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"This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from sixteen languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory that will be necessarily multilingual. With essays by scholars, across generations, and from a variety of disciplines - history, anthropology, and philosophy to literature and political theory - this book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of critical theory and the social sciences"--

This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are carried in culture, language, and history in various parts of the world. It analyzes constructions of identities, stereotypes, and mythical fantasies in postcolonial society. Exploring a wide range of themes including the appropriation and use of language, myths of decolonialization, and nationalism, and the colonial influence on systems of academic knowledge, the book focuses on how these myths reinforce, subvert, and appropriate colonial binaries for the articulation of the postcolonial self. With essays which study narratives of emigrants in Argentina, the colonial mythology in the Dodecanese in Italy, and the mythico-narratives of island insularity in contemporary Sri Lanka among others, this volume emphasizes the role of indigenous studies in building a postcolonial consciousness. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of post-colonial studies, cultural studies, literature, history, political science, and sociology.

This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt's thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of 'time,' 'movement,' and 'spectators,' this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance's epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty's essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.

In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the "shelter-in-place" period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life's worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain

Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE Sexual Murder: Weimar Germany and Its Cultural Legacy -- Chapter One. Morbid Curiosity: Why Lustmord -- Chapter Two. "Ask Mother": The Construction of Sexual Murder -- Chapter Three. Crime, Contagion, and Containment: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic -- PART TWO Case Studies -- Chapter Four. Fighting for Life: Figurations of War, Women, and the City in the Work of Otto Dix -- Chapter Five. Life in the Combat Zone: Military and Sexual Anxieties in the Work of George Grosz -- Chapter Six. The Corpse Vanishes: Gender, Violence, and Agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Chapter Seven. The Killer as Victim: Fritz Lang's M -- Chapter Eight. Reinventions: Murder in the Name of Art -- NOTES -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Table des matières -- Préface -- Ière partie : Reconstitution de la structure du traité -- Schéma reconstitutif de l'ouvrage -- La tradition manuscrite des Dialogi et les enjeux textuels du De ira -- IIème partie : Lectures du De ira -- De ira 1,1-4 Psychopathologie de la colère -- De ira 1,5-21 La construction de l'argumentation dans le livre I du De ira -- De ira 1,5-21 La raison et la colère : la réfutation de la métriopathie dans le De ira -- De ira 2,1-17 La nature et l'habitus de la colère -- De ira 2,18-36 De la prophylaxie au contrôle de la colère -- De ira 3,1-9 La maîtrise de la colère. Théorie et pratique stoïciennes -- De ira 3,10-24 Une transition faible : de la prophylaxie au traitement et des praecepta aux exempla -- De ira 3,25-43 Faire face à la colère : réponse logique et traitement comportemental -- IIIème partie : Thématiques transversales -- Les lectures politiques du De ira -- Ferarum minus taetra facies est quam hominis ira flagrantis (ira 3,4,3) -- Sénèque et les pré-passions -- Sur les passions et la tragédie -- IVème partie : Regards philosophiques sur la colère dans l'Antiquité -- La colère chez Platon -- La colère chez Aristote -- « La rage du sage ». Philodème et la conception épicurienne de la colère -- Le De ira de Sénèque et les Tusculanes de Cicéron -- Le Perì aorgēsías de Plutarque -- Galien. La place de la colère dans la psycho-pathologie galénique -- La colère divine, expression nécessaire de la providence : le De ira dei de Lactance -- Conclusions -- Bibliographie du De ira -- Notices des auteurs -- Index locorum -- Index nominum antiquorum -- Index nominum recentiorum

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Ebenbildhaftigkeit und Versklavungsverbot -- 1.2 Broch im Kontext der Menschenrechtskultur -- 2 Essayistisches Werk -- 2.1 Politische Ökonomie: Bill of Economic Rights -- 2.2 "Völkerbund-Resolution" (1936/37): Menschenwürde und Menschenrecht -- 2.3 Massenwahnthorie (1939–1948): Die Demokratie im Zeitalter der Versklavung -- 3 Dichterisches Werk -- 3.1 Die Entsühnung (1932): Neue Sachlichkeit religiös transzendiert -- 3.2 Der Tod des Vergil (1945): Anima naturaliter christiana -- 3.3 Die Verzauberung (1935), Die Schuldlosen (1950): Aussteiger und Wanderer -- 4 Briefwechsel im Exil (1938–1951) -- 4.1 Hannah Arendt: Diskussion über Human Rights -- 4.2 Erich von Kahler: Literarische Kooperation und politischer Diskurs -- 4.3 Abraham Sonne: Zentralgestirn für Broch und Canetti -- 5 Anhang -- 5.1 Editorische Notiz -- 5.2 Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen von Broch- Publikationen und -Archiven -- 5.3 Literaturverzeichnis -- Namenregister

