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Comp Lit News Department of Comparative Literature Spring 2009
New York University Comp Lit News Department of Comparative Literature Spring 2009 The Comparative Literature Colloquium: Year Two by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Now in it second year, the student-organized department Colloquium has continued to develop, attracting participation from students and faculty in Comparative Literature as well as other departments in the humanities. Conceived in the fall of 2007 as a forum that would provide graduate stu- dents and faculty with an op- portunity to present their work- in-progress and generate con- versation in what is often a cen- trifugal community, the Collo- quium has increased the variety of events and expanded into Michiel Bot fields questions on his dissertation project: “Right to Offend.” collaborations with other de- “Conscience, Rights, and the during her year of sabbatical. the Colloquium included two partments and colloquia. Its aim Delirium of Democracy.” The It was the first of many occa- inter-departmental collabora- continues to be to nurture the paper, focusing on the con- sions in which participants tions. The first was a presen- intellectual life of the depart- cept of the right to con- chose to present unfinished tation by Paul North ment. science that underlies claims work, which often engen- (Assistant Professor/ Faculty The 2008-2009 Comparative of religious freedom in the dered productive discussion Fellow) from the German Literature Colloquium began American imaginary, is part of in the question and answer department, titled "The Ideal with a presentation by Prof. one of the projects Prof. Rut- sessions. of the Problem: Walter tenburg has been working on During the fall semester, Nancy Ruttenburg, titled (COLLOQUIUM, continued on pg. -
Against the Reproduction of Continental Philosophy of Religion
ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0207-4 OPEN Hexing the discipline: against the reproduction of continental philosophy of religion Marika Rose1 & Anthony Paul Smith2 ABSTRACT There has been a generalised anxiety concerning the future of continental philosophy of religion as a discipline, with a number of books, articles, conferences, and presentations taking up this theme. This anxiety exists because as a discipline continental 1234567890():,; philosophy of religion lacks a clear claim to an identity. This article analyses the anxiety concerning the future of continental philosophy of religion as an anxiety of reproduction. By locating the philosopher’s anxiety within a wider anxiety of reproduction we begin to understand this anxiety through the queer anti-social critique of Lee Edelman. This anxiety is traced through three processes of reproduction: intellectual reproduction, disciplinary reproduction, and institutional reproduction. The article goes on to sketch out a position against the reproduction of continental philosophy of religion by taking on and celebrating the discipline’s improper nature. Appealing neither to secular reason nor to established traditions, we draw on the Malleus Maleficarum (as read through queer theory and non-philosophy) to craft various models for thought. Here we find abortion prized over the future of the race, miscegenation over blood purity, and impotence and infertility over the sovereign power of the father. These models are explored both in terms of their historical context and as pro- viding a different image of the work that can be carried out in the discipline of continental philosophy of religion. The article concludes by suggesting other perverse lines of relation that may be opened up when one gives up on the reproduction of the discipline. -
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Depressive Realism: Readings in the Victorian Novel Christine Smallwood Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2014 © 2014 Christine Smallwood All rights reserved ABSTRACT Depressive Realism: Readings in the Victorian Novel Christine Smallwood This dissertation makes two arguments: First, it elaborates a depressive genealogy of the Victorian novel that asserts a category of realism rooted in affect rather than period or place. Second, it argues for a critical strategy called “depressive reading” that has unique purchase on this literary history. Drawing on Melanie Klein’s “depressive position,” the project asserts an alternative to novel theories that are rooted in sympathy and desire. By being attentive to mood and critical disposition, depressive reading homes in on the barely-contained negativities of realism. Through readings of novels by William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and Charlotte Brontë, it explores feelings of ambivalence, soreness, and dislike as aesthetic responses and interpretations, as well as prompts to varieties of non-instrumentalist ethics. In the final chapter, the psychological and literary strategy of play emerges as a creative and scholarly possibility. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments………………………………………………………..……………….ii Introduction: Depressive Realism, Depressive Reading…………………………..………1 “Made to Go On Pleasantly Enough”: Settling for Vanity Fair………………...……….23 Soreness, Pain, and Comfort: Feeling and Thinking in Trollope………………...……...65 “What is it you don’t like in him?”: Dislike in Jude the Obscure……………………...115 That Burning Clime: Play and Pedagogy in Charlotte Brontë………………………….163 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………200 i Acknowledgments My name is on the cover, but this document is filled with other people’s ideas—some that I was given, some that I overheard or stole, and many that I misunderstood. -
