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Routledge eBooks, Jul 12, 2023
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2021
Salhab / Ott Film als Gegenverwirklichung Autor_in oder Herr_in des Schicksals sein. Also geht es... more Salhab / Ott Film als Gegenverwirklichung Autor_in oder Herr_in des Schicksals sein. Also geht es um symbolische Akte, um Arten der ästhetischen Gegenverwirklichung dessen, was sich uns aufdrängt, uns überwältigt, auch fasziniert und im besten Fall wachsen lässt. Ein derartiges Vorgehen, in dem sich passive und aktive Elemente verflechten: Das ist nichts anderes als die Definition der Kunst.
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience “the living paradox... more What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience “the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship”? This title considers the necessary and necessarily antagonistic relation between the categories of citizen and subject. In this book, the question of modernity is framed anew with special attention to the self-enunciation of the subject (in Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, and Derrida), the constitution of the community as “we” (in Hegel, Marx, and Tolstoy), and the aporia of the judgment of self and others (in Foucault, Freud, Kelsen, and Blanchot). After the “humanist controversy” that preoccupied twentieth-century philosophy, the book proposes foundations for philosophical anthropology today, in terms of two contrary movements: the becoming-citizen of the subject and the becoming-subject of the citizen. The citizen-subject who is constituted in the claim to a “right to have rights” (Arendt) cannot exist without an underside that contests and defies it. He—or she, because the text is concerned throughout this volume with questions of sexual difference—figures not only the social relation but also the discontent or the uneasiness at the heart of this relation. The human can be instituted only if it betrays itself by upholding “anthropological differences” that impose normality and identity as conditions of belonging to the community. The violence of “civil” bourgeois universality, the text argues, is greater (and less legitimate, therefore less stable) than that of theological or cosmological universality. Right is thus founded on insubordination, and emancipation derives its force from otherness.
Verso eBooks, 2013
Dionysiac imagery were ubiquitous in daily and religious life across cultures and faiths (Christi... more Dionysiac imagery were ubiquitous in daily and religious life across cultures and faiths (Christian, Jewish, Muslim). Ivories and textiles, especially astonishingly capacious and complete garments, are the highlights. The volume includes many objects, especially from Egypt, that did not make their way to New York. Upheavals in the region today echo those of the "Age of Transition," but the shared vocabulary of that time appears to have vanished utterly.
Critical Analysis of Law, Dec 12, 2022
This essay situates Lisa Siraganian's important book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Pers... more This essay situates Lisa Siraganian's important book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons, within the law and literature field and in relation to the more specialized subfields of literature and liberalism, legalism, and critical race studies of fugitive property. It discusses Siraganian's nuanced account of corporate personhood, exploring its implications for legal arguments pertaining to fetal personhood post-Dobbs, and for broader political struggles over dignity, recognition, due process, and bodily autonomy. * * * The field of "law and literature," by now well-established in the humanities and buoyed by professional publications and forums like Law and Literature, has, in the last few years, developed exponentially to become one of the central interdisciplinary loci of the contemporary humanities. In an era of extreme-right judicial activism and against the backdrop of post-Floyd social justice and reparations movements, legal language, legal heuristics, and legal case law have moved closer to the forefront of criticism and theory. The field encompasses studies of slavery and fugitive property law; the death penalty and carceral abolitionism; Indigenous land claims as they relate to native language and heritage property; post-Westphalian world systems and the sphere of international human rights; the courtroom as site of performative justice; the theological power of force of law; the right to language, literature, voicing, and representation; the legislation of social and racial harming; and the culture-boundedness of Western legal norms and lexicons, tethered to notions of universal justice as well as histories of settler colonialism. Critical Legal Studies (marked by Duncan Kennedy and Roberto Mangabeira Unger), intersectionally transfigured by Critical Race Theory and the seminal work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, and Kendall Thomas (among others) continues to gain momentum in the comparative humanities, with the publication of game-changing books like Stephen M. Best's The Fugitive's Properties: Law
