...Timothy S. Murphy INTRODUCTION TO GILLES DELEUZE'S "PHILOSOPHY OF THE SERIE NOIRE" TIMOTHY S. MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA No one should mistake the text here translated, a celebration of the famous French line of hardboiled detective novels the Serie Noire (inaugurated by Edi...

...Gilles Deleuze © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 PHILOSOPHY OF THE SERIE NOIRE GILLES DELEUZE TRANSLATED BY TIMOTHY S. MURPHY The Serie Noire is celebrating an important event: its 1000th volume.1 There is a coherence to this collection, an idea...

...William B. Covey Conrad Mark T. , Ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir . Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky , 2006 . xv , plus 248 pp. COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 352 GENRE Mark T. Conrad, Ed. The Philosophy...

...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...

... trends in literature and philosophy, and, more briefly, more recent debates in political philosophy, the essay demonstrates that Glasgow was much more cosmopolitan and historically minded than former treatments of her work (which stress her southern heritage) have led us to believe. Finally, the essay...

...Michelle Koerner This article examines the use of George Jackson's prison letters in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and argues that the citations of Jackson in the books Deleuze wrote with Félix Guattari and Claire Parnet are best understood as an insinuation of the black radical tradition...

... of sensory input, and modifies it, using ideas that belong to comic theory and to seventeenth-century philosophies of the passions. His literary criticism thus reveals the way the self depicted in Jonsonian comedy, driven historically by the humors, gives way to a new, imitative model of the self driven more...

.... Formal expressions of epistemic contingency—skepticism’s appearances across a spectrum of literary conventions—function not as abstract philosophy but as mechanisms that shore up the conceptual integrity of a literary text’s wider generic tradition. Instead of imposing a sequence of ruptures in literary...

... are salvifically coextensive. On the political level, Lily's artistic vision neutralizes Mr. Ramsay's sovereignty by putting his linear journey to a new, playful use—a pure means without end. Given that Agamben laments the scission in the Western cultural tradition between philosophy and poetry, it seems germane...

...–present), which critiques the Old Weird's reactionary politics by adopting a radically affirmative perspective on the body and the alien. During the New Weird period, philosophy and critical theory are also infected with weird elements of nihilism and radical antihumanism, as in the speculative realist...

... to a knowledge of another person's character that is often termed “belief.” The author elaborates the complex role belief plays in British empiricist texts by John Locke and David Hume and in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century treatises on evidences directly influenced by empiricist philosophy, where one...

...” as a practical means to grasp the linkage between ontology, ethics, and politics in Spinoza's philosophy. © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Negri’s Untimely Spinoza pierre macherey, université de lille iii translated by timothy s. murphy, university of oklahoma For Antonio Negri, Baruch...

...,” a concept from a branch of analytic philosophy called metaphysics, in response to these objections. It then provides a sustained formal analysis of Jean Toomer's Cane (1923) to demonstrate trope theory's superior ability to account for generically hybrid narrative texts and its ability to yield a seemingly...

..., is itself an incoherent (and therefore, strictly speaking, irrational) quest of modern philosophy and social theory, then how should we understand secularization as a permanently “unfinished” project? © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. 1997 . Aesthetic...

... recent alliance with the Nietzschean poststructuralism of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, to Lenta ginestra (1987), his massive study of the Italian Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi. Negri finds in Leopardi's work not only a sophisticated philosophy of language but also a materialist ontology...

... pensiero negativo da Nietzsche a Wittgenstein ( Milan : Feltrinelli ). Declève Henri . 1970 . Heidegger et Kant ( The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff ). Goldmann Lucien . 1977 . Lukács and Heidegger: Toward a New Philosophy ( Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul ), trans. Boelhower...

..., and when I opened it, I was surprised to see how many of its margins were marked with notes and exclamation points. Sur- prised because Cage was not an artist who read much philosophy. Kant, Niet- zsche, Heidegger, Adorno—I never heard Cage express the slightest interest in any of the above...

.... His popular philosophy in English helped an entire stratum of people shut out from University education to take up a vocabulary and a program.2 Many skilled and socially-mobile people in the first half of the 'On Bacon's value to a rising and progressive middling (if not precisely...

...: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, translated by Patricia Dailey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). Contemporary continental philosophy, particularly the tendency that is known in the Anglophone world as "post-structuralism", has rarely been directly interested in religion...

...Tessie Prakas Poetry's relationship with philosophy is the subject of a number of recent works in early modern studies, and Coming To offers a highly original account of why. Harrison demonstrates how a shared concern with “the earliest glimmerings of consciousness” (4) animates both...