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... Jean-François Lyotard Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe The Sublime without Longinus James I. Porter The sublime is a perennial source of fascination. Studies abound, and so do appeals to the concept it stands for—that ever-alluring­ and elu...

... 2021 by Duke University Press The Philological Thesis: Language without Ends Jeffrey Sacks Poetry is first philology. Werner Hamacher, Minima Philologica 1 In a collection of prose writings, Paul Celan writes of discontinuity: Discontinuity of the poem (2005b: 148) are the words he gives us.1...

...Wlad Godzich Duke University Press 2006 Fear without Catharsis It is nearly five years since the attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon. They produced reactions of shock and horror in much of the world, and exhilaration in some other parts...

...Dimitris Papadopoulos; Vassilis Tsianos Duke University Press 2007 How to Do Sovereignty without People? The Subjectless Condition of Postliberal Power Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vassilis Tsianos 1. Constitution The emergence of modern...

...Angus J. S. Fletcher Duke University Press 2006 Allegory without Ideas Angus J. S. Fletcher 1 As Renaissance authors used to say, allegory is the captain of all rhetorical figures of speech, and we might ask, ‘‘Is it a ship...

... without relation.” [email protected] Copyright ©2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Maurice Blanchot Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography politics literature When did Maurice Blanchot die? This question may be less one of fact than it first appears. The Writing of Disaster offers...

... 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...

...Anustup Basu This essay is a critical evaluation of contemporary urban Hindutva in the light of Carl Schmitt's famous assertion that all liberal political concepts are transposed theological ones. Without agreeing with Schmitt's hard-right nationalism, one can see that from the discursive...

... and walk and sit without filters, without metaphors, and without other preconceived containers for pure experience, we can come to see, with Thoreau, that at the most important level, there is no death. Branka Arsić , Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau ( Cambridge. MA : Harvard University...

...Howard Eiland Drawing on writings of the German Romantic tradition, Werner Hamacher’s aphoristic Minima Philologica develops a philosophy of philology, one operating without the control mechanisms of instrumentalized thought but not without internal rigor. Hamacher conceives philology as an art...

... of archival accumulation and network assemblage, of the materiality of text becoming catastrophic. If the American eschatological imagination continues to project fantasies of annihilation, Wallace quite presciently warns us throughout Infinite Jest that even without the “presence” of the nuclear bomb...

... in postcrisis Japan. In what has become a trend toward singular living and solitary existence—sometimes called Japan's “relationless society” ( muen shakai )—those without human or economic capital are put at risk. The precarity of living/dying without a safety net of others is one sociological fact examined...

... point to the range of positions available within post–Civil War republicanism and indicate that none of these positions was without its attendant difficulties. “An Ireland as Complex and Various as Possible”: Seán Ó Faoláin’s Writings on Partition in the Context of Peace Process Republicanism...

... existing political factions without assuming an attitude of neutrality. The fostering of this social-political consciousness is the task of the student body, conceived as a cultural avantgarde. Benjamin calls for a “new philosophical pedagogy” that would provide an arena for the confrontation of youth...

... “The Working Day” chapter in terms of the tension between dialect and dialectic that it stages without analyzing. In the operations of the text, I argue, there is an aporia that has been remarkably overlooked but that already indicates the difficult path that the pursuit of universalist political projects have...

... the Enlightenment. Philosophical critique can be rejuvenated by paying attention to the texture of the “university in the world,” whereas the “globalizing university” subsumes difference and multiplicity under late capitalist managerialism. Defending the Derridean vision of “the university without condition...

... justifies arguments for a distinct Taiwan identity that resists dissolution into a vague “Chineseness.” The Taiwan case suggests, for the same reason that it is misleading to approach colonialism from nationalist perspectives as an obstacle to national identity without also accounting for the ways in which...

... and intellectual interventions against exclusivist cultural nationalisms may be found in the idea of secular criticism deployed by Edward W. Said, which holds history and historicist thinking as crucial in developing a critical position that can contest essentialist thinking without resorting to the postsecular...

... of all cultural capital without return, either explosively or by playing out the string. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 interpassive subject cultural transformation modern narrator References Bové Paul . 2018 . “ Misaligning Misprisions .” b2o: an online journal...