...Ronald A. T. Judy Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 127 of 237 Untimely Intellectuals and the University Ronald A. T. Judy...

...Srinivas Aravamudan This essay argues that the university ought to encourage the flourishing of multiple languages and metalanguages. Opposing recent Habermasian universalism and Victorianist virtue talk (e.g., Amanda Anderson's The Way We Argue Now ), it queries why critics turn to character...

...Arif Dirlik This article discusses the impact of transnationalization on higher education, drawing primarily on material related to US universities. Transnationalization refers here both to the effort of universities to branch out globally, following corporate models, and to their search at home...

... of absorption, arresting the reader's attention. Difficulty is thus inherent to poetry—a difficulty challenging the reader to rise to the challenge of what it means to read poetry. A few examples like “Standing Target” are discussed briefly. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 poetics...

...Etienne Balibar Modern universalism, arising from the generalization of the “right to have rights” (or the access to citizenship for all), produces a paradoxical effect on the recognition and definition of anthropological differences, such as gender and sexuality, race and culture, normality...

...Karl Kroeber Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 141 of 237 American Universities: A Personal View Karl Kroeber The following...

...Thomas Docherty Duke University Press 2004 Newman, Ireland, and Universality Thomas Docherty . . . dazzled by phenomena, instead of perceiving things Non judicavi me scire aliquid inter vos, nisi Jesum Christum, et hunc...

...Xudong Zhang Duke University Press 2005 Political Philosophy and Comparison: Bourgeois Identity and the Narrative of the Universal Xudong Zhang 1. The Legitimacy of Comparison: Historical, Political, and Philosophical...

...Walter Benjamin In this address, delivered at a pedagogics conference held at the University of Breslau in 1913, Benjamin argues for an integration of individual and collective experience in the form of an “educational community,” understood not as a circle of common interests...

... from Capital onward (and the history of their reception) exhibit a very real tension between political economy as a universal language of concepts called forth by capital (as a universalizing set of social processes) and political economy as a practice that vigilantly attends to the (im)possibility...

...Margaret Drabble Duke University Press 2007 Writing for Peace: Peace and Difference; Gender, Race, and the Universal Narrative Margaret Drabble When writers are asked to address the subject of “writing for peace,” they assume...

... 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. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 university temporality study youth criticism References...

... the figures of the “entrepreneur of the self” and “human capital.” It argues that when we assume that these modes of subjectivity are dominant, universal, and new, we miss both the long history of exploitation and the particular form this exploitation takes in the present. It concludes with a reading...

...Arif Dirlik The essay critically engages two recent works on the Confucian revival in the People’s Republic of China published by Princeton University Press, the one advocating a Confucian monarchy for the PRC, the other arguing for the universal relevance of Confucianism as a “world religion...

... is awareness of world temporality and its presumed universality. The publication of Karatani Kōjin's Reading “The Structure of World History” (2011), which is his self-commentaries on The Structure of World History (2010), signals an elevated awareness of world history in the current century. It is possible...

...Bradley J. Fest This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses...

...Reginald Jackson This essay charts Masao Miyoshi’s shifting relation to the university as he both imagined it and intervened within it. I examine an incident in which Miyoshi heeded a graduate student’s request for help in contesting unfair treatment. This incident represents a crucible...

... 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...

... beyond their intellectual interests. The letters are retrieved from the special collections libraries at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Buffalo. I have selected portions of letters that display the range and interest of this correspondence, but this only offers a tiny...