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differences (2008) 19 (3): 126–138.
Published: 01 December 2008
... the classification of rhythmic processes that are purportedly differentiated by sex and offers a note of skepticism about the comparative classifications of reproductive and sexual impulses by sex. Finally, it treats the work's metaphysics of expression and tendency, inspired by Schelling's metaphysics, so...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 73–102.
Published: 01 December 2009
... contributes to this effort by conducting a genealogy of the political anthropology at the root of sovereignty, focusing on the notion of habit . It argues that the anthropology of sovereignty is deeply entrenched in a form of Christian metaphysics, which crystallizes in St. Augustine's conception of habit...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 179–193.
Published: 01 December 2009
... intended as a critique of teleology. The question of individuation is thus referred to its ontological roots in the conflict between Aristotelian metaphysics (priority of act over power [ potentia ] and of final cause over efficient and material causes) and Spinozist metaphysics (power [ potentia...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 128–167.
Published: 01 May 2008
... by the materiality of human uniqueness together with its necessary relationality and vulnerability. Sceptical of postmodern, poststructuralist, and deconstructive theories that share a refusal of ontology and an avoidance of metaphysical closure, Cavarero points out that such a refusal tends to think ontology...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 148–178.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., the authors see it emerging in Jacobean tragedy whenever something happens to the body of the legitimate monarch and poses a threat to culture itself, endangering kinship along with the metaphysics of kingship. In Hobbes's Leviathan , sovereignty is no longer immanent in nature and the order of the universe...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 197–205.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Vicki Kirby Metaphysical terms like science, matter, nature , and reality have always been in limbo in critical theory; scholars have deconstructed and problematized and critiqued them, yet they still will not go away. Debates over science’s relationship to discourse and knowledge particularly...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 96–127.
Published: 01 May 2008
... to and in varying degrees dependent on other people. This investigation of the “fetal subject” in Cartesian metaphysics reveals a relational side to the Cartesian “cogito,” a surprising revelation insofar as Descartes often takes the blame (or credit--depending on one's adherence to liberal ideals) for providing...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 59–89.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Stefan Mattessich This essay builds on previous criticism highlighting the semiotic dimensions of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping to identify in its metaphors of spirit and spiritual haunting a performative logic of social implication. This logic appears within a metaphysics of subjectivity...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 40–86.
Published: 01 May 2009
... conjunction of necessity and impossibility, distinct from previous forms of contradiction (antinomies in Kant and dialectical contradiction in Hegel) and therefore historically situated in relation to the tradition of metaphysics. He argues that the other two modal categories, possibility and contingency...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... the metaphysics of potentials and tendencies that she attributes to Irigaray impedes social change by inevitably reinstalling the actual as the horizon of possibility. Irigaray's strategy of reading texts and cultures for their constitutive exclusions offers a solution to this problem. © 2008 by Brown...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 211–234.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as silence.” I trace the appearance of this linking of silence to the metaphysical language of presence in the work of Cage, Foucault, and Derrida. My argument is that, while the regime of silence is linked to a dialectic of being and nothingness, plenitude and finitude, the fullness of meaning or the ground...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 109–129.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and ethical practice; during the Han and Wei (220-65 ce ) dynasties, she plays an important role in the integration of yin and yang metaphysics, social morality, expressions of individual feeling, and legal order into a harmonious and cohesive aesthetic and ideological structure. This article examines...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Mikko Tuhkanen “Homomonadology” outlines the emergence and elaboration of Leo Bersani’s onto-ethics/aesthetics over the past half a century, focusing particularly on his interest in the shared references to Leibnizian metaphysics in twentieth-century philosophical and literary texts. The essay...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 252–258.
Published: 01 May 2023
...William Haver This essay explores Leo Bersani’s concept of the “continuity of being,” a concept that attempts to overcome the epistemophiliac Cartesian dissociation of res cogitans from res extensa by means of phenomenological considerations of the proximate milieu, as well as a metaphysical...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the material dimensions (volume and capacity) of the hold of the slave ship but also the metaphysical violences that captive Africans underwent in the hold. Through poethical meditations on the hold of the ship, the essay offers Black holds as a practice of Black women’s sexuality. The essay concludes...
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 95–128.
Published: 01 April 1997
...-and in so doing liberates human sensual desires from the constraints of metaphysical ideas, while at the same time subjecting such desires to what Herbert Marcuse calls "repressive desublimation" (56) -much of the academic Left is engaged in a campaign to put the mind on trial with the jouissance...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 93–104.
Published: 01 July 1989
... thought to the wish for an end to the regime of metaphysics, an event which, like the Second Coming, is sometimes held to be at hand but resolutely refuses to occur. In Toril Moi's reference to it, for instance, the event appears to be impending: " if, as Derrida has argued, we are still living under...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 38–58.
Published: 01 July 1989
... and Cixous to some of the major transatlantic feminist critics and theoreticians. Essentialism, in this view, is complicitous with Western metaphysics. To subscribe to the binary opposition man/woman is to remain a prisoner of the metaphysical with its illusions of presence, Being, stable meanings...
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differences (2001) 12 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 May 2001
... . ———. L'éthique du don: Jacques Derrida et la pensée du don . Ed Jean-Michel Rabatéand Michael Wetzel. Paris: Métailié-Transition, 1992 . ———. “Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas.” Writing and Difference . Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978 . 79 –153...
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differences (2005) 16 (1): 63–102.
Published: 01 May 2005
... forms that preceded
the novel—most fully, and possibly uniquely, the Homeric epic, which is
not, properly speaking, an aesthetic form at all, but emerges out of a soci-
ety in which aesthetics is always already metaphysics...
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