmological abyss) within which it unfolds, humanity is thought to be destined to an inevitable state of war as if by nature. Secular criticism (in the manner...

...Leah Feldman Abstract This essay addresses how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conditions of social, political, and economic precarity that followed gave rise to intertwining strands of global New Right thought. Taking up the Russian Right's revanchist-revolutionary vision of neo...

... in a remote meadow ringed by second-growth redwoods. Brown developed his interest in the “law of metamorphosis,” which he thought poetry captures, and put his attention on how the human body changes, producing text as sound or performance. Using two anthologies compiled by Jerome Rothenberg, Brown drew...