Joseph Albernaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Albernaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Albernaz |
| SIGNATURE | ALBERNAZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University, New York, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism – revolution and radicalism, poetry and “powerful feeli…
Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community
What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of "groundless community," while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers in…
The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn Lesjak
Reviewed by: The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn Lesjak Joseph Albernaz LESJAK, CAROLYN. The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $90.00 hardcover; $30.00 softcover. The significance of the enclosure of common lands for English literary culture of the long nineteenth century—indeed, for the literatures of the British I…
Indices of Departure
This text on Jean-Luc Nancy engages his interest in the motif of departure to reexamine and register the importance of some of his central contributions. Along with returning to Nancy’s singular rendering of key concepts like finitude, sharing, communism, and resurrection, the essay stages a passing encounter between Nancy’s thought of parting and the poetry of Walt Whitman
Abolition, Black Ultraradicalism, and the Generation of the General Strike
This essay unearths an alternative genealogy of the general strike by tracing the concept's first articulation back to the struggle against Atlantic racial slavery. The famed originator of the general strike idea, the English radical William Benbow, turns out to have adapted the revolutionary program of his associate Robert Wedderburn, a Jamaican-born Black abolitionist and “ultraradical” communist. Wedderburn's 1817 abolitionist text on the gene…
Introduction: Friedrich Hölderlin’s “ Communism of Spirits ”
Communism of Spirits
The Missing Word of History: Hölderlin and “Communism”
Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology
Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularit…
The Commons: Ruin and Romance
The Sovereignty of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (After Blumenberg)
Fragmentary Domesticity: Wordsworth's Image of the Common
This essay takes up an impasse in articulating the relation of parts and wholes in discussions around the term "Anthropocene" as an entry point into understanding the complexities and afterlives of Wordsworth's poetics of the common (and vice versa), where "common" encompasses both what is ordinary and what is shared. Probing the conceptual registers of the figure of catachresis, the affordances of the poetic fragment, and the intricate and intim…
Speculum of the Other Cene
In September 2017 the Oakland gallery Pro Arts featured Past Presence, a joint exhibition of separately produced but thematically linked works by the artists Indira Allegra and Christopher R. Martin. What tied the two artists' concerns together was precisely the question of the tie itself: the weave, the fold, the thread, and the tangle. As the description of the exhibition read, Past Presence was a "response to the politicized trauma in Black co…
The Missing Word of History: Hölderlin and “Communism”
Fragmentary Domesticity: Wordsworth's Image of the Common
This essay takes up an impasse in articulating the relation of parts and wholes in discussions around the term "Anthropocene" as an entry point into understanding the complexities and afterlives of Wordsworth's poetics of the common (and vice versa), where "common" encompasses both what is ordinary and what is shared. Probing the conceptual registers of the figure of catachresis, the affordances of the poetic fragment, and the intricate and intim…
Speculum of the Other Cene
In September 2017 the Oakland gallery Pro Arts featured Past Presence, a joint exhibition of separately produced but thematically linked works by the artists Indira Allegra and Christopher R. Martin. What tied the two artists' concerns together was precisely the question of the tie itself: the weave, the fold, the thread, and the tangle. As the description of the exhibition read, Past Presence was a "response to the politicized trauma in Black co…
The Sovereignty of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (After Blumenberg)
Fragmentary Domesticity: Wordsworth's Image of the Common
This essay takes up an impasse in articulating the relation of parts and wholes in discussions around the term "Anthropocene" as an entry point into understanding the complexities and afterlives of Wordsworth's poetics of the common (and vice versa), where "common" encompasses both what is ordinary and what is shared. Probing the conceptual registers of the figure of catachresis, the affordances of the poetic fragment, and the intricate and intim…
Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology
Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularit…
The Commons: Ruin and Romance
The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn Lesjak
Reviewed by: The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn Lesjak Joseph Albernaz LESJAK, CAROLYN. The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $90.00 hardcover; $30.00 softcover. The significance of the enclosure of common lands for English literary culture of the long nineteenth century—indeed, for the literatures of the British I…
Indices of Departure
This text on Jean-Luc Nancy engages his interest in the motif of departure to reexamine and register the importance of some of his central contributions. Along with returning to Nancy’s singular rendering of key concepts like finitude, sharing, communism, and resurrection, the essay stages a passing encounter between Nancy’s thought of parting and the poetry of Walt Whitman
Abolition, Black Ultraradicalism, and the Generation of the General Strike
This essay unearths an alternative genealogy of the general strike by tracing the concept's first articulation back to the struggle against Atlantic racial slavery. The famed originator of the general strike idea, the English radical William Benbow, turns out to have adapted the revolutionary program of his associate Robert Wedderburn, a Jamaican-born Black abolitionist and “ultraradical” communist. Wedderburn's 1817 abolitionist text on the gene…
Introduction: Friedrich Hölderlin’s “ Communism of Spirits ”
Communism of Spirits
The Missing Word of History: Hölderlin and “Communism”
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism – revolution and radicalism, poetry and “powerful feeli…
Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community
What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of "groundless community," while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers in…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Communism (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)