Genet et la politique : entretien

Discussion sur Genet et la politique, à la suite d'une table ronde avec Jacques Derrida, au Collège international de philosophie

Forgetting, Amnesia, Theory: An Interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté

No abstract (available)

Pictures of the past : Benjamin and Barthes on photography.

This paper explores the key moments in Benjamin’s and Barthes’s analyses of the cultural significance of the photograph. For Benjamin these are; the optical unconscious, the transmission of aura, the representation of cultural and political decay and proto-surrealist political commentary. For Barthes they are; the techniques of the photographer, the studium, the punctum and the ecstasy of the image. These rather different approaches to photography reveal a common concern with history. Both authors have written about the nature of historical understanding and photography has provided both with a powerful metaphor. What emerges from their analyses of photographs is that each evokes a double moment of historical awareness; of being both in the present and in the past. For Benjamin this is the ‘spark of contingency’ with which the aura of past existence shines in the present. For Barthes it is the ‘ça-a-été’, the emotional stab of awareness that what is present and visible in the photograph is irretrievably lost in the past

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape: Remembering Kant, Forgetting Proust

This article draws on Samuel Beckett’s recently published letters and archival scholarship to consider the place of Immanuel Kant’s critical epistemology within Beckett’s early thinking and his subsequent works. Beginning from Beckett’s engagement with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, demonstrated by notes taken from Wilhelm Windelband’s A History of Philosophy between 1932 and 1933, excerpts from Jules de Gaultier’s From Kant to Nietzsche in the “Whoroscope” Notebook, and Beckett’s acquisition of Immanuel Kants Werke in 1938, I offer a close analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of Beckett’s parody of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu in Krapp’s Last Tape. The larger purpose of this article is to argue that a critique of metaphysical thought can be found in Beckett’s work and to demonstrate that Kant’s influence as a philosophical source of this critique has been largely overlooked in Beckett criticism

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

Cover -- Tilte Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as "Theory'' -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel -- Stylistic Treatments of Individual Subjectivity by Women Writers -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Modernisms High and Low -- Ich bin schon da -- Why, the fellow writes for money -- King Ludwig II amusing himself in the cave of the Venusberg -- What after all is left to do but scream -- The devil speaks Adorno's mind -- Wagner the spider -- Sch¨onberg the builder -- Kafka the run of the mill insurance company employee -- He over whom Kafka's wheels have passed -- Luk´acs of the Postmodern . . . -- Kafka's axe -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory -- Worrying about Modernism -- Broadening Modernism -- Coda: Literature in Theory -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism -- Literary Experts, Imperial Networks -- Imperial Places, Novelistic Settings -- Global Culture, Global Experts -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Reactionary Modernism -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth -- James George Frazer and the Reinvention of the Sacred -- Jane Ellen Harrison's ''Daimonic'' Imagination -- Oedipus, Freud, and the Therapist as Sooth-Sayer -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia -- Modernist OrientalismsModernities -- Asian modernisms -- Asian Futures for Modernist Studies? -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Translation Studies and Modernism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts -- The So-Called ''Inward Turn'' -- The Manuscript as ''Environmental Vehicle'' -- Non-Epiphanies -- Case study -- (De)composition, Bricolage, and Worldmaking -- References -- Chapter 14 Modernism and Visual Culture -- References -- Chapter 15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts -- Podiatric Modernism -- Walking Wild -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things -- References -- Chapter 17 Glamour's Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism -- The Other -- Care of the Self -- Moral Goods -- The Event -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Queer Modernism -- The Grammars of Queer Modernism I: Sexology -- The Grammars of Queer Modernism II: Decadence -- The Grammars of Queer Modernism III: The Wilde and Hall Trials -- General Characteristics of Queer Modernism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova -- Modernism as a Field -- Modernism and Cultural Capital -- Casanova and the Space of Literary Modernity -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy -- Biopower -- Degeneration -- Idiocy, Imbecility, Feeble-Mindedness -- An Exemplary Case: Joseph Conrad -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 23 From Parody to the Event -- from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism -- NotesReferences -- Chapter 24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 Ranci`ere's Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess -- The Logic of Excess and the Self-Different Community -- The Aesthetic Regime -- Modernism and the Paradox of the Aesthetic Regime -- A Politics of the Aesthetic Regime -- Notes -- References -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Pekka Tammi, Problems of Nabokov's poetics : a narratological analysis

Rabaté Laurent, Rabaté Jean-Michel. Pekka Tammi, Problems of Nabokov's poetics : a narratological analysis. In: Revue des études slaves, tome 58, fascicule 2, 1986. Tome 58, fascicule 2 : École et enseignement en Russie et en U.R.S.S. de 1860 à nos jours, sous la direction de Jean-Louis van Regemorter. pp. 257-258

Pekka Tammi, Problems of Nabokov's poetics : a narratological analysis

Rabaté Laurent, Rabaté Jean-Michel. Pekka Tammi, Problems of Nabokov's poetics : a narratological analysis. In: Revue des études slaves, tome 58, fascicule 2, 1986. Tome 58, fascicule 2 : École et enseignement en Russie et en U.R.S.S. de 1860 à nos jours, sous la direction de Jean-Louis van Regemorter. pp. 257-258