Fordham University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Princeton University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2009
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Maupassant's short story "Une Veuve" opens during hunting season at the chateau de Banneville. 1 ... more Maupassant's short story "Une Veuve" opens during hunting season at the chateau de Banneville. 1 Outside all is wet and dreary, and the guests, gathered inside the salon, tell stories in an effort to stave off boredom. The stories fail to amuse or distract-"the women wracked their brains but never managed to discover the imagination of Scheherazade." But suddenly a young woman no tices a curious ring of hair on the hand of a maiden aunt: "Tell me, Aunt, what is that ring? One would think it the hair of a child," she remarks. "It's sad, so sad that I never want to speak of it. It is the cause of all the sadness of my life," the aunts replies. 2 Their curiosity finally roused, the guests implore her to divulge the mystery, and after much postponed gratification, she relents and tells her tale. This classic prelude, a typical Maupassant frame-text, immediate ly sets the tone for a lachrymose drama of mourning, melancholia, and manic collecting. The lugubrious nineteenth-century practice of preserving the relics of departed loved ones, from keepsakes and love letters to nail clippings and locks of hair, is here pastiched through postiche, literally through a piece of hair, figuratively through the atmosphere of artifice, simulation, and ersatz reproducibility, i. I am grateful to Lynn Hunt for inviting me to present an initial version of this chapter in a conference, "Eroticism and the Body Politic," at the University of Pennsylvania, Apr. ig88. Naomi Schor and Carla Hesse offered particularly useful and provocative criticism in the course of our discussion. 2. Guy de Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, 2 vols., ed. Louis Forestier (Paris: Gallimard, i 974-79), 1 :533.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Littérature, histoire, politique, 2014
Le roman d'affaires du dix-neuvième siècle Spéculation et xénophobie dans le système-monde de la ... more Le roman d'affaires du dix-neuvième siècle Spéculation et xénophobie dans le système-monde de la littérature Type de publication: Article de collectif Collectif: French Global. Une nouvelle perspective sur l'histoire littéraire Auteur: Apter (Emily) Résumé: Le roman d'affaires français, qui a son apogée à la fin du 19 siècle, montre l'importance du capitalisme dans la littérature moderne : l'espace littéraire s'ouvre peu à peu à des phénomènes de mondialisation. Cet essai étudie des oeuvres de Balzac, Zola, et Maupassant, principaux représentants du genre.
Fabula-LhT : littérature, histoire, théorie, Feb 1, 2012
Resume :Emily Apter fait ici la « biographie d’une traduction », celle de Madame Bovary par Elean... more Resume :Emily Apter fait ici la « biographie d’une traduction », celle de Madame Bovary par Eleanor Marx (la fille de Karl, au destin aussi tragique que celui d’Emma). Elle suit l’aventure de cette traduction jusqu’à sa reprise par Paul de Man (dans une édition largement retravaillée par son épouse…) et propose une théorie du « travail de la traduction » - un « travail non aliéné », arraché à la « propriété littéraire », qui peut redonner aux femmes et à la valeur de leurs tâches une place inédite dans l’Internationale des Lettres. La version originale de ce texte est à paraître prochainement dans un essai théorique d’Emily Apter.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2009
Summary of the discussion at a recent conference session: “Untiming the Nineteenth Century: Tempo... more Summary of the discussion at a recent conference session: “Untiming the Nineteenth Century: Temporality and Periodization” (MLA Annual Convention, 28 Dec. 2007, Chicago).
Comparative Literature Studies, 2005
Francophonie names multiple regions marked by the French language rather than a specific nation o... more Francophonie names multiple regions marked by the French language rather than a specific nation or theory. Defined as a new comparative literature, often but not necessarily housed in French studies, it becomes a disciplinary site of theory much like Comparative Literature ...
