Continental Theory Buffalo

Continental Theory Buffalo
Title Continental Theory Buffalo PDF eBook
Author David R. Castillo
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 244
Release 2021-12-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1438486464

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Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the "revolutionary" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Buffalo Harvest

The Buffalo Harvest
Title The Buffalo Harvest PDF eBook
Author Frank H. Mayer
Publisher
Pages 112
Release 1958
Genre American bison
ISBN

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The experiences of Mayer as a buffalo hunter.

The Rhetoric of Failure

The Rhetoric of Failure
Title The Rhetoric of Failure PDF eBook
Author Ewa P?onowska Ziarek
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 262
Release 1995-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780791427118

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'This book makes a significant and needed contribution to post-structural philosophy and literary theory. In this impressive analysis that delicately weaves together philosophical and literary texts, Ewa Ziarek powerfully and persuasively demonstrates that the rhetoric of the failure of traditional subject-centered rationality does not lead to nihilism or nominalism.'-Kelly Oliver, University of Texas at Austin

Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century

Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Title Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Anne Leah Greenfield
Publisher Routledge
Pages 353
Release 2019-11-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000760669

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This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing tales of castrations in medical treatises, to emasculated husbands in stage comedies, to sympathetic and powerful eunuchs in prose fiction, to glorious operatic performances by castrati in Italy, to humorous depictions in caricature and satirical paintings, to fearsome descriptions of Eastern eunuchs in travel narratives, to foolish and impotent old men who became a mainstay in drama. Not only does this unprecedented study of unmanning (in all of its varied forms) illustrate the sheer prevalence of a trope that featured prominently across literary and artistic genres, but it also demonstrates the ways diminished masculinity reflected some of the most strongly-held anxieties, interests, and values of eighteenth-century Britons.

The Practice of Theory

The Practice of Theory
Title The Practice of Theory PDF eBook
Author Stacey Herbert
Publisher
Pages 358
Release 1999-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780922668205

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Spatial Information Theory

Spatial Information Theory
Title Spatial Information Theory PDF eBook
Author Anthony G. Cohn
Publisher Springer
Pages 505
Release 2005-09-27
Genre Computers
ISBN 3540320202

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This volume contains the papers presented at the "Conference on Spatial Information Theory", held in Ellicottville, New York in September 2005. COSIT 2005 was the 7th International Conference held under the COSIT name.

Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence

Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence
Title Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence PDF eBook
Author Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 146
Release 2015-12-23
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1438460023

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In this book, Rodolphe Gasché returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding it—not as an operation or method to reach an elusive outside, or beyond, of metaphysics, but as something that takes place within it. Rather than unraveling metaphysics, deconstruction loosens its binary and hierarchical conceptual structure. To make this case, Gasché focuses on the concepts of force and violence in the work of Jacques Derrida, looking to his essays "Force and Signification" and "Force of Law," and his reading on Of Grammatology in Claude Lévi-Strauss's autobiographical Tristes Tropiques. The concept of force has not drawn extensive scrutiny in Derrida scholarship, but it is crucial to understanding how, by way of spacing and temporizing, philosophical opposition is reinscribed into a differential economy of forces. Gasché concludes with an essay addressing the question of deconstruction and judgment and considers whether deconstruction suspends the possibility of judgment, or whether it is, on the contrary, a hyperbolic demand for judgment.