Eric Laursen
Biographic Data
| ID | 225212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Laursen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Laursen |
| SIGNATURE | LAURSEN E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The reporter's responsibility
This guest editorial explores the parallel ethical responsibilities and institutional challenges faced by anthropologists and journalists, highlighting their shared commitment to reporting faithfully on the complexities of global conflicts, cultural transformations and sensitive social issues. It examines the pressures both professions encounter from institutional review boards and media sponsors, which can impede their ability to conduct in-dept…
Bad Words Are Not Allowed
In Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (Co6aibe cepOqe [1925])1 Professor Preobrazhensky inserts part of the brain of Klim, an alcoholic and criminal, into the brain of a stray dog.2 The professor claims to be concerned the question of eugenics, about the improvement of human nature [o6 y iy'i IIIueHHH IeJIOBelecKoH npHpOAbII],3 but his experiment improves neither human nor canine nature. Instead, the dog's character is gradually replaced by that o…
A New Enigmatic Language
AlthoughCementwas a model for later socialist realism, Katerina Clark has argued that Gleb Chumalov does not achieve consciousness, a requirement for later heroes, but instead remains spontaneous. In this essay, Eric Laursen argues against Clark's widely accepted interpretation. By introducing the idea of instinct (class, worker, revolutionary), which Anna Krylova has shown to be central to Bolshevik thought in the early years of the twentieth ce…
Becoming the Serpent
In scholarship on Fedor Sologub's fiction, much attention has been paid to the young person on the brink of adulthood. The most common view is that the child, confronted with adult sexuality, must choose between two extremes: become like the coarse and banal adults who surround him or her, or into death.1 Given Sologub's reputation as decadent writer, many scholars assert that Sologub's children reject earthly banality in favor of decadent, sensu…
Exile
The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modern life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community - the experience of exile. No one in the modern world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these an…
Memory in Nabokov's Mary
In Vladimir Nabokov's first novel, Mary (1925; published, 1926), the Russian emigre Ganin spends seven days remembering the title character, who will soon arrive in Berlin. At the end of the novel we learn that his mental re-creation of Mary has provided Ganin with a fresh, loving eye, which in turn enables him at last to leave Berlin. The relatively sparse scholarship on Mary has produced quite divergent opinions on Ganin's newly acquired vision…
Transformation as Revelation
The reporter's responsibility
This guest editorial explores the parallel ethical responsibilities and institutional challenges faced by anthropologists and journalists, highlighting their shared commitment to reporting faithfully on the complexities of global conflicts, cultural transformations and sensitive social issues. It examines the pressures both professions encounter from institutional review boards and media sponsors, which can impede their ability to conduct in-dept…
Bad Words Are Not Allowed
In Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (Co6aibe cepOqe [1925])1 Professor Preobrazhensky inserts part of the brain of Klim, an alcoholic and criminal, into the brain of a stray dog.2 The professor claims to be concerned the question of eugenics, about the improvement of human nature [o6 y iy'i IIIueHHH IeJIOBelecKoH npHpOAbII],3 but his experiment improves neither human nor canine nature. Instead, the dog's character is gradually replaced by that o…
A New Enigmatic Language
AlthoughCementwas a model for later socialist realism, Katerina Clark has argued that Gleb Chumalov does not achieve consciousness, a requirement for later heroes, but instead remains spontaneous. In this essay, Eric Laursen argues against Clark's widely accepted interpretation. By introducing the idea of instinct (class, worker, revolutionary), which Anna Krylova has shown to be central to Bolshevik thought in the early years of the twentieth ce…
Exile
The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modern life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community - the experience of exile. No one in the modern world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these an…
Transformation as Revelation
Transformation as Revelation
Exile
The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modern life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community - the experience of exile. No one in the modern world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these an…
Memory in Nabokov's Mary
In Vladimir Nabokov's first novel, Mary (1925; published, 1926), the Russian emigre Ganin spends seven days remembering the title character, who will soon arrive in Berlin. At the end of the novel we learn that his mental re-creation of Mary has provided Ganin with a fresh, loving eye, which in turn enables him at last to leave Berlin. The relatively sparse scholarship on Mary has produced quite divergent opinions on Ganin's newly acquired vision…
Becoming the Serpent
In scholarship on Fedor Sologub's fiction, much attention has been paid to the young person on the brink of adulthood. The most common view is that the child, confronted with adult sexuality, must choose between two extremes: become like the coarse and banal adults who surround him or her, or into death.1 Given Sologub's reputation as decadent writer, many scholars assert that Sologub's children reject earthly banality in favor of decadent, sensu…
A New Enigmatic Language
AlthoughCementwas a model for later socialist realism, Katerina Clark has argued that Gleb Chumalov does not achieve consciousness, a requirement for later heroes, but instead remains spontaneous. In this essay, Eric Laursen argues against Clark's widely accepted interpretation. By introducing the idea of instinct (class, worker, revolutionary), which Anna Krylova has shown to be central to Bolshevik thought in the early years of the twentieth ce…
Bad Words Are Not Allowed
In Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (Co6aibe cepOqe [1925])1 Professor Preobrazhensky inserts part of the brain of Klim, an alcoholic and criminal, into the brain of a stray dog.2 The professor claims to be concerned the question of eugenics, about the improvement of human nature [o6 y iy'i IIIueHHH IeJIOBelecKoH npHpOAbII],3 but his experiment improves neither human nor canine nature. Instead, the dog's character is gradually replaced by that o…
The reporter's responsibility
This guest editorial explores the parallel ethical responsibilities and institutional challenges faced by anthropologists and journalists, highlighting their shared commitment to reporting faithfully on the complexities of global conflicts, cultural transformations and sensitive social issues. It examines the pressures both professions encounter from institutional review boards and media sponsors, which can impede their ability to conduct in-dept…
Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Chemistry (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works)