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Before Truth: Walter Benjamin’s “Epistemo-Critical Prologue”
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 19–60.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and writing, through an attentive reading to the idioms of his own writerly presentation. Copyright © 2017 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2017 Walter Benjamin presentation The Origin of the German Mourning Play phenomenology Hermann Cohen Unquestionably, one of most famous statements found...
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Derrida's Ouija Board
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
... no origin. The Derridean conception of
mourning thus shares with both spectrality and hauntology a fun-
damental displacement of ontological suppositions. It is not sim-
Peterson: Derrida’s Ouija Board 99
ply that the other is present here and now...
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The Time of My Life
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 249–269.
Published: 01 December 2017
...”—or, with ears tuned to the German language, “mothering”—and stick it onto the subphenomena that constitute speech at its lowest capacity to say or mean. I am thinking of the registry of innovative sighs and groans, the low yowl that Friedrich Kittler locates as the start-up of German literature. Even here I...
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The End of Sex and the Last Man: On the Weimar Utopia of Ernst Jünger's “Worker”
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 103–136.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of
Representation," New German Critique. no. 59. Spring/Summer 1993. pp. 41-76.
50 Ernst Friedrich, Krieg dem Kriege (originally published in 1924) (Berlin: Anti-Kriegs-
Museum, 1999).
51 Michael Jennings, "Agriculture, Industry, and the Birth of the Photo-Essay...
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Mad Raccoon, Demented Quail, and the Herring Holocaust: Notes for a Reading of W. G. Sebald
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... York: Modern Li-
brary, 2001), 4. Hereafter cited as A.
3. W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn, trans. Michael Hulse (New York:
New Directions, 1998), 36. Hereafter cited as RS. All unmarked pag-
es referenced in parentheses are to this edition. The original German
edition of Sebald’s...
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Message in a Bottle: Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt's History and Obstinacy
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 215–227.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., diagrams, commentaries, and excursuses. In the
original German preface, they state that their main interest is in
216 qui parle spring/summer 2015 vol. 23, no. 2
the category of Zusammenhang, a rich word they use to describe
instances of connection, correlation, juxtaposition...
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The Sorrow of Being
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of
ancient traditions for which the former derives from the latter, for
instance, in Genesis 3, where sorrow apparently enters the world
via sin, or in the Buddhist concept of dukkha, the fundamental dis-
ease, original to desire, through which the fi rst of the Four Noble
Truths, all life is sorrowful...
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Read Yourself!: The Griffin Condition on the Day before the Last Day
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
... was subsequently adopted (with different emphases) in French and German territories. 9 The biopolitical language of the English promulgations stuns and is worth noting: It should be known that all Jews, in whichever kingdom they may be, ought to be under the guardianship and protection of the liege king; nor...
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The Secret Adorno
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 June 2004
... striking are the names from twentieth-cen-
tury German poetry that do not find a prominent place in Adorno's
work: Rilke, Brecht, and Hofmannsthal. A study on Celan was, of
course, planned but never realized.2
The question is then: What is it about conservative poets and
restorative lyric...
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The Death of Freud: What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence?
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 June 2010
... resurrection of the dead by new technologies of the body.
I want to bring this original thinker into play here because his
work stems from a radical attachment to the Father that seems to
contradict the usual Freudian notion about the original murder as
developed in Totem and Taboo...
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An Emotional Hegel
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 177–184.
Published: 01 December 2014
... insofar as it resists two other possible ways of articulating it.
The fi rst, originally offered by Kierkegaard himself, sees in Hegel
a demented (ontotheological or egological or pantheist) metaphy-
sician unable to deal with individual existence— a caricature de-
ployed by many critics of Hegel...
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The Rights of the Infinite
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 223–251.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Reverend War Character”
The Right to Have Rights
Readers of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism have
long hailed it as a ground-breaking analysis of modern mass atroc-
ity. However, we are only recently beginning to plumb the depths
of its critical account of human rights. According...
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“Shadow Boxing”: Empty Blows, Practice Steps, and Nature's Hold
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 137–177.
Published: 01 December 2016
... fall/winter 2016 vol. 25, nos. 1–2
opponent, as a form of training.” In his 1991 book translated as Ecologi-
cal Enlightenment, the German sociologist and philosopher of risk Ul-
rich Beck uses the metaphor in the course of distinguishing “the new
ecological confl ict...
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Conspiracy Rises Again: Racial Sympathy and Radical Solidarity across Empires
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 December 2019
... census report would provide the British Raj with a systematic structure of caste and color, and German Indologist Max Muller, whose philological work made a case for the Indo-Aryan migration theory, in which a single racial origin in the Caucuses diverged eastward to India and westward to Europe...
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On the Miniature, the Modern, the Metropolis
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 171–184.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of German
modernism shift s the focus onto a mode of writing that had hitherto
received little attention, yet which—according to Huyssen—may be
“more central to . . . literary modernism than the novel or poetry.”5 Be-
lated, because it indeed begged the question what had caused...
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“A World Unsuspected”: The Dynamics of Literary Change in Hegel, Bourdieu, and Adorno
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 57–105.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Steve Evans Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 "A WORLD UNSUSPECTED": THE DYNAMICS OF
LITERARY CHANGE IN HEGEL, BOURDIEU, AND
ADORNO
Steve Evans
The problematic of literary change has engaged every generation of
writers and critics since the German Romantics at the turn...
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On Climate Refugees : Biopolitics, Aesthetics, and Critical Climate Change
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 309–325.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,” 71).
Though not specifi cally engaged with climate change—a scientif-
ic diagnosis familiar only to expert bodies and a handful of activists
in 1983—Derrida’s questions concerning the “us” of the contem-
porary oikos and its crisis are germane to the recent published vol-
ume Climate Refugees...
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Queer Procreation: Reading Kleist Plantwise
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 137–166.
Published: 01 June 2019
... to carry the foundational trauma of her nation: the genocide (of the male members) and the mass rape (of the female members) of her original people (the Scythians). A queer attraction develops between Penthesilea and Achilles—partly colliding with and partly succumbing to heteronormative expectations—until...
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Who Speaks? Thirtieth Anniversary Dossier: Interventions
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 295–382.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., it’s an inescapable sickness that comes from Zeus.” 100 Qui parle? is the watchword of critique. Against sham neutrality, Nobody’s shimmering emptiness is defiantly sketched in, and the play of interest emerges to fill out the contours. No origin, but the ubiquity of position; less who...
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Can a Dog Really Be a Man’s Best Friend?: An Exchange between Humans
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 433–455.
Published: 01 December 2018
.... Unlike the Germans—humans, who treated the prisoners as animals—Bobby, the animal, behaved to them as to humans: “He would appear at morning assembly and was waiting for us as we returned, jumping up and down and barking in delight. For him there was no doubt that we were men.” 10 A more general...
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