William Egginton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Egginton |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Egginton |
| SIGNATURE | EGGINTON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kant, Existentialism, and the Anthropic Principle
Kant, Existentialism, and the Anthropic Principle* William Egginton By turning their gazes toward the deepest recesses of the past to understand the very origins of existence, cosmologists opened a pandora’s-box of philosophical enigmas. Among these, one stands out: had the fundamental laws of nature diverged from their actual values by even vanishingly small degrees, the universe would not have evolved to sustain any kind of life resembling our …
Special Dossier: The New Politics of Existence
Special Dossier: The New Politics of Existence William Egginton and Yi-Ping Ong When the editors of this special issue first met in 2019 to discuss hosting a conference on the topic of “The New Politics of Existence,” a world-wide pandemic that would kill tens of millions around the world, devastate economies, and exacerbate divisiveness and conspiracy mongering never crossed our minds. We focused instead on the apparent rise in the appeal of exi…
Special Section: Essays in Honor of Harry Sieber
Special Section:Essays in Honor of Harry Sieber William Egginton The highest accolade one can receive as a scholar is to have those who come after you refer to you as a legend. Harry Sieber, who retired in 2019 after more than a half-century of teaching at Johns Hopkins, was just that: a legend. Already as a graduate student and long before I began teaching at Hopkins in 2006, I, like so many others, used Harry’s Cátedra edition of the Novelas ej…
The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction In the Cartesian Theater by R. Darren Gobert (review)
Reviewed by: The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction In the Cartesian Theater by R. Darren Gobert William Egginton THE MIND-BODY STAGE: PASSION AND INTERACTION IN THE CARTESIAN THEATER. By R. Darren Gobert. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013; pp. 264. R. Darren Gobert ends the prologue to his impressive new book with this marvelous quotation from René Descartes: “So far I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, …
Critical Cluster: Early Modern Theater and Theatricality
Critical Cluster:Early Modern Theater and Theatricality Harry Sieber and William Egginton With this Hispanic Issue of MLN, the editors introduce a new section—a "critical cluster"—on the general topic of Early Modern Spanish literature. (Future issues will include clusters about other periods of the literatures of Spain and Latin America). The common thread among the following articles is theater and theatricality in Golden Age Spanish drama and …
Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest
In Defense of Religious Moderation
In his latest book, William Egginton laments the current debate over religion in America, in which religious fundamentalists have set the tone of political discourse—no one can get elected without advertising a personal relation to God, for example—and prominent atheists treat religious belief as the root of all evil. Neither of these positions, Egginton argues, adequately represents the attitudes of a majority of Americans who, while identifying…
Religion-Conspiracy-Code
Religion-Conspiracy-Code William Egginton (bio) Due largely to the essential role it plays in new technology and media, the term "code" has become one of the most successful memes—borrowing a term from Richard Dawkins—of the late twentieth and now twenty-first centuries. The term as we have come to know and use it today is indelibly marked by the context of cybernetics, where it was first used in the mid-1940s in popular and scientific journals t…
On Radical Atheism, Chronolibidinal Reading, and Impossible Desires
On Radical Atheism, Chronolibidinal Reading, and Impossible Desires William Egginton (bio) When it came to my attention that my daughter would eventually be one of her generation's great philosophers, she was five years old. She still is, in fact, as this was only a few weeks ago. We were discussing my granting her permission to leave the table without having finished eating, and she lamented that if I didn't relent she would "never get up from t…
The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque
Research Article| January 01 2007 The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque William Egginton William Egginton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (1): 107–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2006-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William Egginton; The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque. South Atlantic Quarter…
The Best or the Worst of Our Nature: Reality TV and the Desire for Limitless Change
"Rereading Borges's "The Aleph: On the Name of a Place, a Word, and a Letter
To celebrate the centenary of borges's birth, in 1999, thebibliothèque Nationale de France dedicated, in his honor, a day of conferences, round tables, and film screenings. In that place I presented "Borges et la bibliothèque,"1 almost a common-place, one topic or two, as much because of the institution where it took place as because of the argumentation of recurrent reasoning it implies. I alluded to the excesses and redundancies of a theme that…
How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity
Cervantes, Romantic Irony and the Making of Reality
Irony is a deceptively simple trope. That a sentence means other than what it appears to mean is all that is required to qualify it as ironic, at least according to classical definitions. But a querulous history and a virtual infinity of divergent viewpoints belie the ostensible sincerity of irony's feint. The real point of departure in irony's trajectory is a relatively modern one, one bequeathed by romanticism when its poets and predicators cho…
The Sacred Heart of Dissent
I begin my discussion with a text that, to my knowledge, appears nowhere in Nancy's writing. I do so because I believe it to be one of the founding texts of twentieth-century ethics, a tradition that has achieved its most lucid expression, in my mind, in the oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy. The text is a lecture given by Wittgenstein to a Cambridge audience in 1929, and the title is, simply, "A Lecture on Ethics."
