... , 2018 . Salecl Renata . A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . Sullivan Shannon , and Tuana Nancy . “ Introduction .” Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance , edited by Sullivan Shannon...

...: The Translator's Unconscious.” Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline . Ed. Riccardi Alessandra . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2002 . Print . Eleanor Kaufman On Not Knowing the Original Language: French Philosophy against...

... War and the Hellenic Splendor of Knowing: Levinas, Euripides, Celan lovcou d j ejxevbain j [Arh", kovra" e[rga Pallavdo". (Ares was emerging from his ambush— [it was] the doing of the maiden Pallas...

...MICHELLE L. ZERBA Doubt is intrinsic to our situation as beings immersed in a world that connects us to people at the same time that it renders impossible the certainty of knowing their minds. It has both an affective side that is linked with such kindred emotions as fear, anxiety, and suspicion...

...Robert Weninger In our era of ever accelerating globalization, scholars of Comparative Literature are increasingly required to study texts from cultures they do not know and written in languages in which they are not proficient. As a result more and more comparatists find themselves called upon...

... broadly, it finds in imagined encounters with resistant interiors answers to the question of what it means to want to know, to understand, or to relate to an other and argues that, in the face of irrevocable remoteness, poetry's potential for repair resides in the restoration rather than resolution of its...

... clothes, leaving him only a pauper's vestments. In the Arthurian tale, the problem posed is how to know the true inner self when two identical-looking women both claim to be the “true” queen — a question that is complicated by the fact that the “true” Guenevere has been “false” for many years due to her...

... Smithson in Spiral Jetty (1972), to D'Arcy Thompson's writing on the mathematics of biological and zoological examples of spirals and sea shells (1917), and to Vicuña's more recent poetic experiments in text, form, and philology in Instan (2002). The construction of alternative modes of “knowing...

... . . . I have this problem with really an unnecessary diffidence about the fact that I am read. You know, I am kind of a nervous writer . . . so I was not in a frame of mind where I would respond to responses, you know. And for me, responsibility is a huge idea, you know, answering. And so I enjoyed...

... soon, how very soon, things will be —different!” Derrida responds at length, and I cite him at length: What a sentence! Is it a sentence? Do we know that—that things will be different; and how very soon things will be different? Do we not already know that? Can that be measured by knowledge...

... in “The Masque”; for a discussion of the form, see Gordon 295-96. 5 All citations of “Canzone” are from this edition. As far as I know, “Canzone” has not been the subject of any sustained interpretative efforts. John Blair calls the poem “Perhaps [Auden’s] most dazzling piece of virtuosity” but does...

... character of knowledge, the slippage by which we fall back from the desire to know things in their complete otherness to the often rather predictable ideas we have about them. None of that is actually my theme today. I will be talking about a moment — an epoch, if you believe me — in the history...

... the utter annihilation of the being-there that is their absolute ontological ground.1 One can imagine one’s corpse, one can witness the dying of others or the dead, but one cannot know or imagine being dead, itself an oxymoronic formulation. To translate: how could we, to the extent that we...

.... There we sang the songs, said our Cub Scout pledge, and attempted to ori- ent ourselves, somewhat awkwardly, toward the profoundly American ethos of the Scout Handbook. As those of you who have been in the Cub Scouts know, much of it revolves around receiving badges for various sorts of activities...

... against Darwinism, not those stemming from know-nothing reli- gious outcry, but those rooted in philosophy. These objections contend that, far from offering a compelling theory, Darwinism undercuts its own scientific author- ity and even refutes itself—that it takes away our reason to believe...

... fiction. 4 Know thy enemy, know thy self: as a novel that follows in the tradition of rivalry, Elizabeth Costello anticipates and even challenges the gap between the text as it is reconstructed for the purposes of ethical criticism and the text as it is written. Whereas the critical reception...

... happened, and in which everyone knows they didn’t” (3). This is no paean to the “glorious uselessness” of the literary arts; Landy’s approach is cheerfully utilitarian (8). But he is particular about what use he claims for literary study. Skills, as opposed to knowledge (moral, historical...

... programs to cancel is the idea that a broad education, and a large group of people benefiting from such education, is a public good. I don’t know Arabic or Tamil or Old Norse myself, but it enriches my life to be in a circle of people that includes some who do. I don’t play in a symphony orchestra...

... conventionally successful Englishing does. Improbable —​but how would one know? On what grounds would one make such a decision? What might be at stake in deciding one way or another 2 I say “nameless translator,” but this isn’t true of recent editions of the “Asterix...

... to leverage different political projects, and this leveraging knows no disciplinary boundaries. Patrick Wolfe once famously said that colonialism is a structure, not an event, and I would say that such structures form an epistemological network of which we are a part and in whose production we are complicit...