Michael Portal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Portal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Portal |
| SIGNATURE | PORTAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1991-3742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Context, Constraint, and Life
Holly Langstaff, Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot
Blanchot, the Desert, and Prophesised Disasters
This article concerns Maurice Blanchot's interpretation of the Book of Exodus and the ‘disaster’ of the shattered tablets that precipitated the Jewish people's wandering in the desert for 40 years. I show how Blanchot's recovery of a certain Jewish tradition and idiom may both motivate and inform our ecological reconsideration of the meaning of the ‘without’: of our being today ‘without’ horizon or future, of that spectre of a world ‘without’ us.…
Introduction to ‘Session Six’ of ‘Donner – le temps’ ( Given Time vol. 2 )
Gifts for No One or Anyone
In Parages, Jacques Derrida writes that the ‘Donner – le temps’ seminar ‘led up to’ a study of Maurice Blanchot’s La folie du jour. That study is the improvised fourteenth session of Donner le temps II. Derrida turns to La folie du jour to treat in more explicit terms the structure of the ‘ récit’ which was particularly relevant to his reading of Charles Baudelaire’s récit ‘La fausse monnaie’ earlier in the seminar, but which is almost entirely a…
Special Issue Introduction
Language by Birth and Nationality by Death
Most countries provide some form of nationality or citizenship either by birthright or inheritance. This paper accepts Jacques Derrida's invitation to imagine nationality or citizenship otherwise, this time by death and burial: you are from where you die or are buried. I read Derrida's invitation alongside his four studies of Martin Heidegger's use of "Geschlecht" to argue that we ought to reconsider the relationship between the nation and (its) …
Peregrine Identity
Published here, for the first time in any language, are excerpts from an early, markedly different version of Schürmann’s celebrated book Wandering Joy: Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Philosophy (1972). Schürmann submitted this early version to the Dominican school of theology Le Saulchoir as a final thesis in 1969, titling it Peregrine Identity: The Concept of Detachment in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons. In it, Schürmann focuses on Eckhart’s prea…
The Asymmetry of the Face
Introduction to Levinas’s “The Asymmetry of the Face”
France Guwy and Emmanuel Levinas discuss the relationship between “the Bible and philosophy.” Levinas explains that he never “experienced” a contradiction between the two, and that they both aim at the same thing: meaning outside of immanence. Such transcendence, Levinas argues, is impossible for the Spinozist
Gerundive thinking in Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile illuminates being in “gerundive time.” The gerundive tense (which is similar to the infinitive tense in English) captures how our being is always already “suspended” between worlds and meanings—how our being is a “non-final verb.” Schuback considers such existence in the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, and Clarice Lispector. Of the three thinkers, Lispector’s writing best reveals how exist…
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Gerundive thinking in Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile illuminates being in “gerundive time.” The gerundive tense (which is similar to the infinitive tense in English) captures how our being is always already “suspended” between worlds and meanings—how our being is a “non-final verb.” Schuback considers such existence in the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, and Clarice Lispector. Of the three thinkers, Lispector’s writing best reveals how exist…
Peregrine Identity
Published here, for the first time in any language, are excerpts from an early, markedly different version of Schürmann’s celebrated book Wandering Joy: Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Philosophy (1972). Schürmann submitted this early version to the Dominican school of theology Le Saulchoir as a final thesis in 1969, titling it Peregrine Identity: The Concept of Detachment in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons. In it, Schürmann focuses on Eckhart’s prea…
The Asymmetry of the Face
Introduction to Levinas’s “The Asymmetry of the Face”
France Guwy and Emmanuel Levinas discuss the relationship between “the Bible and philosophy.” Levinas explains that he never “experienced” a contradiction between the two, and that they both aim at the same thing: meaning outside of immanence. Such transcendence, Levinas argues, is impossible for the Spinozist
Introduction to ‘Session Six’ of ‘Donner – le temps’ ( Given Time vol. 2 )
Gifts for No One or Anyone
In Parages, Jacques Derrida writes that the ‘Donner – le temps’ seminar ‘led up to’ a study of Maurice Blanchot’s La folie du jour. That study is the improvised fourteenth session of Donner le temps II. Derrida turns to La folie du jour to treat in more explicit terms the structure of the ‘ récit’ which was particularly relevant to his reading of Charles Baudelaire’s récit ‘La fausse monnaie’ earlier in the seminar, but which is almost entirely a…
Special Issue Introduction
Language by Birth and Nationality by Death
Most countries provide some form of nationality or citizenship either by birthright or inheritance. This paper accepts Jacques Derrida's invitation to imagine nationality or citizenship otherwise, this time by death and burial: you are from where you die or are buried. I read Derrida's invitation alongside his four studies of Martin Heidegger's use of "Geschlecht" to argue that we ought to reconsider the relationship between the nation and (its) …
Context, Constraint, and Life
Holly Langstaff, Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot
Blanchot, the Desert, and Prophesised Disasters
This article concerns Maurice Blanchot's interpretation of the Book of Exodus and the ‘disaster’ of the shattered tablets that precipitated the Jewish people's wandering in the desert for 40 years. I show how Blanchot's recovery of a certain Jewish tradition and idiom may both motivate and inform our ecological reconsideration of the meaning of the ‘without’: of our being today ‘without’ horizon or future, of that spectre of a world ‘without’ us.…
Philosophy (8 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Face (sociological concept) (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works)