Michael Sprinker
Biographic Data
| ID | 117480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Sprinker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprinker |
| SIGNATURE | SPRINKER M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx
With the publication of Specters of in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today s most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive pr…
The Grand Hotel Abyss
A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including Adorno, have taken up residence in the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss. . . a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort. . . And the daily contemplation of the abyss, between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment
Chance certainties
Chance Certainties Michael Sprinker Werner Hamacher, Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan, translated by Peter Fenves. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. 393 pages. One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. —Nietzsche Philosphers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. —Anon. Werner Hamacher cites the…
We Lost it at the Movies
MLN - Volume 112, Number 3, April 1997 (German Issue)
The First Death of Louis Althusser or Totality's Revenge
En 1980, le philosophe marxiste francais Louis Althusser a assassine sa femme et fut enferme dans un asile psychiatrique. Sans avoir ete juge, il meurt en 1990. La publication posthume de son autobiographie autorise ses lecteurs a une une reinterpretation de sa vie et de sa philosophie. Son autobiographie revele un homme loin d'etre reductible a sa folie. L'A. se propose de revisiter ce portrait en cherchant a l'objectiver. Il tente surtout de de…
The Legacies of Althusser
The House that Akbar Built
Research Article| May 01 1994 The House that Akbar Built Michael Sprinker Michael Sprinker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 190–194. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-59-190 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Dancing in the Dark: Perry Anderson on Socialism's Impasse
Research Article| October 01 1993 “Dancing in the Dark”: Perry Anderson on Socialism's Impasse Michael Sprinker Michael Sprinker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (57): 98–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-57-98 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissio…
The National Question: Said, Ahmad, Jameson
Proust: Philosophy of the Novel
The Royal Road: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science
What is a consequent Marxist view of the history and philosophy of science? Reference to the work of Marx and Engels (or even of Lenin) will not yield a satisfactory answer, although certain signposts are evident. For example, there is the famous observation on method in the Introduction
British Literature and British Empire
Research Article| May 01 1992 British Literature and British Empire Michael Sprinker Michael Sprinker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (53): 122–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-53-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Sprinker; British Literature and British Empire. Radical History Review 1 May 1992; 1992…
The Place of Theory
Readers not yet familiar with Fredric Jameson’s corpus will find this collection of his theoretical essays a useful introduction to the major themes and methods that have dominated his work for two decades. From the groundbreaking programmatic text, ‘Metacommentary’ (1971), to his more recent writings on postmodernism (represented
Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties
From Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol to the underground cinema and political films, David James gives a thorough account of the growth, development, and decay of nonstudio film practices in the United States between the late fifties and the mid-seventies. Unlike other scholars who discuss these practices as totally separate from Hollywood, James argues that they were developed in various kinds of dialogue or negotiation with the commercial film ind…
Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s
Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism
This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx's brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, including those of Ruskin, G.M. Hopkins, Nietzsche and Henry James, and then to the terrain of Marxism in the concepts of history underwriting the work of Fredric Jameson and Jean-…
Reshaping the U.S. Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s
Marxism and Nationalism: Ideology and Class Struggle in Premchand's Godan
Why study the cultures of the non-Western world? And how, as products of the advanced capitalist metropole, conditioned by the cultural and political heritage of European imperialism, can we investigate these distinctive cultures and the historical societies that sustained them? If such an undertaking is currently necessary indeed, I believe, it is imperative for progressive intellectuals in the West, it is by no means certain that such inquirers…
Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Following on from Roy Bhaskar's first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory-and thence emancipatory-critique. Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary accounts of science as stemming from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a syste…
Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism
Deconstruction in America
Boundless Context: Problems in Bakhtin's Linguistics
Historic Structures: The Prague School Project, 1928-1946
Politics and Theory: Althusser and Sartre
This paper originated in response to the charge brought against Althusser by a variety of commentators in France, Britain, and the United States, most of them aligned with the left, that althusserian theory is in league with or culminates in or was the product of stalinist politics.' This charge seemed unwarranted, or at least unsubstantiated, and it led me to attempt a reconstruction of the political and philosophical conjuncture of Althusser's …
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx
With the publication of Specters of in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today s most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive pr…
The National Question: Said, Ahmad, Jameson
Textual Politics: Foucault and Derrida
As criticism and theory come more and more into the limelight in literary studies, as the number of journals, books, and conferences devoted to literary theory and method increases geometrically each year, and as the lessons and methods of all this critical inquiry' seep into pedagogical practice and produce an even greater number of students who will soon themselves be teachers implementing a similar pedagogy in their own classrooms as all these…
Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays: (1972-1980)
Chance certainties
Chance Certainties Michael Sprinker Werner Hamacher, Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan, translated by Peter Fenves. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. 393 pages. One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. —Nietzsche Philosphers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. —Anon. Werner Hamacher cites the…
The Legacies of Althusser
Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s
Gerard Manley Hopkins on the Origin of Language
Criticism as Reaction
Hermeneutic Hesitation: The Stuttering Text
Textual Politics: Foucault and Derrida
As criticism and theory come more and more into the limelight in literary studies, as the number of journals, books, and conferences devoted to literary theory and method increases geometrically each year, and as the lessons and methods of all this critical inquiry' seep into pedagogical practice and produce an even greater number of students who will soon themselves be teachers implementing a similar pedagogy in their own classrooms as all these…
Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne
Gerard Manley Hopkins on the Origin of Language
The Part and the Whole
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
w h i c h e x t e n d e d e v e n i n t o m y p s t . . . n d d o u b t l e s s . . . t o w h t m i g h t b e t o . . . t o . . . come . . . t o co me . . . . ( I I , 5) The certainty of the cngito ergo sum is the error of Descartes and all philosophers who as philosphes sans mains et sans yeux overlook the fundamental role of the body in their systems, and thereby forfeit that certainty of present things as well as of present cohumanity, certain…
Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays: (1972-1980)
Goethe's Wisdom Literature: A Study in Aesthetic Transmutation
Historic Structures: The Prague School Project, 1928-1946
Politics and Theory: Althusser and Sartre
This paper originated in response to the charge brought against Althusser by a variety of commentators in France, Britain, and the United States, most of them aligned with the left, that althusserian theory is in league with or culminates in or was the product of stalinist politics.' This charge seemed unwarranted, or at least unsubstantiated, and it led me to attempt a reconstruction of the political and philosophical conjuncture of Althusser's …
Deconstruction in America
Boundless Context: Problems in Bakhtin's Linguistics
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Following on from Roy Bhaskar's first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory-and thence emancipatory-critique. Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary accounts of science as stemming from an incomplete critique of positivism. It then proceeds to a syste…
Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism
Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism
This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx's brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, including those of Ruskin, G.M. Hopkins, Nietzsche and Henry James, and then to the terrain of Marxism in the concepts of history underwriting the work of Fredric Jameson and Jean-…
Reshaping the U.S. Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s
Marxism and Nationalism: Ideology and Class Struggle in Premchand's Godan
Why study the cultures of the non-Western world? And how, as products of the advanced capitalist metropole, conditioned by the cultural and political heritage of European imperialism, can we investigate these distinctive cultures and the historical societies that sustained them? If such an undertaking is currently necessary indeed, I believe, it is imperative for progressive intellectuals in the West, it is by no means certain that such inquirers…
Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties
From Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol to the underground cinema and political films, David James gives a thorough account of the growth, development, and decay of nonstudio film practices in the United States between the late fifties and the mid-seventies. Unlike other scholars who discuss these practices as totally separate from Hollywood, James argues that they were developed in various kinds of dialogue or negotiation with the commercial film ind…
Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s
The Place of Theory
Readers not yet familiar with Fredric Jameson’s corpus will find this collection of his theoretical essays a useful introduction to the major themes and methods that have dominated his work for two decades. From the groundbreaking programmatic text, ‘Metacommentary’ (1971), to his more recent writings on postmodernism (represented
Proust: Philosophy of the Novel
The Royal Road: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science
What is a consequent Marxist view of the history and philosophy of science? Reference to the work of Marx and Engels (or even of Lenin) will not yield a satisfactory answer, although certain signposts are evident. For example, there is the famous observation on method in the Introduction
British Literature and British Empire
Research Article| May 01 1992 British Literature and British Empire Michael Sprinker Michael Sprinker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (53): 122–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-53-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Sprinker; British Literature and British Empire. Radical History Review 1 May 1992; 1992…
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