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differences (2014) 25 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 December 2014
... describes as different accounts of “primal history”—are characterized as the historical products of industrial capitalism as a particular mode of production. Drawing on Marx’s analysis of the contradiction between the relations and forces of production, Benjamin identifies factory labor and crises...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 May 2021
... experience (the effect of therapy or entertainment) is what counts. © 2021 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 disciplines historicity history of ideas history of reception literary theory origin regimes of relevance For what counts...
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 95–128.
Published: 01 April 1997
.... But that is the job Hegel reserves for himself. The dialectic of the Idea that manifests itself as the development of history ultimately culminates, in Hegel's view, in the emergence of modern philosophy, his own philosophy in particular. This philosophy functions as the "mind" to comprehend the process of history...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 9–34.
Published: 01 September 2008
... perform by rote, and vague ideas about “history” that
we draw on in the course of a day for the performance of tasks as various
as running for president of the United States, justifying a policy of war or
economic adventure...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the
idea of productive destruction and, by extension, history in general. This
returns us to Arendt’s reflections on the dis-utility of camps and on totali-
tarian institutions in general—in sum, the other face of the idea of radical...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
... . Auerbach Erich . “ Giambattista Vico and the Idea of Philology .” Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach . Trans. Newman Jane O. Princeton UP , 2016 . 25 – 35 . Auerbach Erich . “ Philology and ‘Weltliteratur’ ” Trans Said Maire Said Edward...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 114–137.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of the History of Ideas 26.1 ( 1965 ): 45 -58. Thiers, Adolphe. “Eclectisme.” La Grande Encyclopédie: Inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts . Vol. 15 . Paris:Société Anonyme de la Grande Encyclopédie, 1886 : 353 -54. Ungar, Steven. “Philosophy after Philosophy: Debate...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 172–181.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... Its purpose was to demonstrate the commonplace idea that
sexual differences are based on nature and should be guided by nature
and that the social differences between the two sexes have shaped history
and would continue to affect...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and understanding. Rather, the idea of community developed in this article is of an open sense of belonging together to race, gender, and place, a sensibility of belonging that expresses one's indeterminate difference, that opens one toward a future and a past, that must be continually renewed through relations...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 36–63.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and other archival documents in order to make a larger theoretical argument about queer reading. Just as Halliwell and Orton juxtapose discordant images, so too do I bring together incompatible theories, histories, and ideas in order to explore the queer possibilities that these odd, improper, and profane...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 78–105.
Published: 01 September 2003
... . Becker, Carl L. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas . New York: Vintage, 1958 . Belknap, Jeremy. The Foresters, An American Tale . 1792. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1969 . Bercovitch, Sacvan. Rites of Assent: Transformations...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 16–44.
Published: 01 July 1992
... of a solid into a gas without going through the liquid phase. Better to bypass liquidity altogether than to risk being caught up in the vagaries of turbulent flows. Irigaray's interest in fluid mechanics did not spring from nowhere. It has a particular history behind it, when ideas appropriated from...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is ahistorical, but only that we require a broader
idea of history to begin to approach its trajectory. This is also not to deny
that forms of triangulation persist within the queerest structures. A person
socially established as a lesbian...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
Published: 01 September 2012
... to the idea that instinct obviates institutional reinforcement when he needs to make the case that social structures are not transparent reflections of human wishes. This article argues that the ambivalence that appears so frequently in Freud’s analysis of instinct highlights the fact that institutions cannot...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 125–152.
Published: 01 September 2016
... is less welcome) in the field by affirming several times what seems essential to him, which is “the definition or defense of a particular idea of social history.” His words display an understanding of harmony and completeness: the history of women and gender cannot form a separate continent; it has...
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differences (1999) 11 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 May 1999
.... Santner, Eric. My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996 . Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness . Trans. and ed. Ida Macalpine and Richard A. Hunter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1988 . Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 124–156.
Published: 01 July 1989
... one conceives of oneself as representative or as an example of something is this awareness that what is one's own, . supposedly, what is proper to one, has a history. That history is unmotivated but not capricious and is larger in outline than we are, and I think this is quite different from the idea...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 109–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Ranjana Khanna This essay considers the clash of different notions of difference as they exist philosophically (through the work of poststructuralism) and sociologically (through diverse placement in the world). It highlights an idea of movement and oceanic archive as a way of resisting notions...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
... time-limited episteme” in a history that is multiple and dispersed ( Tihanov, Birth 7 ; “Romanticism’s” 4 ). In other words, not just the specific terms but the methodological premises of the history of ideas that Tihanov practices, the general approach to the object of research starting...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 54–81.
Published: 01 September 2008
... York: Praeger, 1970 . Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. “Caribbean Revolution and Print Publics: Leonora Sansay and `The Secret History of the Haitian Revolution.'” Liberty! Égalité! ¡Independencia!: Print Culture, Enlightenment, and Revolution in the Americas, 1776–1838 . Ed. David S. Shields...
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