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Patrick ffrench
Issue 120
...will in time attain completion. Barthes values the proleptic, or dilatory gesture over the completed whole; the statement “Plus tard…,” moreover, works in secret as a denunciation of the “monstre...
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Steven Maras
Issue 85
Introduction IN HIS COMMENTARIES ON BERGSON, DELEUZE REITERATES that a key task for philosophy is the stating and creation of problems (Bergsonism 14). In the discussion of his method, Bergson...
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Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
Issue 93
...at their most detailed and microcosmic level, Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer takes an altogether different route to the problematic relationship between politics and thought. Agamben’s is a book whose scope...
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Christopher Norris
Issue 163
...be, capable of writing ‘authentic’ poetry, and a poet who resists that claim on various grounds, personal and philosophical. The opening, strict-form sonnet proposes that the issue be tested by...
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Helen Deutsch
Issue 118
On August 6, 1763, the man who would become the greatest master of anecdotal form in English, James Boswell, and the object of his adulation and future biographical subject, Samuel...
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Devan Baty
Issue 98/99
...chapter, especially, presents a fair amount of background about Renaissance rhetorical theory and pedagogical method. Throughout the book, Gray examines the interaction between rhetoric and gender issues in what he...
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Andrew Sobanet
Issue 119
In a thought-provoking and well-researched new book, Richard Golsan explores the politics of complicity in two heterogeneous groups of French writers. Focusing on the 1940s and the 1990s, Golsan analyzes...
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Mark Bonta
Issue 121
Though it has been claimed that Deleuze sought to delink his thought from all religion (Bryden), a close examination of his major writings, as well as his collaborative work with...
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Ksenia Fedorova
Issue 169
...the apparatus of perception as the mediating component, which is pre- and trans-subjective. Through examples like Marnix de Nijs’s TAST and Michel van der Aa’s opera Upload, I investigate how...
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Ken Rinaldo
Issue 169
This article examines cognition, identity, and agency as distributed across biological, microbial, and algorithmic systems. It challenges the notion of the individual by framing humans as holobionts—complex assemblages of human...
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Mareike Schildmann
Issue 165
...and progressive opposition like Büchner opened for the integration of peasants into the (liberal) revolutionary project. What is the function of literature in negotiating the political agency of the peasant...
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Sylvano Santini, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
...of cross-roads constantly traversed by thinkers and artists, a perpetually moving nerve center that opens aesthetic and intellectual experiences into countless interpretations. This is what was experienced at Cerisy in...
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Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Issue 166
On July 12, 2022, a van caught fire on a small road, the “piste 214,” that winds through the pine forest towards the beach south of La Teste. After several...
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Leah Vonderheide
Issue 169
...sacred burial ground referred to as “The Pines.” The protest was famously documented by Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin in Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993). As Obomsawin’s film depicts, the...
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Richard Joseph Golsan
Issue 85
Hewitt, Nicholas. Literature and the Right in Postwar France: The Story of the ‘Hussards.’ Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1996. 217 pages. Since the mid-eighties, the publication of numerous books and articles...
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Amy Jean Petersen
Issue 85
...Conley in her new book, Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism. Clearly there’s something for women, if one considers the large number of feminist critics who have chosen...
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Jing Tsu
Issue 85
...domination, or the seduction of pleasure. From Freud to Althusser, that question has continually problematized rather than concluded their inquiries. One is struck, for example, in the chapter on conscience...
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Jeffrey Mehlman
Issue 87
...in. Sociologists of French elites, for example, have long traced certain features of French technocracy to the school initiated by Vichy at Uriage (see Bitoun). An eminent historian of French...
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Richard Joseph Golsan
Issue 87
AS PART OF FRANCE’S CONTINUING EFFORTS TO COME TO TERMS with the political and cultural legacy of Vichy, a number of studies published in the eighties and nineties have examined...
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Sarah Rocheville, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 109
...rather a writer who ponders the law, it is perhaps because literature opened up a space from which he could observe life in a much more heightened way than was...
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 129
...[1995]), as well as a seven-volume (and “six-branch”) “récit autobiographique,” which David Bellos has compared to the work of Marcel Proust.1 The three books Roubaud published in 2008 and 2009,...
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Elisabeth Ladenson
Issue 106
Pity the academic book reviewer! Inflation in the language of review is akin to what has happened to letters of recommendation: as a colleague recently observed, hiring and promotion committees...
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Charles J. Stivale
Issue 100
...writer composes two books, one in ink, the other “written in the soul, with silence and blood” (3). This insight inspires Buchanan to find ways to read this “other book”...
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Bryan Counter
Issue 153
...By employing Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism, Gernot Böhme’s discussion of a “new aesthetics” that can account for atmosphere, and Hannah Freed-Thall’s recent Spoiled Distinctions, this article examines the interconnection of...
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Odile Passot, Paul Lafarge
Issue 90
...He cares little whether the common reader understands: “Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential,” he writes in Commentary on the Society of...