Fordham University Press eBooks, Feb 21, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Jul 12, 2023
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2021
Salhab / Ott Film als Gegenverwirklichung Autor_in oder Herr_in des Schicksals sein. Also geht es... more Salhab / Ott Film als Gegenverwirklichung Autor_in oder Herr_in des Schicksals sein. Also geht es um symbolische Akte, um Arten der ästhetischen Gegenverwirklichung dessen, was sich uns aufdrängt, uns überwältigt, auch fasziniert und im besten Fall wachsen lässt. Ein derartiges Vorgehen, in dem sich passive und aktive Elemente verflechten: Das ist nichts anderes als die Definition der Kunst.
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience “the living paradox... more What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience “the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship”? This title considers the necessary and necessarily antagonistic relation between the categories of citizen and subject. In this book, the question of modernity is framed anew with special attention to the self-enunciation of the subject (in Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, and Derrida), the constitution of the community as “we” (in Hegel, Marx, and Tolstoy), and the aporia of the judgment of self and others (in Foucault, Freud, Kelsen, and Blanchot). After the “humanist controversy” that preoccupied twentieth-century philosophy, the book proposes foundations for philosophical anthropology today, in terms of two contrary movements: the becoming-citizen of the subject and the becoming-subject of the citizen. The citizen-subject who is constituted in the claim to a “right to have rights” (Arendt) cannot exist without an underside that contests and defies it. He—or she, because the text is concerned throughout this volume with questions of sexual difference—figures not only the social relation but also the discontent or the uneasiness at the heart of this relation. The human can be instituted only if it betrays itself by upholding “anthropological differences” that impose normality and identity as conditions of belonging to the community. The violence of “civil” bourgeois universality, the text argues, is greater (and less legitimate, therefore less stable) than that of theological or cosmological universality. Right is thus founded on insubordination, and emancipation derives its force from otherness.
Verso eBooks, 2013
Dionysiac imagery were ubiquitous in daily and religious life across cultures and faiths (Christi... more Dionysiac imagery were ubiquitous in daily and religious life across cultures and faiths (Christian, Jewish, Muslim). Ivories and textiles, especially astonishingly capacious and complete garments, are the highlights. The volume includes many objects, especially from Egypt, that did not make their way to New York. Upheavals in the region today echo those of the "Age of Transition," but the shared vocabulary of that time appears to have vanished utterly.
Critical Analysis of Law, Dec 12, 2022
This essay situates Lisa Siraganian's important book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Pers... more This essay situates Lisa Siraganian's important book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons, within the law and literature field and in relation to the more specialized subfields of literature and liberalism, legalism, and critical race studies of fugitive property. It discusses Siraganian's nuanced account of corporate personhood, exploring its implications for legal arguments pertaining to fetal personhood post-Dobbs, and for broader political struggles over dignity, recognition, due process, and bodily autonomy. * * * The field of "law and literature," by now well-established in the humanities and buoyed by professional publications and forums like Law and Literature, has, in the last few years, developed exponentially to become one of the central interdisciplinary loci of the contemporary humanities. In an era of extreme-right judicial activism and against the backdrop of post-Floyd social justice and reparations movements, legal language, legal heuristics, and legal case law have moved closer to the forefront of criticism and theory. The field encompasses studies of slavery and fugitive property law; the death penalty and carceral abolitionism; Indigenous land claims as they relate to native language and heritage property; post-Westphalian world systems and the sphere of international human rights; the courtroom as site of performative justice; the theological power of force of law; the right to language, literature, voicing, and representation; the legislation of social and racial harming; and the culture-boundedness of Western legal norms and lexicons, tethered to notions of universal justice as well as histories of settler colonialism. Critical Legal Studies (marked by Duncan Kennedy and Roberto Mangabeira Unger), intersectionally transfigured by Critical Race Theory and the seminal work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, and Kendall Thomas (among others) continues to gain momentum in the comparative humanities, with the publication of game-changing books like Stephen M. Best's The Fugitive's Properties: Law