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
brown university spring 2010 Pembroke Center for teaching and research on women 2010-2011 Pembroke Dedication of the Feminist Seminar: The Power and Mystery of Theory Papers Expertise Formally dedicated on February 5, 2010, for the preservation of – and scholarly the Feminist Theory Papers project has access to – the papers. Each set of docu- collected—and will continue to collect— ments is unique, representing that David Kennedy, Professor of Law at Har- materials of scholars who, in the last scholar’s contributions to feminist the- vard Law School and Faculty Director of several decades, have changed the intel- ory as well as to her discipline and, in the Institute for Global Law and Policy will lectual landscape of universities in the some cases, to political work and institu- lead the 2010-2011 Pembroke Seminar. United States and The seminar will explore the question of internationally. expertise. The significance of expertise for Although distin- rulership today is easy to see – in the ver- guished collections nacular of national politics, the manage- of women’s scholar- The Feminist Theory Papers ment of international economic life, the ship exist elsewhere, arrangement of family and gender rela- such as in the tions, and more. But what is “expertise”? Schlesinger History What part knowledge, what part common- of Women in Amer- sense – what portion analytics, argument, ica Collection at Har- lifestyle, character? Expertise is often asso- vard, Brown’s Femi- ciated with professional or disciplinary for- nist Theory Papers is mations; how important are these institu- the only collection tional forms to the practice and that offers a rare reproduction of expert rulership? How perspective on the does expertise write itself into power? rigorous interdisci- plinary work that brought feminism to tion building. -
Philosophy for Spiders Low Theory of Kathy Mckenzie Acker
philosophy for spiders on the low theory of kathy acker mckenzie wark Philosophy for Spiders philosophy for spiders on the low theory of Kathy Acker McKenzie Wark Duke university Press Durham and London 2021 © 2021 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ∞ Project editor: Jessica Ryan Designed by Aimee C. Harrison Typeset in Portrait Text, Helvetica Neue, and SangBleu Kingdom by Copperline Book Services Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Wark, McKenzie, [date] author. Title: Philosophy for spiders : on the low theory of Kathy Acker / McKenzie Wark. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2021004441 (print) lccn 2021004442 (ebook) isbn 9781478013754 (hardcover) isbn 9781478014683 (paperback) isbn 9781478021988 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Acker, Kathy, 1948–1997—Criticism and interpretation. | Wark, McKenzie, 1961– | Experimental fiction, American—History and criticism. | Feminist fiction, American—History and criticism. | Postmodernism (Literature)—United States. | Feminist literary criticism. | Gender identity in literature. | Sex role in literature. | bisac: literary criticism / lgbtq | social science / lgbtq Studies / Transgender Studies Classification: lcc Ps3551.c44 Z95 2021 (print) lcc Ps3551.c44 (ebook) | DDc 813/.54—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021004441 lc ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021004442 Cover photograph: © Kathy Brew Drawings -
March 20–22, 2015 March 20–22, 2015
March 20–22, 2015 March 20–22, 2015 Conference organized in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania’s “Year of Health” initiative Information and registration: www.phf.upenn.edu/all-about-father.shtml Thanks are due to the following institutions for their support: The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia At the University of Pensylvania: Office of the Provost Penn Humanities Forum Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Department of Anthropology Department of History and Sociology of Science Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine. Conference organizer: Liliane Weissberg. Special thanks are due to Allan Madin and David Nelson for assisting with the conference, and to Martina Bale, Administrative Assistant, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Friday, March 20, 2015 Benjamin Franklin Room, Houston Hall 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia 8:00pm | Greetings Liliane Weissberg Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Science and Professor of German and Comparative Literature David Fox Director of Student Orientation, Provost’s Office, University of Pennsylvania James English John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Director of the Penn Humanities Forum Gregory Urban Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Department of Anthropology Lawrence D. Blum, MD Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia The Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture Introduction: Richard B. Cornfield, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Harold P. Blum, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center, and Executive Director, Emeritus, of the Sigmund Freud Archives The Discovery of the Oedipus Complex: A Tale of Two Letters Reception Saturday, March 21, 2015 Eduardo Glandt Lecture Hall, Krishna P. -
Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Naming
"We Embraced Each Other by Our Names": Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Naming Christian Moraru University of North Carolina, Greensboro Emmanuel Levinas' and Jacques Derrida' s theories of names and naming are discussed in a context that casts light upon the complex relationships among names and the named on the one hand, and onomastics and other fields and discourses on the other. Such other fields are anthropology, (cultural) history, politics, and ethics. Levinas' phenomeno- logical view of naming and Derrida's use of Levinas in a markedly "post- structuralist" analysis both stress the moral dimension of onomastic acts, how much is at stake in the way we deal with other people's names. Positioned at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnography, history and geography, folklore and linguistics, onomastics has traditionally raised complex issues on names, their origins, meanings, and social roles. In the wake of the structuralist revolution, continental philosophy and critical theory have further compounded this interdiscipl- inarity by putting a strong moral and political spin on the traditional analyses of names. In what follows, I wish to review some of the newly emerged questions, discuss their nature, and examine the more consequential answers provided by two leading philosophers of naming, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, in their recently translated works on proper names (Levinas 1996; Derrida 1997). Specifically, I would ask in my turn, what does Derrida mean by "politics" or "political" when he talks about "the politics -
Leonardo Reviews
LEONARDO REVIEWS LEONARDO REVIEWS Nuclear Comeback can be helpful, prob- try: “I am not entirely sure that it is Editor-in-Chief: Michael Punt ably not in giving conclusive answers appropriate to include nuclear power Managing Editor: Bryony Dalefield about nuclear power, but in correctly in the regular market economy,” marks presenting its current revival. This Lars-Olov Hoghrud, nuclear engineer Associate Editors: Dene Grigar, movie consists of seven sections deal- at the Swedish plant Forsmark. Martha Blassnigg, Hannah Drayson ing with all the contentious aspects Throughout the video, the scenery A full selection of reviews is pub- of nuclear energy: greenhouse gas portrays overcrowded urban traffic, lished monthly on the LR web site: reduction potential, economics, risks, night-time illumination in Western <leonardoreviews.mit.edu>. accidents, waste management and com- towns, and offices where both advo- parison with renewable alternatives. A cates and opponents of nuclear power worldwide tour of the nuclear industry explain their points of view surrounded takes the audience from plants in Swe- by energy-consuming technological FILM den and England to uranium mines in devices. Even when the discourse turns Australia and the debris of Chernobyl, to renewable energy resources, the offering a direct review of the state of video shows large Aeolian and pho- the art in each sector. tovoltaic plants set on the Northern THE NUCLEAR COMEBACK Despite the claims of its advocates, European seashore or in sunny areas of by Justin Pemberton. Icarus Films, the environmental and economic ben- the African desert. It never questions release 2008, copyright 2007. DVD, efits of nuclear power never emerge the desire to run after such a huge 53 min, closed captioned. -
Avital Ronell - Testing Your Love, Or, Breaking Up: European Graduate School
Avital Ronell - Testing Your Love, or, Breaking Up: European Graduate School. A lecture by Avital Ronell, August 2002 Schirmacher: In this circle we have no need to introduce one of our principal professors here. Without her this program would not exist, I would not be here, you would not be here, and so every year again we are waiting to hear in our face what is happening. Ronell: Thank you very much, you must be high on chocolate. Of course I wouldn’t be here without you either. I tried to pull out some things that might speak to us from a book I’m trying to complete called "The Test Drive", which is on modalities of testing in our modernity. One of the things that I’m going to rely on is something that I’ve developed earlier in this manuscript, which is the concept of rescindability, how you rescind or retract according to exigencies of testing. This is something Nietzsche develops in The Gay Science. My lecture is organized around trying to work through some ethical stances through Nietzsche. So try to consider what I might be meaning by retraction or rescindability, when any solution that might be offered needs to be attacked. I want to look at Nietzsche’s attack mode with you. I want to go over a politics of breaking-up that I think Nietzsche tried to teach us, and I hope you’ll see something that addresses what many of our thinkers have brought and are continuing to bring to us. One thing I’m going to address is Nietzsche’s attack on the concept of fidelity, or loyalty. -
Défense Du Secret
