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Mere Materialism - Aesthetics Of Attrition In Paint, Text, And Paper

by Steven Goldsmith

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 Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the affirmative materialisms prevalent in cultural criticism today, mere materialism in art and literature documents the slow, ordinary violence of routine physical deterioration, including arts own. It inhabits a space where loss can remain nothing but loss, without having to serve any productive or redemptive purpose. Attending to material surfaces and the processes of attrition Goldsmith examines works from Rembrandt to the present that that stand in counterpoint to the typical materialist emphasis on dynamic, generative possibility. These works turn aside from such future horizons to pose a central question: Amid the urgent purposes we ask art to serve, and amid the many values we invest in the concept of materialism, is it possible for art to occupy the everyday damage of erosion and, on occasion, simply let loss be? Wide-ranging in philosophical reference and in discussions of specific materials, conservation theory, and reception histories, the book draws out the phenomenon of mere materialism through a series of extended case studies: a Rembrandt portrait of Saint Bartholomew; Melvilles slave-revolt novella Benito Cereno; a Dada collage by Kurt Schwitters; and recent gray writings by Karl Ove Knausgaard and C. S. Giscombe. Together, these works index an aesthetics of fragility and decay, without presupposing that material vulnerability is in a dialectical relationship with deeper meaning, and without assuming that an encounter with it has a redeeming cognitive, affective, political or social function.
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Holocaust And Hope - Literature, Testimony, Media

by Geoffrey Hartman

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 A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations.
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Holocaust And Hope - Literature, Testimony, Media

by Geoffrey Hartman

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 A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations.
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The Location Of Experience - Victorian Women Writers, The Novel, And The Feeling Of Living

by Adela Pinch

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 The Location of Experience argues that, through manipulating the psychological dimensions of fictionâ€™s formal features, Victorian women novelists produced a philosophical account of experience that rivaled and complemented that of the male philosophers of the period.
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Humanitarian Fictions - Africa, Altruism, And The Narrative Imagination

by Megan Cole Paustian

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 Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Paustian shows how the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives that give African agency its due.
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Concrete Utopianism - The Politics Of Temporality And Solidarity

by Gary Wilder

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 Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.
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Kant On The Frontier - Philosophy, Politics, And The Ends Of The Earth

by Geoffrey Bennington

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 Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are beingoften violentlychallenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders. The frontier is the very element of Kants thought yet the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontiers complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kants most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace. Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.
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Portrait

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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 This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws. The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancys work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis. Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancys book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA. The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.
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Kant On The Frontier - Philosophy, Politics, And The Ends Of The Earth

by Geoffrey Bennington

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 Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are beingoften violentlychallenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders. The frontier is the very element of Kants thought yet the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontiers complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kants most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace. Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.
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Kant On The Frontier - Philosophy, Politics, And The Ends Of The Earth

by Geoffrey Bennington

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 This book examines the figure of the frontier (both bilateral border and open edge of civilization) both literally in Kantâ€™s political writings, and figuratively in Critiques, developing via a reading of teleological judgment the concept of â€œinterrupted teleologyâ€ as a reasoned but non-rationalistic response to rationalism.
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Corporate Romanticism - Liberalism, Justice, And The Novel

by Daniel M. Stout

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 Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developmentsthe rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial actionundermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualisms ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.
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Writing Of The Formless - Jose Lezama Lima And The End Of Time

by Jaime Rodriguez Matos

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 This book proposes the â€œformlessâ€ as a way of thinking through the impasses of contemporary politics. The writing of the formless, as it can be traced in the work of Lezama Lima and the Cuban Revolution, is the point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time.
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Prophecies Of Language - The Confusion Of Tongues In German Romanticism

by Kristina Mendicino

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 Mendicino retraces the ways in which the task of translation is tied in Romantic writing to prophecy, not in the sense of telling future events, but in the sense of speaking in the place of another, such that language takes place in more than one voiceâ€"and tongueâ€"at once, unpredictably.
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Mere Materialism - Aesthetics Of Attrition In Paint, Text, And Paper

by Steven Goldsmith

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Infectious Liberty - Biopolitics Between Romanticism And Liberalism

by Robert Mitchell

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On The Horizon Of World Literature - Forms Of Modernity In Romantic England And Republican China

by Emily Sun

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Portrait

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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by Steven Goldsmith

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The Location Of Experience - Victorian Women Writers, The Novel, And The Feeling Of Living

by Adela Pinch

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 WINNER, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE, MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel constrained from acting. By excavating the history of the rise of experience as an important category of Victorian intellectual life, this book reveals how experience was surprisingly tied to emotions of remorse and regret for some of the eras great women novelists: the Brontës, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, and Elizabeth Gaskell. It shows how these writers passed ideas about experienceand experiences themselvesamong each other. Drawing on intellectual history, psychology, and moral philosophy, The Location of Experience shows that, through manipulating the psychological dimensions of fictions formal features, Victorian women novelists produced a philosophical account of experience that rivaled and complemented that of the male philosophers of the period. The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living is available from the Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.
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The Location Of Experience - Victorian Women Writers, The Novel, And The Feeling Of Living

by Adela Pinch

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 We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel constrained from acting.
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Humanitarian Fictions - Africa, Altruism, And The Narrative Imagination

by Megan Cole Paustian

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 This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.
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The Logic Of Hatred - From Witch Hunts To The Terror

by Jacob Rogozinski

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 This book offers a philosophical and historical genealogy of persecution focused on two significant events: the witch-hunt that took place during the Renaissance and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. It shows how hatred manifests itself in persecution and terror apparatuses.
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The Logic Of Hatred - From Witch Hunts To The Terror

by Jacob Rogozinski

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 This book offers a philosophical and historical genealogy of persecution focused on two significant events: the witch-hunt that took place during the Renaissance and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. It shows how hatred manifests itself in persecution and terror apparatuses.
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New Critical Nostalgia - Romantic Lyric And The Crisis Of Academic Life

by Christopher Rovee

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 New Critical Nostalgia explores literary studyâ€™s nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of Englishâ€"the vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Criticsâ€"in the new light of the midcentury American universityâ€™s tectonic growth.
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