Reality is Bleeding: A Brief History of Film from the Sixteenth Century
Configurations - Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2001
On Dante, Hyperspheres, and the Curvature of the Medieval Cosmos
On Dante, Hyperspheres, and the Curvature of the Medieval Cosmos William Egginton In the course of his lectures on medieval literature at Oxford University in the 1950s C. S. Lewis would ask students to walk alone at night, gaze at the star-filled sky, and try to imagine how it might look to a walker in the Middle Ages. It would not likely have occurred to him that some forty years later several astrophysicists would ask that their readers perfor…
A Wrinkle in Historical Time
gained from the different meanings uncovered in the general march of history along the path which runs from Bossuet (Jacques-Binigne) to Toynbee (Arnold), and which is punctuated by the edifices of Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. Everyone knows very well that they are worth as little for directing research into the recent past as they are for making any reasonable presumptions about the events of tomorrow. Besides, they are modest enough to postpone…
An Epistemology of the Stage: Theatricality and Subjectivity in Early Modern Spain
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1996
The Best or the Worst of Our Nature: Reality TV and the Desire for Limitless Change
The Sacred Heart of Dissent
I begin my discussion with a text that, to my knowledge, appears nowhere in Nancy's writing. I do so because I believe it to be one of the founding texts of twentieth-century ethics, a tradition that has achieved its most lucid expression, in my mind, in the oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy. The text is a lecture given by Wittgenstein to a Cambridge audience in 1929, and the title is, simply, "A Lecture on Ethics."
Reality is Bleeding: A Brief History of Film from the Sixteenth Century
Configurations - Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2001
A Wrinkle in Historical Time
gained from the different meanings uncovered in the general march of history along the path which runs from Bossuet (Jacques-Binigne) to Toynbee (Arnold), and which is punctuated by the edifices of Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. Everyone knows very well that they are worth as little for directing research into the recent past as they are for making any reasonable presumptions about the events of tomorrow. Besides, they are modest enough to postpone…
An Epistemology of the Stage: Theatricality and Subjectivity in Early Modern Spain
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1996
On Dante, Hyperspheres, and the Curvature of the Medieval Cosmos
On Dante, Hyperspheres, and the Curvature of the Medieval Cosmos William Egginton In the course of his lectures on medieval literature at Oxford University in the 1950s C. S. Lewis would ask students to walk alone at night, gaze at the star-filled sky, and try to imagine how it might look to a walker in the Middle Ages. It would not likely have occurred to him that some forty years later several astrophysicists would ask that their readers perfor…
Reality is Bleeding: A Brief History of Film from the Sixteenth Century
Configurations - Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2001
How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity
Cervantes, Romantic Irony and the Making of Reality
Irony is a deceptively simple trope. That a sentence means other than what it appears to mean is all that is required to qualify it as ironic, at least according to classical definitions. But a querulous history and a virtual infinity of divergent viewpoints belie the ostensible sincerity of irony's feint. The real point of departure in irony's trajectory is a relatively modern one, one bequeathed by romanticism when its poets and predicators cho…
The Sacred Heart of Dissent
I begin my discussion with a text that, to my knowledge, appears nowhere in Nancy's writing. I do so because I believe it to be one of the founding texts of twentieth-century ethics, a tradition that has achieved its most lucid expression, in my mind, in the oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy. The text is a lecture given by Wittgenstein to a Cambridge audience in 1929, and the title is, simply, "A Lecture on Ethics."
