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"The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art and politics, representation and abstraction, and literature and philosophy. Working across these divisions, he engages the historical roots of modernism in the nineteenth century, uncovering forgotten texts in the archive that trouble our notions of intellectual history. The contributors to Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Rancière's thought through close readings of his texts, through comparative readings with other philosophers, and through an engagement with modernist works of art and literature. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary of the most important terms used by Rancière, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike."--

"Adorno is central to our understanding of Modernism. Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies. Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno's social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, "Adorno's Keywords," is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to "Adorno and Aesthetics." While Adorno's philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, "Adorno's Constellations," discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis"--

Introduction: against praise of Maurice Blanchot / Christopher Langlois -- Conceptualizing Blanchot. Critical first steps: on Faux pas / Cosmin Toma -- Thus spoke literature / Hannes Opelz -- Absolute modernism and the space of literature / James Martell -- Writing the future: Blanchot's Le livre / Venir Leslie Hill -- Literature outside the law: Blanchot's The infinite conversation / Christopher Langlois -- "Exacerbating the self-critical tendency": ethics and critique in Le pas au-delà / Aicha Liviana Messina -- Blanchot and aesthetic. Writing as ¿berfluss: Blanchot's reading of Kafka's diaries / Michael Holland -- I hear my destiny in the rustling of an oak: Blanchot's Char / Kevin Hart -- Neutral conditions: Blanchot, Beckett, and the space of writing / Jonathan Boulter -- The look of nothingness: Blanchot and the image / Jeff Fort -- "The call of the anterior": Blanchot, Lacan, and the death drive / Allan Pero -- "Unmade according to his image" or, night for day: Blanchot and the blacknesses of cinema figure / Kevin Bell -- Glossary. Disaster / William S. Allen -- Fragmentary writing / William S. Allen -- Community / Joseph Albernaz -- D'soeuvrement / Michael Krimper -- The neuter/the neutral / John McKeane -- Passivity / Patrick Lyons -- Literature / Audrey Wasser -- Outside / Audrey Wasser -- Friendship / A'cha Liviana Messina

Series Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Foucault's Modernisms / David Scott -- Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault 1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault's Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness / Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo ; 2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond / Roussel David Scott ; 3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem / Samuel Talcott ; 4. ArcArcheology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse / Heath Massey ; 5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The 'Dark Side' of the Enlightenment in Discipline and Punish / Christopher Penfield ; 6. Foucault's History of Sexuality / Chloë Taylor -- Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics. 7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos / Christopher Breu ; 8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel / Ann Burlein ; 9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein's Life-Writing / Sarah Posman ; 10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting / Joseph Tanke ; 11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Exp rience in Michel Foucault / Nicole Ridgway -- Part 3. Glossary. Archaeology / Heath Massey ; The "Author-Function" / Seth Forrest ; Biopower / Chloë Taylor ; Discipline / Steve Tammelleo ; Episteme / Samuel Talcott ; Genealogy / Brad Elliot Stone ; Power / Brad Elliot Stone ; Problematization / Daniele Lorenzini ; Transgression / Janae Scholtz ; Truth / Marc De Kesel ; Subjectivation / Mark Murphy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

"This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy"--

Introduction: unstiffening all our theories: William James and the culture of modernism / David H. Evans -- Conceptualizing James. The character of consciousness / Owen Flanagan and Heather Wallace -- Redeeming the wild universe: William James's Will to believe / John J. Stuhr -- The psychology of religion: William James's The varieties of religious experience / Michael Bacon -- The human contribution: James and modernity in pragmatism and The meaning of truth / Alan Malachowski -- Ever not William James's A pluralistic universe / Barry Allen -- James's radical empiricism / James Campbell -- James and modernist culture. James and Bergson: fighting the beast intellectualism with metaphors / Rosa Slegers -- William James, Henry James and the turn toward modernism / Jill Kress Karn -- "Never reject anything. Nothing has been proved": William James and Gertrude Stein on time and language / David H. Evans -- The varieties of Robert Frost's religious experience / Mark Richardson -- Notes toward the specious present: James and Stevens / Kristen Case -- Modernist figures and James's pluralistic universe / Patricia Rae -- William James's stream of consciousness and the river of the unconscious Joyce and Proust / Gian Balsamo -- "That skilful but slow-moving arranger": habit in James and Proust / Lisi Schoenbach -- William James and Italian pragmatism / Giovanni Maddalena and Michela Bella -- James's pluralism and the problems of modern political and social thought / Robert Danisch