Mon premier est un trésor. Mon second est un poison. Mon troisième est le propre des dieux. Mon quatrième est la nature du cosmos. Mon cinquième peut être ce dont on hérite et que l’on lègue à son insu. Mon sixième est la condition de la séduction. Mon septième est l’adversaire de la transparence et l’allié de la vérité. Mon huitième peut gâcher une existence. Mon neuvième est ce qui permet l’exercice du pouvoir. Mon dixième est synonyme de liberté. Mon onzième est ce que l’on veut savoir. Mon douzième peut être ce qu’il est sage de ne pas vouloir savoir. Mon treizième est le garant de la vie. Mon tout est… Anne Dufourmantelle est docteur en philosophie et psycha- nalyste. Elle a notamment publié Éloge du risque (2011) et En cas d’amour (2009) aux Éditions Payot & Rivages. Collection dirigée par Lidia Breda Du même auteur La Vocation prophétique de la philosophie, Cerf, 1997, prix de philosophie de l’Académie française (1998). La Sauvagerie maternelle, Calmann-Lévy, 2000. Une question d’enfant, Bayard, 2002. Blind date, sexe et philosophie, Calmann-Lévy, 2003. La Femme et le Sacrifice, Denoël, 2006. En cas d’amour, Payot & Rivages, 2009, 2012. Éloge du risque, Payot & Rivages, 2011, 2014. Intelligence du rêve, Payot & Rivages, 2012. Puissance de la douceur, Payot & Rivages, 2013. * Avec Jacques Derrida, De l’hospitalité, Calmann-Lévy, 1998. * American Philo, Avital Ronell, entretiens avec A. D., Stock, 2009. Anne Dufourmantelle DÉFENSE DU SECRET Manuels Payot Retrouvez l’ensemble des parutions des Éditions Payot & Rivages sur payot-rivages.fr Illustration : © Getty Images © Éditions Payot & Rivages, Paris, 2015 et 2017 pour la présente édition ISBN : 978-2-228-91989-0 À Mathieu Terence Préambule Un enfant joue à cache-cache. -
Anne Dufourmantelle
Anne Dufourmantelle Anne Dufourmantelle 2 Ouvrages Anne Dufourmantelle, née le 20 mars 1964 à Paris[1] • De l'hospitalité, avec Jacques Derrida, Paris, et morte le 21 juillet 2017 à Ramatuelle, est une Calmann-Lévy, 1997 (ISBN 978-2-7021-2795-7) psychanalyste et philosophe française. • La Vocation prophétique de la philosophie, Éditions du Cerf, 1998 • La Sauvagerie maternelle, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1 Biographie 2001, édition poche 2016 (ISBN 978-2743636579) • Le Livre de Jonas, en collaboration avec Marc-Alain Née d'un père anglo-suisse et d'une mère française, théo- Ouaknin dans la nouvelle traduction de la Bible des logienne et psychanalyste jungienne, tous deux proches éditions Bayard, 2001 d'Ivan Illich[2], Anne Dufourmantelle passe plusieurs an- • nées en Espagne et en Amérique centrale. Parcours : entretiens avec Anne Dufourmantelle, avec Miguel Benasayag, Paris, Amazon Media, 2001 Docteur en philosophie de l'université Paris-Sorbonne en 1994[3] et diplômée de l'université Brown[4], elle enseigne • Une question d'enfant, Paris, Bayard, 2002 (ISBN à l’École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La 978-2-2270-1103-8) Villette, à l’Institut des hautes études en psychanalyse à • l’École normale supérieure[5], à la New York Universi- Blind Date : sexe et philosophie, Paris, Calmann- ty[6] et dirige la collection d’essais « L’autre pensée » chez Lévy, 2003 (ISBN 978-2-7021-3402-3) Stock. • Du retour : abécédaire biopolitique, A.Pandolfi, 2003 En 1998, Anne Dufourmantelle reçoit le prix Ray- • Negri on Negri : in conversation, avec Anne Dufour- mond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne doté de 5 000 F de mentelle, Taylor & Francis, 2004 (ISBN 978-0-4159- l'Académie française[7] pour La Vocation prophétique de 6895-9) la philosophie, traduit de Nelson Goodman, Langage de l'art et publie un essai, La Structure de comparution. -
La Croix Et La Bannière L'écrivain Catholique En Francophonie
EDITE PAR ALAIN DIERKENS, FREDERIC G U G E LOT, FABRICE PREYAT ET CECILE VANDERPELEN-DIAGRE La croix et la bannière L’écrivain catholique en francophonie (xvne-xxie siècles) Illustration de couverture Saint Augustin d'Hippone (détail), auteur inconnu. Saint-Ghislain, Couvent des Sœurs de la Charité de jésus et de Marie, XVIIe siècle. © IRPA-KIK, Bruxelles. Centre interdisciplinaire d'étude des religions et de la laïcité (CIERL) Directeur : Jean-Philippe Schreiber Directeurs-adjoints : Anne Morelli et Baudouin Decharneux La croix et la bannière L’écrivain catholique en francophonie (xvne-xxie siècles) Dans la même série 1. Religion et tabou sexuel, éd. Jacques Marx, 1990 2. Apparitions et miracles, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1991 3. Le libéralisme religieux, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1992 4. Les courants antimaçonniques hier et aujourd’hui, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1993 5. Pluralisme religieux et laïcités dans l'Union européenne, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1994 6. Eugène Goblet d’Alviella, historien et franc-maçon, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1995 7. Le penseur, la violence, la religion, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1996 8. L'antimachiavélisme, de la Renaissance aux Lumières, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1997 9. L’intelligentsia européenne en mutation 1850-1875. Darwin, le Syllabuset leurs conséquences, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1998 10. Dimensions du sacré dans les littératures profanes, éd. Alain Dierkens, 1999 11. Le marquis de Gages (1739-1787). La franc-maçonnerie dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens, éd. Alain Dierkens, 2000 12. « Sectes » et « hérésies », de l’Antiquité à nos jours, éd. Alain Dierkens et Anne Morelli, 2002 (épuisé) 13. La sacralisation du pouvoir. Images et mises en scène, éd. Alain Dierkens et Jacques Marx, 2003 14.