...Alfonso Mendiola; Monique Dascha Inciarte Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Alfonso Mendiola CONFLICT OR UNION IN DIFFERENCE: INSTITUTION, BELIEF, AND HERESY TRANSLATED BY MONIQUE DASCHA INCIARTE T his essay presents the following thesis: Michel de Certeau's entire...

... always tentative and provisional, ready to be relinquished at any moment. At least when it comes to the relationship between selfhood, style, and art, Proust had a set of pretty robust beliefs; and those same letters, along with elements of the novel itself, also show that he wasn’t flying without...

... witness to the philosophical importance of these issues: in his philosophical poem Acerba , Cecco attacks Dante’s love poetry for harboring deterministic belief. Issues posed by the nexus of love and compulsion are persistent in Dante’s writing, forming a thematic skein to which Dante returns throughout...

... pattern that comes to characterize not only food but also bodies, clothing, décor, narrative form, and modes of attention and belief. I argue that the aesthetics of patchwork and collage extend as well to Sue’s self-fashioning as a political and moral opportunist. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees...

... their domain. In writing stories of heresy, on the other hand, we are bound to repeat the same discourse that constituted their infractions of orthodox belief and the social order. When do we hear the voice of the heretic? When does the testimony in the archives open the possibility of listening to voices...

...-not exactly the underside of the sacred, but its haunting. How did rituals of belief redefine matter and spirit, persons and property in the Americas? Locke describes the "self" as "that conscious thinking thing, whether substance made up of (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters...

... a rapprochement by showing that theater phenomenologists and medieval effects masters are both willing to embrace the ontological work of nonhuman actants. Such crossings (as Latour would call them) of belief and doubt, symbolization and resistance, religion and technology will in turn enable me to reflect...

... his religious beliefs pervade his thought is a necessary first step to deciphering his larger project. To comprehend his claims, we must delve into those parts of Pascal's writing that are perhaps uncomfortably fervent in their religious ardor. There is one major strand of Pascal scholarship that has...

... beliefs and practices of native peoples fell to the diocesan bishops, and in the seventeenth century, doctrineros. Doctrineros were responsible for reinforcing their charges' newly acquired Christianity and dissuading them from sinning as idolators-the converted who returned to the pagan religion...

... . “ A Metaphysical Turn? Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence .” Radical Philosophy 187 ( 2014 ): 37 – 44 . The final two essays in the volume use Latour’s Inquiry to examine the unstable dialectic of belief and doubt evident in late medieval religion. In her “Bruno Latour and the Loving...

... churches, including the French one, at the same time being increasingly reluctant to relax its own positions. Amadieu perceptively sees this evolution as a way to resist the nineteenth-­ century rise of democ­ ratic beliefs. Quoting Tocqueville s opinion expressed in the second volume of Democracy...

..., not only on account of the moralist thematics and religious language that so pervade the works and the letters from readers. It is also due to the distinct ways in which various evolving frameworks of religious belief and practice in the early modern era had shaped conventional uses of books along...

... of today as sexual identity, a nexus of gender performances, desires, beliefs, and acts-but that are not necessarily aberrant vis-a-vis contemporary norms that regulate sex and gender. Using the term here in a somewhat limited but still flexible way can help us to illuminate how Christine's critique...

..., prodigious as it is"] (537).21 Montaigne was evidently aware of the conception of la musique celeste, the belief in the link between the proportions of astronomical structures and those of music.22 But rather than extol the perfect harmonies assumed by most medieval thinkers, Montaigne shifts his language...

... that the tellers of the City of Brass story and their audiences shared knowledge of medieval alchemical and talismanic knowledge, as well as shared belief in khaāṣṣ —a conception of the material world and its powers. Such knowledge (and the powers of stones and minerals) was not antithetical with Qur’anic Islam...

... . Davis starts from James’s own distinction between, on the one hand, “dead feelings, dead ideas, and cold beliefs” and, on the other hand, “hot and live ones” (2), a distinction meant to help us set up “intimate and continuous connections” (4) with what surrounds us, blow open “the walls of rigidified...

.... (lines 17–19, 25–28) The foolish masses are so naive that they have their beliefs and hopes in phony, untrue things. . . . Through this example I tell you: it is like this for the ignorant one, who believes that which cannot be, driven by deceptive things. Although the term employed...

... author still has to teach us about judgments of taste. In brief, I argue that Stendhal’s definition of beauty preserves the possibility of our experiencing the beautiful exactly contrariwise to how Nietzsche and later philosophers have construed him. His account functions as a reminder of his belief...

..., and shortly after that the eternal recurrence became the central mythopoeic conception to be willed by Zarathustra. Here too, the 4. I adopt throughout the more common form of "superhistorical" rather than Hollingdale's "suprahistorical." 128 MICHAEL BELL idea is not argued as a plausible cosmological belief...

... with ambiguity, contradiction, and overdetermined meanings that threaten the coherence of any systematic order but must not be set aside lest we collaborate in the erasure of “attitudes, beliefs, and practices below the threshold of social and historical visibility” (65). Guynn shows in exquisitely researched...