Jacques Lezra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1367472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacques Lezra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacques |
| FAMILY NAME | Lezra |
| SIGNATURE | LEZRA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8017-784X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic
Wild Materialism speaks to three related questions in contemporary political philosophy. How, if different social interests and demands are constitutively antagonistic, can social unity emerge out of heterogeneity? Does such unity require corresponding universals, and, if so, what are they, where are they found, or how are they built? Finally, how must the concept of democracy be revised in response to economic globalization, state and nonstate t…
The Schema of Institution
Regress threatens throughout Lyotard’s Differend, especially where the argument appears to make normative ethical or political claims. How a term, a case or an example “links onto” a phrase serves as a way of examining how instituting can be non-regressively grounded, and with what consequences for abstract political subjectivity. The essay offers an alternative to liberal philosophical (Arendt, Nussbaum) and jurisprudential (Marbury v. Madison) …
A Sadean Community
One Badiou? Parodies of Philosophy
Alain Badiou’s Seminar: The One – Descartes, Plato, Kant (1983-1984) inaugurates "The Seminar," the collection of transcribed and edited seminars that Badiou chose for publication from the sessions he held over his career. To its place opening "The Seminar" other, perhaps more important functions should be added, however. The Seminar: The One serves, with the companion seminar on the Infinite (1984-1985), as a bridge between Badiou’s Theory of th…
Du Rien-Pour-Nous Que La Mort: Derrida Épicure
Le séminaire “La vie la mort” de Derrida opère, comme d’avance motivé par ses suites et comme contresigné par ce nom qui n’apparaît pas—le nom d’Épicure—un virage vers un matérialisme non productif, non représentationnel, dépourvu en quelque sorte de statut ontologique, voire non ontologisable, triomphant, normatif, voué à une économie de la cause. Nietzsche, lecteur antagonique d’Épicure (Lettre à Ménécée: “Accoutume-toi à considérer que la mort…
Du rien-pour-nous que la mort: Derrida Épicure
Le séminaire “La vie la mort” de Derrida opère, comme d’avance motivé par ses suites et comme contresigné par ce nom qui n’apparaît pas—le nom d’Épicure—un virage vers un matérialisme non productif, non représentationnel, dépourvu en quelque sorte de statut ontologique, voire non ontologisable, triomphant, normatif, voué à une économie de la cause. Nietzsche, lecteur antagonique d’Épicure (Lettre à Ménécée: “Accoutume-toi à considérer que la mort…
Art and Class Struggle
What do we need to know about “art” or “class struggle” before considering their relation to one another? Could you describe a specific work or text that might serve as an illustration of class struggle or as an exploration of the problem of representing it? Let us say that visual art, broadly speaking, does express the worldview of the dominant class. What kind of art then expresses the worldview of, say, hedge fund managers? Does the dialectic …
Art and class struggle: The Diagrammatic Imaginary
Il est peu contest que la lutte des classes soit le matre mot de la thorie marxiste
El concepto que me consta: Constant performance
Abordo en este ensayo la cuestión de la intermedialidad, en concreto –y valiéndome como ejemplo de uno de los medios más efímeros y deleznables, el teatro– cómo su misma condición de performance efímera, deleznable e inconstante puede servir para generar conceptos, o paraconceptos, de subjetividades políticas: crea conatos de constancia. Los operadores mayores son los conceptos de performatividad, intraducibilidad (entre lenguas y medios) y conti…
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Malêtre: De l'Axiome De La Traduction
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On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology
This book traces to Karl Marx's earliest writings on the Epicurean tradition, a subterranean, Lucretian practice that this book calls “necrophilological translation.” “Translation” here is extensively used and covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marx'…
On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology
History as tragedy
[... And this means changing tragic history into ethical history in the West. What is the tragic origin of our history? Why has that origin been tragic – and why, in consequence, is it the threshold
Uncountable Matter
Humanism returns for the New Materialism in ‘nonhuman’ form as matter. New ‘matter’ and new materialism thus fashion the world to human advantage in the gesture of abjecting us. They commit us to the humanism of masochists. They offer an animistic and paradisiacal realm of immediate transactions, human to human, human to and with nonhuman, face to face, world without end. The impulse is tactically and strategically useful. But ‘matter’ will not h…
On the Nature of Marx’s Things
"It goes without saying that but little use can be made of Lucretius" [Es versteht sich, dass Lucretius nur wenig benutzt werden kann].1 So, by way of preface or prophylaxis, opens the fourth of Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy, composed around 1839 as Marx was preparing his doctoral dissertation. A long list of citations from De Rerum Natura (DRN) follows, and then Lucretius is put to use—as Plutarch's antagonist, in the long battle over…
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines
Lucretius and modernity: Epicurean encounters across time and disciplines
This untranslatability which is not one
Translatability in natural languages today supports, and can only be understood in the context of, economic globalization, and the universalization of market logic. 'Untranslatability', as it is most often construed, does not provide a critical alternative to this logic: it bolsters it. A different account of untranslatability (and, by extension, of what it means for expressions in natural languages to be 'translatable') is required: this essay s…
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters. This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dase…
The Animal in Translation
“The Animal in Translation” shows, through analyses of works by Quine, Hearne, and Derrida, how animality studies and translation studies serve to limit one another, but by the same stroke disclose aspects of each field which remain otherwise obscure. Each provides for the other a way of avoiding the disabling conceptual traps set by seemingly necessary essentialisms, linguistic and species-ist. Animality studies and translation studies and theor…
Geography and Marlowe
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The Pleasures of Infanticide