Frontmatter --Editorial --Inhalt --Danksagung --Einleitung --Philosophische Überlegungen: Nichtstun als politische Praxis --Poetische Überlegungen: Binäropposition und Uneigentlichkeit --Arbeit vs. Muße --›Ost‹/Inaktiv vs. ›West‹/Aktiv --Indifferenz vs. Handlung --Sprechen vs. Handeln --Fazit und Ausblick --Literaturverzeichnis

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How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls "proximate removes" suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Exordium Extinction And Everyday Infrapolitics -- Introduction -- Passage I: Contemporary Turmoil Posthegemonic Epochality, Or Why Bother With The Infrapolitical? -- Passage II: Narco-Accumulation Of Contemporary Force And Facticity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have offered concepts, categories, and political solutions that have been applied in a variety of social and political contexts, from postwar Italy to the insurgencies of the Arab Spring. The contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the diverse receptions and uses of Gramscian thought, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the world. Among other topics, they explore Gamsci's importance to Caribbean anticolonial thinkers like Stuart Hall, his presence in decolonial indigenous movements in the Andes, and his relevance to understanding the Chinese left. The contributors consider why Gramsci has had relatively little impact in the United States while also showing how he was a major force in pushing Marxism beyond Europe—especially into the Arab world and other regions of the global South. Rather than taking one interpretive position on Gramsci, the contributors demonstrate the ongoing relevance of his ideas to revolutionary theory and praxis.Contributors. Alberto Burgio, Cesare Casarino, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Kate Crehan, Roberto M. Dainotto, Michael Denning, Harry Harootunian, Fredric Jameson, R. A. Judy, Patrizia Manduchi, Andrea Scapolo, Peter D. Thomas, Catherine Walsh, Pu Wang, Cosimo Zene

Die Korrespondenz zwischen körperlichen Merkmalen und dem Charakter eines Menschen, die im 19. Jahrhundert die Matrix für die Naturwissenschaften fungierte, stellt heute die Basis von Lifestyle-Normen oder auch von psychologischer und medizinischer Diagnostik dar. Infolge strukturalistisch-semiotischer Methoden gilt die Physiognomik immer noch als Deutungsdispositiv bei Formen literarischer Personendarstellungen oder philosophischer Deutung menschlichen Antlitzes. In den durch umfangreiche mediale und technische Umwälzungen hervorgebrachten Modellierungen der Sinnlichkeit erweist sich die Physiognomik auch als Paradigma des Enhancements. Der Band untersucht historisch und systematisch die biopolitische Performativität physiognomischer Praktiken der Selbst- und Fremddeutung, ihre Gestaltung sowie ihre Transformationen durch neue Technologien. Er diskutiert ihre materiell-mediale Dynamik, das in der Ästhetik von Texten und Medien implizierte Lebenswissen, Formen der Affektforschung sowie die anthropozentrischen Implikationen der Physiognomik

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Abbreviations -- Signs and Symbols -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Introduction / Passa, Enzo / Tribulato, Olga -- Bibliography of Albio Cesare Cassio -- Unconventional Features in Homer: The Case of ἑέ and ἑοῖ / Kaczko, Sara -- σθένεϊ βλεμεαίνων: Origin and Evolution of a Homeric Formula / Willi, Andreas -- Active versus Middle Perfect in Homeric Greek: Synchrony and Diachrony / Beek, Lucien van / Migliori, Laura -- Empedocles in the West, Panyassis in the East: Doric and Hexameter Poetry in the Classical Age / Passa, Enzo -- Of Land, Ancestral Property and Prophecy in Corinna PMG 654 col. iii ll. 37–39 / Prauscello, Lucia -- Epicharmus and Choral Lyric Poetry: A Reappraisal of Old and New Evidence / Favi, Federico -- Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm / Vatri, Alessandro -- Gk. ταπεινός 'Low(-lying)' and Its IE Heritage: Gk. PN Τέμπυρα, Hitt. dampu- 'Blunt', Old Russ. tupъ 'Blunt, Stupid' / Serangeli, Matilde -- Prose and Poetry of Pain: A History of the Term ἄλγος / Cerroni, Enrico -- Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas / Tribulato, Olga -- List of Contributors -- Index of Notable Words -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Passages

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability's medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies demonstrates that throughout the Victorian era, authors of fiction used narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructing and questioning the boundary dividing normalcy from abnormality. As fiction's form developed from the massive hybrid novels of the early decades of the nineteenth century to the case-study length of fin-de-siècle mysteries, disability became increasingly medicalized, moving from the position of spectacle to specimen.

Frontmatter --Contents --Preface and Acknowledgments --Prologue: Enticements and Forewarnings --Chapter One. How to Do, Make, and Mean Things with Words --Chapter Two. The Performance, Recording, and Mental Rehearsal of Cultural Transactions --Chapter Three. Who We Are: The Rhetoric, Grammar, and Logic of Communal Identities --Chapter Four. Society, Nature, Selves: Freedom and Diversity --Chapter Five. Four More Triads and Beyond --Epilogue: Loose Ends and Afterthoughts --Index