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John Mowitt
Issue 152
...the articulation between racial difference and sound by probing the now common association of color and noise, for example, the “pink” noise routinely used as a sleep aid. Despite the...
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Richard Turner
Issue 146
...object from an ordinary rock to a viewing stone that invites close examination and perhaps contemplation. In this essay, I will examine the act of “re-grounding” rocks that have been...
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S.F. Kislev
Issue 151
At what “resolution” does Hegel’s dialectic operate? Does it dictate the transition between arguments in a chapter, or the transition between chapters in a book, or the transition between books...
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Stuart Kendall
Issue 93
...time describes a circle eternally bereft of a center. For Hill, and for us, Blanchot’s oeuvre offers a present that is already past and will always be yet to come....
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 150
...link those images to the photos. The least that can be asked of readers is to keep an open mind when opening La Lecture by Jan Baetens and Milan Chlumsky....
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Irving Goh
Issue 126
...can learn this through yoga) would involve the conscious sharing of air around us. What this sharing does is open us to the fact that the air we breathe is...
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Ole Birk Laursen
Issue 143
...of Ernest Riebe and Ern Hanson in the IWW’s Industrial Worker in the early twentieth century, comics and cartoons have been prominent fixtures in anarchist publications, while comic books themselves...
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Lawrence R. Schehr
Issue 86
...is a tour of the Chinese torture garden that gives its name to the book; it is a series of tableaux serving as fantasized image of Chinese justice and punishment....
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Christian Moraru
Issue 87
Sussman, Henry. The Aesthetic Contract. Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 319. 6 illustr. $49.50 (cloth). In his new book,...
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Sally Shafto
Issue 85
Buskirk, Martha, and Mignon Nixon, eds. The Duchamp Effect: Essays, Interviews, Round Table. An October Book. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1996. Pp. 227. In its first...
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Robert F. Barsky
Issue 88
...Sokal and Jean Bricmont’s Impostures intellectuelles (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997) has been published in translation in the US by St. Martin’s Press. (The British edition was published by Profi Books...
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Steven Hartlaub
Issue 88
...book succeeds in putting the sinister back into seduction by delving beyond the gallantry and honor of eighteenth-century libertinism to uncover what Jean Baudrillard’s Seduction does not adequately apprehend: seduction’s...
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Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Issue 88
...on the first two decades of Louis XIV’s personal reign. Abby Zanger’s book on the marriage of Louis XIV and Maria Teresa of Spain shifts the focus of attention to...
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David Carroll
Issue 87
...February 1942) In order to guide his actions [Xavier Vallat] consulted uniquely the spiritual traditions coming from our national past. . . . Why would we hide our pride that...
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William VanderWolk
Issue 87
Avni, Ora. D’un passé l’autre: aux portes de l’histoire avec Patrick Modiano. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1997. In her most recent book, D’un passé l’autre: aux portes de l’histoire avec Patrick...
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Jan Baetens, Douglas Basford
Issue 123
...possible to tell a story, even to recount oneself, and “outdated notions” of personhood, chronology, mankind, narrative, psychology, history, etc. (Robbe-Grille, 1963) are quietly coming to the fore again. This...
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Debarati Sanyal
Issue 101
...his oeuvre has fundamentally shaped — and continues to shape— our ways of reading cultural production. As an overview of the past fifty years of Baudelaire scholarship will attest, some...
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Réal Fillion
Issue 142
Jacques Rancière, it seems to me, is right: politics are rare (Rancière 1999; May 2008). Democratic political action makes manifest the part that has no part—not as a protest against...
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H. Porter Abbott
Issue 94/95
...works like Hilary and Stephen Rose’s recent Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Harmony Books, 2000), contributors often freeze their target in order to shoot at it....
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Lynne Huffer
Issue 120
...full English translation of Foucault’s first major book, History of Madness, Anglophone readers now have the opportunity to retrace the ethical thread that runs through Foucault’s work from start to...
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Peter Consenstein
Issue 156
...records, and documents the challenging theoretical, national, and literary questions that both French and American poetries of this period address. Lang’s book is composed of an approximately thirty-page introduction, followed...
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Roland Arthur Greene
Issue 109
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s book belongs to a short but dense tradition of retrospectives, proposals, and jeremiads on the topic of Comparative Literature, a discipline always in search of itself. Delivered...
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Christophe Pradeau, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 97
Over the last 30 years, Judith Schlanger has devoted a dozen books to the exploration and description of the intellectual world as it consists of invention, of works–a dynamic space...
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David R. Ellison
Issue 115
David Carroll’s new book on Camus is an important contribution not only to Camus studies but to contemporary reflections on postcolonial theory. The book is a model of scholarship and...
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Marie-Pascale Huglo, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 111
In the cartography of the contemporary French novel, Lydie Salvayre’s oeuvre occupies a place apart—she affirms herself with a singular freedom of tone and a refusal of the serious. The...