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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 291–320.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., nor does it belong to just one language, nor is it simply a commonly shared word. Horkheimer’s letter of response to Benjamin’s essay on Fuchs thus informs this second note as much as the first. It elucidates the distinction between complete and incomplete in history by attributing...
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Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 97–130.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., but to keep, incompletion in the work. We may now phrase this problem a lit- tle differently, emphasizing perhaps more starkly the role of histo- ry in the production and transmission of the work (rather than the role of the work in the production and transmission of history...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 221–232.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the goddess.”2 In this essay, a preparation for his compendious and incomplete work The Mystic Fable, de Certeau begins to develop his account of mystics— Michael B. Smith’s English rendering of la mystique—as both a “space” of discourse, rather than a set of doctrines or beliefs...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... is, perhaps, the most characteristic aspect of the procedure of the natural sciences. The whole history of modern Science proves to be a process of progressive emancipation from the innate classification of the external stimuli till in the end they completely disappear. 38 Given the synthesis...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 373–385.
Published: 01 December 2022
... salutations that remain incomplete and incompletable. A further conjugation of Nancy’s reticulate phenomenologies of farewell would also broach the themes of “withdrawal” and “retreat” that are central to his corpus. 25 In Nancy’s ontology of valediction, being manifests as luminous recession...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
Published: 01 December 2022
... life, ingenuity, and history. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2022 religion criticism the secular literature Edward Said The argument of this essay is straightforward: there is an ambiguity in Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., and support- ers such as Norman Brown, observed, there could be a neurotic dimension to efforts at historical recovery: think of how much of history is, at the methodological level, the delineating of events for recovery, that is, the resituating of it as an even more rigorous as- sertion of covering...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the philosopher Zhu Guangqian published the History of Western Aesthetics , in which he devoted a chapter to Chernyshevsky. This article explores how both Zhou and Zhu responded to Chernyshevsky’s proposition on beauty and life, with particular attention to all three thinkers’ engagement with Ludwig Feuerbach’s...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 June 2020
... as we appreciate and appropriate Latour’s work around the clock, we will be troubled and more or less alienated by an image of the West in which critical thought is cast as the enemy of the ways to truth and the fools and knaves of intellectual history are named Galileo, Hume, Kant, Voltaire, Émile...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 433–455.
Published: 01 December 2018
.... But the history of friendship and the history of what humans do with dogs—hunt, herd, feast in public, go to war, work in their studies—is largely a history of men recorded by men, and so we will for the time being have to ask our question, “Why is a dog a man’s best friend?,” as if man stood for “human...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 299–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and thus challenging the idea of an already given nature. Drawing on her previous work in the history of physics, she proposes that scientists develop an ecology of practices. Stengers suggests land- scapes are constituted through contingent relations between human and nonhuman...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 143–178.
Published: 01 December 2001
...- tered the discourse of 1950s art history. Instead, he has been under- stood primarily through his position at MoMA, where he worked in the International Program from 1955 until his death in 1966, first as an assistant, and gradually as a curator;8 his catalogs on Pollock...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 217–245.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of heaven has a history and must be taken as an object of critical inquiry, Marxism is a key moment, and to some extent a rupture, in the history of the certainty according to which humans invent God because of their alleged need of religion. Marxism indeed asserts with the most absolute certainty...
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 235–247.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Genevieve Renard Painter A review of Esmeir Samera , Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History ( Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2012 ). Cited in the text as jh . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 A Figure in Law and the Archive Samera Esmeir and the Making of Juridical...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 177–204.
Published: 01 December 2004
... history, a language sedimented from gestures. It is not possible to ask music what it con- veys as its meaning; rather, music has as its theme the question, How can gestures be made eternal?2 —Adorno Everyone knows...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 1–75.
Published: 01 June 2019
... . With a sudden, curious, and unjustifiable move to compare the question of Sri Lankan Buddhism to that of Thai Buddhism, Hallisey writes that the “explanation [of the emergence of Protestant Buddhism], rooted as it is in the circumstances of modern Sri Lankan history, seems incomplete when viewed from...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 97–110.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., is not French. There is, of course, something called French philosophy. There is, evidently, a French history of philosophy, and it seems clear that, at least as the second half of the twentieth century is concerned, phi- losophy passes into France, or in any case more or less takes...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 57–105.
Published: 01 December 2001
... curiously deflating angle: "Yeah," one hears him say, " — you get this history."9 HegePs Manifesto To find oneself in a world with a history is a luckless event indeed, and most utopias — not just those fashioned by mid-career artists out of materials supplied them...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 215–248.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and, as such, cannot solve the problem of the fetish. 216 qui parle spring/summer 2010 vol.18, no.2 I shall be trying to show, not that Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist philosophy are two incomplete theories of fetishism (two incomplete ways of reading disavowal and repudiation...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 235–261.
Published: 01 June 2012
... back only to 1820, no farther. Sometimes I’ve peered back to 1798, but rarely earlier. And so my fetish of the “backward glance” (in The Queen’s Throat I call it “backstage knowledge”) is an incompletely enacted fetish, a per- formance of pusillanimity. See, I’m thrashing myself! I’m perform...