"Rereading Borges's "The Aleph: On the Name of a Place, a Word, and a Letter
To celebrate the centenary of borges's birth, in 1999, thebibliothèque Nationale de France dedicated, in his honor, a day of conferences, round tables, and film screenings. In that place I presented "Borges et la bibliothèque,"1 almost a common-place, one topic or two, as much because of the institution where it took place as because of the argumentation of recurrent reasoning it implies. I alluded to the excesses and redundancies of a theme that…
The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque
Research Article| January 01 2007 The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque William Egginton William Egginton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (1): 107–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2006-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William Egginton; The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque. South Atlantic Quarter…
The Best or the Worst of Our Nature: Reality TV and the Desire for Limitless Change
On Radical Atheism, Chronolibidinal Reading, and Impossible Desires
On Radical Atheism, Chronolibidinal Reading, and Impossible Desires William Egginton (bio) When it came to my attention that my daughter would eventually be one of her generation's great philosophers, she was five years old. She still is, in fact, as this was only a few weeks ago. We were discussing my granting her permission to leave the table without having finished eating, and she lamented that if I didn't relent she would "never get up from t…
In Defense of Religious Moderation
In his latest book, William Egginton laments the current debate over religion in America, in which religious fundamentalists have set the tone of political discourse—no one can get elected without advertising a personal relation to God, for example—and prominent atheists treat religious belief as the root of all evil. Neither of these positions, Egginton argues, adequately represents the attitudes of a majority of Americans who, while identifying…
Religion-Conspiracy-Code
Religion-Conspiracy-Code William Egginton (bio) Due largely to the essential role it plays in new technology and media, the term "code" has become one of the most successful memes—borrowing a term from Richard Dawkins—of the late twentieth and now twenty-first centuries. The term as we have come to know and use it today is indelibly marked by the context of cybernetics, where it was first used in the mid-1940s in popular and scientific journals t…
Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest
Critical Cluster: Early Modern Theater and Theatricality
Critical Cluster:Early Modern Theater and Theatricality Harry Sieber and William Egginton With this Hispanic Issue of MLN, the editors introduce a new section—a "critical cluster"—on the general topic of Early Modern Spanish literature. (Future issues will include clusters about other periods of the literatures of Spain and Latin America). The common thread among the following articles is theater and theatricality in Golden Age Spanish drama and …
The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction In the Cartesian Theater by R. Darren Gobert (review)
Reviewed by: The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction In the Cartesian Theater by R. Darren Gobert William Egginton THE MIND-BODY STAGE: PASSION AND INTERACTION IN THE CARTESIAN THEATER. By R. Darren Gobert. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013; pp. 264. R. Darren Gobert ends the prologue to his impressive new book with this marvelous quotation from René Descartes: “So far I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, …
Special Section: Essays in Honor of Harry Sieber
Special Section:Essays in Honor of Harry Sieber William Egginton The highest accolade one can receive as a scholar is to have those who come after you refer to you as a legend. Harry Sieber, who retired in 2019 after more than a half-century of teaching at Johns Hopkins, was just that: a legend. Already as a graduate student and long before I began teaching at Hopkins in 2006, I, like so many others, used Harry’s Cátedra edition of the Novelas ej…
Kant, Existentialism, and the Anthropic Principle
Kant, Existentialism, and the Anthropic Principle* William Egginton By turning their gazes toward the deepest recesses of the past to understand the very origins of existence, cosmologists opened a pandora’s-box of philosophical enigmas. Among these, one stands out: had the fundamental laws of nature diverged from their actual values by even vanishingly small degrees, the universe would not have evolved to sustain any kind of life resembling our …
Special Dossier: The New Politics of Existence
Special Dossier: The New Politics of Existence William Egginton and Yi-Ping Ong When the editors of this special issue first met in 2019 to discuss hosting a conference on the topic of “The New Politics of Existence,” a world-wide pandemic that would kill tens of millions around the world, devastate economies, and exacerbate divisiveness and conspiracy mongering never crossed our minds. We focused instead on the apparent rise in the appeal of exi…
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