... of Contingency (2003). He has also edited the Norton Critical Edition of the Arabian Nights (2010) and introduced, edited, and translated Giorgio Agamben’s Potentialities: Col- lected Essays in Philosophy (1999). lilya kaganovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic, Comparative Litera...

... about “-lecting,” not col lecting. The disposition or gesture of Sammeln does not necessarily tend toward, or long for, collecting in view of a collection. Sammeln leaves what it “ - lects,” on the brink of disinheritance, disintegration, dispossession, incompletion: Streuung . One of the rare...

... with a designated emphasis in critical theory and Jewish studies at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. Notes 1. Franz Kafk a, “The Street Window,” in The Complete Stories (New York: Pantheon, 1983), 412. 2. Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900, in Walter Benjamin: Se- lected...

... academics for quite some time, though it has either been forgotten or conveniently ignored by many faculty. See, for example, C. Wright Mills, “The Powerless People: The Role of the Intellectual in Society,” in The Politics of Truth: Se- lected Writings of C...

... puts it, the thera- pist should “assemble [recueillir] for the other his/her pain” (NB, 346). These formulas are full of ambiguities: if there is no transfer- ence whatsoever, the question is then not only how does this col- lecting or assembling affect the patient himself or herself (does it do...

... above them, attaining his majority by mastering—though not without missteps—a lan- guage in which repetition signifi es stylistic virtuosity, these stunted creatures are forever trapped in an oddly homogeneous Babel of broken languages, of jargons and catchphrases, dialects and idio- lects...

.... No steam. The poems I’ve been writing for the past few years—now col- lected in a new book, Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background— proceed via accretion, addition, piling, stacking. One aphorism— or bite—or pellet—or button—follows another, with maximum parataxis. Parataxis...

..., which is recorded in An- selm’s maxim, credo ut intelligam, apophatic mysticism insists on the priority of feeling over understanding, that is, feeling in the sense of the real movement of will necessary for directing the intel- lect beyond itself and into divine reality. Mystical apophasis...

...- ence each had their own place. What is more, they were even connected to differ- ent subjects. The subject of experience was common sense, something existing in every individual. . . , while the subject of science is the nous or the active intel- lect, which is separate from...

...Peter Skafish Copyright © 2008 Qui Parle 2008 Thinking Alterity, Reprise An Introduction peter skafish The choice of title was not intended to indicate that the articles col- lected here amount to a total return to or retrieval of a supposedly lost or foresworn theme: Thinking...

... 58 In octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis exposito II, lect. 13 n. 4. [The English transla- tion used here is Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, trans. Richard J. Blackwell, Richard J. Spath and W. EdmundThirlkel (New Haven:Yale University Press, 1963...

... of Literature in German Romanticism, trans. Philip Barnard and Cheryl Lester (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988), 8. 2 Arthur Rimbaud, "Letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871," Complete Works, Se- lected Letters, trans. and introd. Wallace Fowlie (Chicago: University of Chicago Press...