Fordham University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Princeton University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2009
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Maupassant's short story "Une Veuve" opens during hunting season at the chateau de Banneville. 1 ... more Maupassant's short story "Une Veuve" opens during hunting season at the chateau de Banneville. 1 Outside all is wet and dreary, and the guests, gathered inside the salon, tell stories in an effort to stave off boredom. The stories fail to amuse or distract-"the women wracked their brains but never managed to discover the imagination of Scheherazade." But suddenly a young woman no tices a curious ring of hair on the hand of a maiden aunt: "Tell me, Aunt, what is that ring? One would think it the hair of a child," she remarks. "It's sad, so sad that I never want to speak of it. It is the cause of all the sadness of my life," the aunts replies. 2 Their curiosity finally roused, the guests implore her to divulge the mystery, and after much postponed gratification, she relents and tells her tale. This classic prelude, a typical Maupassant frame-text, immediate ly sets the tone for a lachrymose drama of mourning, melancholia, and manic collecting. The lugubrious nineteenth-century practice of preserving the relics of departed loved ones, from keepsakes and love letters to nail clippings and locks of hair, is here pastiched through postiche, literally through a piece of hair, figuratively through the atmosphere of artifice, simulation, and ersatz reproducibility, i. I am grateful to Lynn Hunt for inviting me to present an initial version of this chapter in a conference, "Eroticism and the Body Politic," at the University of Pennsylvania, Apr. ig88. Naomi Schor and Carla Hesse offered particularly useful and provocative criticism in the course of our discussion. 2. Guy de Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, 2 vols., ed. Louis Forestier (Paris: Gallimard, i 974-79), 1 :533.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Littérature, histoire, politique, 2014
Le roman d'affaires du dix-neuvième siècle Spéculation et xénophobie dans le système-monde de la ... more Le roman d'affaires du dix-neuvième siècle Spéculation et xénophobie dans le système-monde de la littérature Type de publication: Article de collectif Collectif: French Global. Une nouvelle perspective sur l'histoire littéraire Auteur: Apter (Emily) Résumé: Le roman d'affaires français, qui a son apogée à la fin du 19 siècle, montre l'importance du capitalisme dans la littérature moderne : l'espace littéraire s'ouvre peu à peu à des phénomènes de mondialisation. Cet essai étudie des oeuvres de Balzac, Zola, et Maupassant, principaux représentants du genre.
Fabula-LhT : littérature, histoire, théorie, Feb 1, 2012
Resume :Emily Apter fait ici la « biographie d’une traduction », celle de Madame Bovary par Elean... more Resume :Emily Apter fait ici la « biographie d’une traduction », celle de Madame Bovary par Eleanor Marx (la fille de Karl, au destin aussi tragique que celui d’Emma). Elle suit l’aventure de cette traduction jusqu’à sa reprise par Paul de Man (dans une édition largement retravaillée par son épouse…) et propose une théorie du « travail de la traduction » - un « travail non aliéné », arraché à la « propriété littéraire », qui peut redonner aux femmes et à la valeur de leurs tâches une place inédite dans l’Internationale des Lettres. La version originale de ce texte est à paraître prochainement dans un essai théorique d’Emily Apter.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2009
Summary of the discussion at a recent conference session: “Untiming the Nineteenth Century: Tempo... more Summary of the discussion at a recent conference session: “Untiming the Nineteenth Century: Temporality and Periodization” (MLA Annual Convention, 28 Dec. 2007, Chicago).
Comparative Literature Studies, 2005
Francophonie names multiple regions marked by the French language rather than a specific nation o... more Francophonie names multiple regions marked by the French language rather than a specific nation or theory. Defined as a new comparative literature, often but not necessarily housed in French studies, it becomes a disciplinary site of theory much like Comparative Literature ...
Fordham University Press eBooks, Feb 21, 2023