...Daniel T. O'Hara © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Badiou’s Truth and the Office of the Critic: Naming the Militant Multiples of the Void Daniel T. O’Hara When the poet uses the word flower, Stéphane Mallarmé famously...

...Terry Smith Cézanne's comment, in a letter to a younger artist, “I owe you the truth in painting and I shall tell it to you,” is often cited by commentators, including other artists, exhibition curators, art historians, and philosophers. Some take it up as a pointer to the kinds of truth available...

...: with its radically ambiguous disposition of image space, cubism is the prototypical “theme of modernism.” Picasso and Truth focuses on the particular structure of spatiality that lends a deep-seated unity of concern to Picasso's oeuvre through all its manifest variation in style during his long career...

.../ . Ball James . 2017 . Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World . London : Biteback . Banfield Edward . 1991 . “ Leo Strauss .” In Remembering the University of Chicago , edited by Shils Edward , 490 – 501 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Bartoli Alberto...

...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...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Cry of Its Occasion”: On the Subject of Truth; or, The Terror in Global Terrorism Daniel T. O’Hara My essay will skirt the edges of literature. For my primary concern...

... as performative speech acts. At the site where language, race, and religion–the positive symptoms of decadence–are knotted together, Renan describes a political theology of the color line. The supposed “truths” about Oriental decadence became distributed among the objects of its study (“Orientals”) within...

... uses it as a cover to pursue an imperial agenda, and the Left uses it as an excuse for inaction and, worse, acquiescence in the development of American imperialism. Additionally, this essay highlights Greenblatt’s problematic tone of casual impiety and his book’s many distortions of the truth about...

...Paul North Philosophical truth is universal; yet, if what is true for all is actually to be understood by all, an educator of unparalleled breadth and flexibility is needed. Peter Sloterdijk, German philosophical writer, cultural critic, operatic jester, with thirty years of national fame and more...

... of practices for disseminating heterodox truths. By considering the Washington counterfeit amid meditations on revolution and writing from Edmund Burke and William Godwin, a volatile and unstable print culture comes into focus. The argument is not that print is inherently revolutionary but rather...

... 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...

... a viable modern form of public ceremony that incorporates the transcendental and supernatural into fully immanent forms that are never pro forma but ever disruptive of habit and complacency. The truth of violence for Yeats, as for Wagner or Badiou, is thus not any supernatural transcendence but immortal...

...—the links between morality and reason; the commonplace that associates lifestyle with queer acts and persons; and the conflation of character with identity—discloses both the problems of this discourse and the truths it exposes. Starting with a discussion of an important episode become trope in Kant's...

...-party system. While misinformation is merely a mistake in reportage that is typically retracted in the next day’s news or a distortion of the truth, conscious (spin) or unconscious, for particular ends, such as the Bush administration’s fiction of “weapons of mass destruction,” Disinformation is a deep...

... on Terror” into the organic truth of life itself. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 climate change security state global security ecosecurity American sublime Rethinking the Society of the Spectacle: Natural Security, the Coming Ecologies of War, and the Critical Inquiry of William V...

... the codes of communication. The event destabilizes the regime of truth to the extent that what was assumed to be obvious now appears as unstable, and, consequently, the need arises to explore and construct other discourses capable of naming the new situation. In this essay, I locate two moments of the event...

... remembrance initially in a distorted form which Benjamin compares to the form of meaning in dream experience. The recognition of the image must then be understood as the traversal of that space of semblance which brings out its truth, as the awakening from the dream. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...

... or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize egalitarian militancy, or what Badiou would call fidelity to a truth-procedure? The article combines an account of this little...

... it is a repository of truths hidden from rational subjectivity and belying the foundations of the liberal state. Such claims rest on highly disputable theories of secularization that selectively sample the past and themselves simplify the interrelationships between profane reason and religious lifeworlds that have...

... of politics. No myth without narration, no implementation without an instrumentation, no organic unity without a political organ voicing its claim, in short: no organicity without an organon . But can there be a (literary) community that does not aim at the achievement of its own assumed truth, a form...