Research Article| June 01 2010 The Pleasures of Infanticide Jacques Lezra Jacques Lezra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 153–180. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jacques Lezra; The Pleasures of Infanticide. Qui Parle 1 June 2010; 19 (1): 153–180. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0153 Download citation fi…
A New Cultural Studies, Or, Fratricide
The Infinite Contradiction
La mora encantada: Covarrubias in the soul of Spain
One Badiou? Parodies of Philosophy
Alain Badiou’s Seminar: The One – Descartes, Plato, Kant (1983-1984) inaugurates "The Seminar," the collection of transcribed and edited seminars that Badiou chose for publication from the sessions he held over his career. To its place opening "The Seminar" other, perhaps more important functions should be added, however. The Seminar: The One serves, with the companion seminar on the Infinite (1984-1985), as a bridge between Badiou’s Theory of th…
Uncountable Matter
Humanism returns for the New Materialism in ‘nonhuman’ form as matter. New ‘matter’ and new materialism thus fashion the world to human advantage in the gesture of abjecting us. They commit us to the humanism of masochists. They offer an animistic and paradisiacal realm of immediate transactions, human to human, human to and with nonhuman, face to face, world without end. The impulse is tactically and strategically useful. But ‘matter’ will not h…
Pirating Reading: The Apperance of History in Measure for Measure
Barnardine: Friar, not I. I have been drinking hard all night, and will have more time to prepare me, or they shall beat out my brains with billets. I will not consent to die this day, that's certain. Duke: 0 sir, you must.... Barnardine: I swear I will not die to-day for any man's persuasion. Duke: But hear youBarnardine: Not a word. If you have anything to say to me, come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day. -Measure for Measure, 4.3.51-61
The Infinite Contradiction
Spontaneous Labor
La mora encantada: Covarrubias in the soul of Spain
Unrelated Passions
jacques lezra, Professor of English and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of Unspeakable Subjects:The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (Stanford University Press, 1997) and the editor of Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (Yale French Studies, 1995). His translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight (Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1991) was awarded a pen Wr…
Introduction: Distracted Republics
Marranes que nous sommes »
A Spaniard Is No Englishman”: The Ghost of Spain and the British Imaginary
The prevailing anthropological understanding of mimesis, this essay argues, is inadequate to the study of early modern cultural exchange, in particular of the ways in which literary cultures imagine themselves in the lexicons provided by other national traditions. The idiom of haunting–both in its psychoanalytic and in its Elizabethan and Jacobean iterations–provides a preferable account of the temporality of cultural exchange, of the conflicting…
The Pleasures of Infanticide
Research Article| June 01 2010 The Pleasures of Infanticide Jacques Lezra Jacques Lezra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 153–180. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jacques Lezra; The Pleasures of Infanticide. Qui Parle 1 June 2010; 19 (1): 153–180. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0153 Download citation fi…
A New Cultural Studies, Or, Fratricide
Geography and Marlowe
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters. This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dase…
The Animal in Translation
“The Animal in Translation” shows, through analyses of works by Quine, Hearne, and Derrida, how animality studies and translation studies serve to limit one another, but by the same stroke disclose aspects of each field which remain otherwise obscure. Each provides for the other a way of avoiding the disabling conceptual traps set by seemingly necessary essentialisms, linguistic and species-ist. Animality studies and translation studies and theor…
This untranslatability which is not one
Translatability in natural languages today supports, and can only be understood in the context of, economic globalization, and the universalization of market logic. 'Untranslatability', as it is most often construed, does not provide a critical alternative to this logic: it bolsters it. A different account of untranslatability (and, by extension, of what it means for expressions in natural languages to be 'translatable') is required: this essay s…
On the Nature of Marx’s Things
"It goes without saying that but little use can be made of Lucretius" [Es versteht sich, dass Lucretius nur wenig benutzt werden kann].1 So, by way of preface or prophylaxis, opens the fourth of Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy, composed around 1839 as Marx was preparing his doctoral dissertation. A long list of citations from De Rerum Natura (DRN) follows, and then Lucretius is put to use—as Plutarch's antagonist, in the long battle over…
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines
Lucretius and modernity: Epicurean encounters across time and disciplines
Uncountable Matter
Humanism returns for the New Materialism in ‘nonhuman’ form as matter. New ‘matter’ and new materialism thus fashion the world to human advantage in the gesture of abjecting us. They commit us to the humanism of masochists. They offer an animistic and paradisiacal realm of immediate transactions, human to human, human to and with nonhuman, face to face, world without end. The impulse is tactically and strategically useful. But ‘matter’ will not h…
On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology
This book traces to Karl Marx's earliest writings on the Epicurean tradition, a subterranean, Lucretian practice that this book calls “necrophilological translation.” “Translation” here is extensively used and covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marx'…
On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology
History as tragedy
[... And this means changing tragic history into ethical history in the West. What is the tragic origin of our history? Why has that origin been tragic – and why, in consequence, is it the threshold
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Malêtre: De l'Axiome De La Traduction
est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Du Rien-Pour-Nous Que La Mort: Derrida Épicure
Le séminaire “La vie la mort” de Derrida opère, comme d’avance motivé par ses suites et comme contresigné par ce nom qui n’apparaît pas—le nom d’Épicure—un virage vers un matérialisme non productif, non représentationnel, dépourvu en quelque sorte de statut ontologique, voire non ontologisable, triomphant, normatif, voué à une économie de la cause. Nietzsche, lecteur antagonique d’Épicure (Lettre à Ménécée: “Accoutume-toi à considérer que la mort…
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