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... NEGRI'S "THE EUROPEAN LEOPARDI" TIMOTHY S. MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Antonio Negri is perhaps the most original Marxist thinker of our era, as well as one of the most important figures in contemporary Continental philoso- phy, comparable in many ways to Michel Foucault or Gilles...

... , 1954 ). THE EUROPEAN LEOPARDI 13 THE EUROPEAN LEOPARDI ANTONIO NEGRI Translated by Timothy S. Murphy1 Evoking the 1850s in his article "L'ltalia fuori d'ltalia," Franco Venturi...

...Su Fang Ng This article considers European cross-cultural exchanges with Islamic Southeast Asia from the perspective of language. Earlier assumptions of the superiority of European languages over non-European ones are unwarranted. In the early modern period English was a peripheral language...

... regarding the nature of these reworkings. Some see them as a continuation of the original European models established by Goethe, Dickens, and other European writers. Others find such associations Eurocentric and call for more local standards of evaluation. This article examines this debate by looking...

... of Autonomia, its suppression by the Italian state, and the flight of its members into exile abroad. He credits Negri with the important recognition that the European Left has been and continues to be too focused on the level of national politics when it should instead focus its militant energy...

... the post-Enlightenment project of ideological critique, the unmasking of concealed truth, although he has lost faith in the efficacy of this project. Sloterdijk's account provides a fascinating analogue to European detective figures noted for their “authenticity” or “realism,” and the Wallander series...

... approach to encyclopedism that is simultaneously curious and cautious, polymathic and prudent, wide-reaching and reflective. This “postcolonial encyclopedism,” as he calls it, helps us recognize that encyclopedic narrative, a genre long associated with the giants of European and American literature, may...

... earlier European bildungsromans is, first, its relationship with its revolutionary moment, that is, to the Zimbabwean independence struggle, and, second, its deployment of narration and description, or of realist and naturalist narrative modes, in representing an epistemology of postcolonial resistance...

...Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski This essay investigates the reemergence of Cārvāka materialist philosophy in late sixteenth-century Mughal India and its possible relation to and impact on the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. India's ancient tradition of materialist philosophy (originally called...

...Amrita Sen While considering the many economic and personal relationships forged in the Indian Ocean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the friendships and collaborations among European women and their counterparts in Mughal India often remain neglected. In reality these women traveled...

...Timothy Davies This article explores the “private trade” network of British East India Company merchants in one segment of the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world, foregrounding a new perspective on this element of European commerce in early modern Asia. Much recent work on this topic emphasizes...

...Su Fang Ng © 2015 by University of Oklahoma 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Abu-Lughod Janet L. 1989 . Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250–1350 . New York...

... short and fleeting, and thus on their own they appear unremarkable. But when one reads across an array of European and Arabic historical sources from Yemen, informal patterns of “medical diplomacy” emerge.2 Its recipient, the 2. The term medical diplomacy was coined in 1978 by Peter Bourne...

... , edited by Ballhatchet Kenneth Harrison John , 97 – 121 . Hong Kong : Asian Research Service . ———. 1996 . “The English East India Company in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: A Pre-Modern Multinational Organization.” In The Organization of Interoceanic Trade in European...

... the technological, economic, and political backwardness of oriental cultures. Both camps promote an anachronistic and inaccurate reading of early modern history; both assume that 19th c. discursive conditions can simply be projected onto a much earlier period; and both fail to distinguish between European...

..., 1680–1730 . Amsterdam : Prometheus/Bert Bakker . Blackhawk Ned . 2010 . “The Indigenous West of Mark Twain.” Billington Lecture . Huntington Library , San Marino, CA . Chapman Anne . 2010 . European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin...

... OF OKLAHOMA. ALL RIGHTS OF REPRODUCTION IN ANY FORM RESERVED. 462 GENRE What better reason to write, asks Gilles Deleuze, than the shame of being a man? (Essays 1) What better reason, one might add, than the shame of being born a European, of having been raised...

... years ago (Figure 1). The show was a survey of a number of artistic movements that took place in Africa during the second half of the twentieth century but which had never been discussed in the standard histories of modernism. These national traditions include both spin- offs of European...

..., the limits on certain types of formal complexity imposed by the demands of improvisation, the tensions between tradition and individual cre- ativity, and ultimately the difficulty in evaluating jazz according to the same cri- teria used for music produced in the European tradition of composed "works...

... . ---. 2000 . Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry ( Amherst : Humanity Books ), trans. Hoeller Keith . Karl Löwith . 1995 . Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism ( New York : Columbia University Press ), ed. Wolin Richard and trans. Steiner Gary . Wittgenstein Ludwig...